Schedule

SOG Green Berets launch secret missions in Laos and Cambodia during Vietnam War. On Oct 5, 1968, team Alabama battles for survival in a deadly trap.

51 North Korea: Unknown soldiers from secretive "8240" army, including Army Rangers, South Koreans, faced peril but shaped US special forces' future.

R. Lee Ermey, who portrayed the sergeant in "Full Metal Jacket", applies his gruff sense of humor in this half-hour series that answers viewers' mail about what the armed forces were, and really are, like!

R. Lee Ermey, who portrayed the sergeant in "Full Metal Jacket", applies his gruff sense of humor in this half-hour series that answers viewers' mail about what the armed forces were, and really are, like!

"Landing Ship Tanks" weren't deemed noble enough even to have names. They were not thought of as warships even though they were always the first floating metal to touch fire-swept beaches from North Africa.

In 1940, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared war on Britain and her allies and opened a new front in North Africa--if he could push the British out of Egypt, he could control the Suez Canal.

Contestants compete with throwing knives and slingshots. Before guns, these were the weapons that defined the skills of a true marksman. In addition to the elimination challenge, another contestant suddenly goes home.

R. Lee Ermey, who portrayed the sergeant in "Full Metal Jacket", applies his gruff sense of humor in this half-hour series that answers viewers' mail about what the armed forces were, and really are, like!

R. Lee Ermey, who portrayed the sergeant in "Full Metal Jacket", applies his gruff sense of humor in this half-hour series that answers viewers' mail about what the armed forces were, and really are, like!

"Landing Ship Tanks" weren't deemed noble enough even to have names. They were not thought of as warships even though they were always the first floating metal to touch fire-swept beaches from North Africa.

In 1940, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared war on Britain and her allies and opened a new front in North Africa--if he could push the British out of Egypt, he could control the Suez Canal.

Contestants compete with throwing knives and slingshots. Before guns, these were the weapons that defined the skills of a true marksman. In addition to the elimination challenge, another contestant suddenly goes home.

SOG Green Berets launch secret missions in Laos and Cambodia during Vietnam War. On Oct 5, 1968, team Alabama battles for survival in a deadly trap.

51 North Korea: Unknown soldiers from secretive "8240" army, including Army Rangers, South Koreans, faced peril but shaped US special forces' future.

R. Lee Ermey, who portrayed the sergeant in "Full Metal Jacket", applies his gruff sense of humor in this half-hour series that answers viewers' mail about what the armed forces were, and really are, like!

R. Lee Ermey, who portrayed the sergeant in "Full Metal Jacket", applies his gruff sense of humor in this half-hour series that answers viewers' mail about what the armed forces were, and really are, like!

"Landing Ship Tanks" weren't deemed noble enough even to have names. They were not thought of as warships even though they were always the first floating metal to touch fire-swept beaches from North Africa.

In 1940, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared war on Britain and her allies and opened a new front in North Africa--if he could push the British out of Egypt, he could control the Suez Canal.

Contestants compete with throwing knives and slingshots. Before guns, these were the weapons that defined the skills of a true marksman. In addition to the elimination challenge, another contestant suddenly goes home.

By spring of 1942, Japan controlled the western Pacific, the Philippines, and large parts of Indochina. America and her allies knew that final victory could only be achieved by unconditional surrender.

An examination of the Korean War, which set all the rules for the East/West conflict during the nuclear age, and in so doing, brought an unknowing world closer to all-out atomic war than has ever been told.

Join us for an in-depth look at the Korean War. Lasting three years, it took more than 2,000,000 military and civilian lives!

The Korean War was a war of firsts, the first jet war--the first war where it was not possible to unleash full power.

Bitter Standoff. Filled with a rich selection of interviews with battle veterans, as well as commentary by military writers and historians, our series looks at the Korean War from the GI's point-of-view.