A B-52 bomber crashes and burns, killing one crew member, and destroying the four weapons the bomber carried, leading to some radioactive contamination that required a cleanup operation monitored by the Danish government.
In the 14th-century, as the Silk Road crumbles and rival factions tear the land apart, fearless warrior Timur emerges from exile. Stripped of everything, he fights to unite the fractured kingdoms, using strategy and sheer will to carve an empire from chaos. Undefeated in battle and widely regarded as one of history’s greatest military leaders and tacticians, not to mention one of its most brutal, Timur would found the Timurid Empire, which ruled over modern-day Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asia.
“There was excitement in the air,” says Donga, now in his late twenties, describing his feelings when the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi’s rule broke out in 2011. He was 19, living in Misrata, and boldly went to film the fighting with a friend. A decade later, in a hotel in Istanbul, where he has been living since he was wounded in battle, he looks back on the past ten years through excerpts from his videos. And he reflects on how that period has affected him.
When an international military treaty fell apart in the mid 1930s, America rebounded by building the most legendary battleships ever constructed; the Iowa class of battleship. USS Iowa BB-61 was the lead ship of the class and was of service for nearly 50 years. Ultimately, an on board catastrophe cut her service short, but her story continues today as the Iowa is a living museum. Together, veterans and historians tell her stories of tragedy and triumph.
How the advance of a column of tanks is stopped by the ultimate war machine in the hands of an unrelenting general. A statement from the heart against the rapidly changing world political stage.
As war rages outside the walls of their apartment in Beirut, Lebanon, a family strives to carry on with life as normal while finding a way to say goodbye to their home.
This drama tells the story of Irish insurgents and the captured British soldiers whom they are assigned to guard. While confined to a remote farmhouse the foursome enjoy card playing, jig dancing, and a great deal of amiable bickering. Throughout the conviviality, however, Barney Callahan is haunted by the knowledge that reprisals will be in order if the Irish harm their British captives.
Join Michael and Anthony a queer couple who have just moved into their first home. But after finding letters in the attic from a WW1 soldier named Tommy O'Neill, Michael wants to learn what life was like for gay men in the 1900s compared to now.