Jawed Taiman takes a distinct look at Afghanistan and lets the Afghan people have their say. En route through the different provinces, through urban and rural regions, in discussion with intellectuals and simple folk, politicians and Taliban fighters a multifaceted picture emerges of a country that is often portrayed as incomprehensible.
During World War II, 7,000 Filipino Americans volunteered their services to the U.S. Army and helped liberate their homeland from Japanese occupation. Director Noel M. Izon captures their stories through the voices of the veterans themselves – only half of whom are still alive today – and delivers touching personal accounts of the men’s contributions and sacrifices during the war. Despite the fact that they endured a bleak, racist prewar climate and were not even considered U.S. citizens, these individuals rallied to join the war effort and cement their rightful place in American history.
WWII through the memories of a simple underground soldier, who struggles to keep his senses while caught up in a meaningless bloodshed. Moments of everyday life during three years of war inspired by real diary.
In one of the most dangerous missions of the war, a group os O.S.S. officers, dressed as Nazi platoon, infiltrated Germany without help from the underground - Their mission, capture Adolf Hitler! Acclaimed author Joseph Persico uncovers the facts behind "Operation Iron Cross"
With testimony from the UK, the US, the Commonwealth and Germany, 'D-Day: The Shortest Day' documents the meticulous planning leading up to the world's biggest amphibious invasion, the terror and triumph of the landings and the bitterness of the fighting in the days that followed.
This is the never-before-told story of America's secret Nazi prison camps. German soldiers captured right off the battlefield were shipped to America, except what was supposed to be a few thousand turned into a flood of 7,200 a week, 35,000 men a month. Overwhelmed with the logistics as well as the war, the government decided to let these prisoners police themselves.
In this mock video game, we play the filmmaker, as he brings us face to face with the armed warriors of the New People's Army, which the CIA dubs a foreign terrorist organization in the Philippines.
For the first time, the U.S. military has granted permission to an outside film crew to document the wrecks of Kwajalein Atoll -- a little-known outpost in the Marshall Islands.