From the early race to build gliders to the D-Day invasion at Normandy and Nazi Germany’s final surrender, Silent Wings – The American Glider Pilots of WWII narrated by Hal Holbrook, reveals the critical role gliders played in World War II offensives. Through rare archival footage and photographs,更多

The Fate Of Europe: 1944 saw the high tide of Nazi conquest ebbing as the previously besieged Russian Forces pushed outwards to recapture vital seaports in the Black Sea including Sevastopol and Odessa. In the west, preparations were underway for a mass invasion through the south of France which w更多

DVD - It's eight wing-mounted Colt-Brownings spitting flame, the Hawker Hurricane swooped to dispatch over two-thirds of all enemy aircraft destroyed in the Battle of Britain. Courageous squadron commander Douglas Bader, I4 - kill hero Cobber Kain, Ginger Lacey - the top Battle of Britain ace with更多

DVD - "So long as the English tongue survives, the worst "Dunkerque" will be spoken with reverence... The glowing language, with which the New York Times greeted the extraordinary rescue of the beleaguered British Expeditionary Force from otherwise certain defeat and captivity on the continent, wa更多

Containing footage from the UK's trouble spots and riots around the world, it is a shocking but true look at the many moods of confrontation - the mindless rampage, the peaceful protest that gets out of control, the minor incident that suddenly turns in to a state of emergency. See what it's like 更多

NIGHT OF THE DRAGON

Narrated by Charlton Heston, this documentary goes on operations with the 7th Division as they come to terms with the mission that lies ahead of them. It explains the reasons for US involvement in a war so far from their home borders and what they aim to achieve through both m更多

From his birth in the Corsican capital of Ajaccio in August 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte seems to have been earmarked for greatness. There was little during his early years to suggest as much however, for he came from an ordinary if well-to-do family and had a difficult schooling in France. But joinin更多

In January 1863 during the American Civil War, Unionist General Burnside attempted to retake the town of Fredericksburg committing 75,000 troops to the task. His endeavour would go down in history not as a military triumph but as a debacle known as the three day 'Mud March'. Heavy rains turned 更多

The stalemate of trench warfare in World War I was finally broken by the tank and self-propelled gun, and Germany capitulated. These weapons came fully into their own in World War II, and combined with the tactics of Blitzkrieg, gave Germany early supremacy. Ground support aircraft such as the 更多

There are over 10,000 islands within the Pacific Ocean located between Asia and America, the vast majority of which possess little geopolitical importance in periods of peace - but during the Second World War a good measure of these outposts suffered through the dismal experience of armed confli更多