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Rediscovered World War II footage reveals frontline British soldiers fighting in Burma recording video messages to their loved ones back home. For the first time in 70 years, the North West Film Archive set out on a mission to track down the veterans and their families featured in the Calling Blighty messages and invited them to a special screening of the films.
Witness the day Custer's luck ran out and the fate of Native Americans changed forever.
Paul Murton enjoys the delights of the favourite Scots holiday destination - the Firth of Clyde. Part 3 of 6.
Episode 1 delves into the harrowing battles of Shiloh and Antietam. The episode examines the strategic decisions made by Union and Confederate leaders and the intense combat experienced by soldiers. Part 1 of 3.
Episode 2 highlights the strategic decisions of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee and the intense combat that defined the crucial battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg, underscoring their impact on the broader conflict and American history. Part 2 of 3.
Episode 3 showcases the intense fighting and strategic errors in the Battle of Chickamauga leading to significant losses on both sides. It then follows General Grant's Overland Campaign, a series of battles aimed at defeating General Lee's forces. Part 3 of 3.
Episode one tells the story of the founding of the SAS in the heat of the north African desert in 1941. David Archibald Stirling is an aristocratic dreamer who had once held ambitions to be an artist or perhaps a famous mountaineer but now, with the war in the desert reaching its most desperate stage, Stirling has a vision for a new kind of war: attacking the enemy where they least expect it - from behind their own lines. But Stirling is up against the many in British High Command who do not want to see him succeed with his radical new way of warfare. Against the odds, Stirling wins through and helps the Allies towards victory in the desert. The cost is high. In combat, Stirling loses lieutenant Jock Lewes, his right-hand man. With his brilliant training methods and invention of a new weapon, Lewes has proved vital to making Stirling's dream of a crack fighting force a reality. Stirling must soldier on alone. Part 1 of 3.
With the tragic loss of Jock Lewes, Stirling's second in command is now the newly promoted Captain Paddy Mayne - an officer as unpredictable and dangerous as the new phase of war that is about to begin. Unknown to David Stirling, the Germans are training special units to track, intercept and kill the marauding SAS. The hunters soon become the hunted. The SAS has to adapt if it is going to survive. Disaster strikes when Stirling is captured by the Germans. As the SAS prepare to fight Hitler in Europe, they are without the inspirational leadership of the man who created them. Part 2 of 3.
Stirling is locked away in Hitler's most secure prison - Colditz. Leadership of the SAS passes to Paddy Mayne, a man who has built his reputation on the battlefield as a warrior of the first rank, but has no interest in charming high command. In 1943, the SAS leaves the desert for Europe to enter a darker and far more complex theatre of war, led by a man who is often drunk and disorderly and prone to acts of savagery. They will face the terror of execution and the trauma of civilian casualties. And they will be the first to witness the nightmare of Belsen concentration camp. Part 3 of 3.
