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In October 1944, U.S. troops invaded Leyte Gulf in the Philippines. It was the opening move to recapture the Philippines, occupied by the Japanese after their Pacific victories in 1941 and '42.

In the late summer of 52 BC, Julius Caesar, Rome's most brilliant general was pitted against the great Gallic chieftain Vercingetorix. Fifty thousand Roman soldiers came face-to-face against a quarter of a million Gallic warriors.

The Civil War is thought of as a conflict between North and South. But the West figured into it, too. There were more than 2,000 battles west of the Mississippi River--action stretched clear to the California coast.

Seventy years after the end of World War II, hundreds of miles of tunnels built by the Nazis may still be protecting Hitler's final secrets. When explorers Mike Scott and Luke Mahoney uncover a hidden Nazi document that reveals a sealed Nazi underworld, they search these unexplored tunnel complexes that might hold the answers.

The Civil War is thought of as a conflict between North and South. But the West figured into it, too. There were more than 2,000 battles west of the Mississippi River--action stretched clear to the California coast.

Seventy years after the end of World War II, hundreds of miles of tunnels built by the Nazis may still be protecting Hitler's final secrets. When explorers Mike Scott and Luke Mahoney uncover a hidden Nazi document that reveals a sealed Nazi underworld, they search these unexplored tunnel complexes that might hold the answers.

In October 1944, U.S. troops invaded Leyte Gulf in the Philippines. It was the opening move to recapture the Philippines, occupied by the Japanese after their Pacific victories in 1941 and '42.

In the late summer of 52 BC, Julius Caesar, Rome's most brilliant general was pitted against the great Gallic chieftain Vercingetorix. Fifty thousand Roman soldiers came face-to-face against a quarter of a million Gallic warriors.

The Civil War is thought of as a conflict between North and South. But the West figured into it, too. There were more than 2,000 battles west of the Mississippi River--action stretched clear to the California coast.

Seventy years after the end of World War II, hundreds of miles of tunnels built by the Nazis may still be protecting Hitler's final secrets. When explorers Mike Scott and Luke Mahoney uncover a hidden Nazi document that reveals a sealed Nazi underworld, they search these unexplored tunnel complexes that might hold the answers.

Marking the anniversary of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon in wartime and the end of World War II, this special will utilize never-before-seen archival footage, long-suppressed color film from the immediate aftermath of the bomb and overlooked audio testimony from core protagonists and victims, to provide a unique and highly personal understanding of the most devastating experiment in human history. Told entirely from the first-person perspective of leaders, physicists, soldiers and survivors, the documentary presents the moral, scientific and military conundrums of the atomic bomb as felt by those closest to it.

July 1-3, 1863: Over three hot days, Union and Confederate forces clashed in and around a small Pennsylvania town.

From birth of the nuclear age with the immolation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, WWII's end, the Berlin Air Lift, creation of the Strategic Air Command, the Korean War, the Cold War, the missile race and the doctrine of mutual destruction.

Is the historical portrayal of the attack on Pearl Harbor as seen in movies accurate?

Doug Scott, a field archaeologist, is acknowledged as one of the premier experts on Custer's Last Stand. Scott has always wanted to see this dark moment in American military history through the eyes of survivor Lieutenant Edward Godfrey.