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  • Timeless Patriotism: Guam and World War II

    Narrated by Jim Nantz. While Guam is only 212 square miles, the island is rich in history. Only hours after Pearl Harbor was attacked, the Japanese began aerial bombings on Guam. After two days of strafing, the Japanese came ashore, and hours later, the naval governor surrendered the American ter...

  • Miles, Morale and Memories: Bob Hope and World War II

    Narrated by Gary Sinise. A look at legendary entertainer Bob Hope's contribution in World War II and the incredible miles his troupe logged in the middle of a world war to entertain Americans fighting in Europe and the Pacific and on the home front. Nobody quite like Bob Hope when it came to ente...

  • Dad's Secret War: France 1944

    Narrated by Kevin Bacon. This film is based on the best-selling book "Scholars of Mayhem" by Daniel C. Guiet and Timothy K. Smith. It begins with two Top Secret WWII organizations, American and British, responsible for silent, unseen, highly classified missions of critical importance to defeating...

  • Peleliu: WWII's Most Well-Preserved Battlefield

    A one-hour documentary film narrated by Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights, Bloodline, Zero Dark Thirty, Argo).

    The remote island of Peleliu is considered the most well-preserved battlefield in the world. Removing any relic from the island is illegal, so the battlefield remains almost as it was ...

  • Eagles of Mercy

    Two American 101st Airborne (Screaming Eagles) medics were operating an aid station in a church in Normandy, France, during the opening hours of D-Day. Outside, a savage battle raged all around them. The church changed hands several times, with American and German forces overrunning the village o...

  • Village of Death: Oradour-sur-Glane 1944

    Narrated by Jeff Daniels.

    Robert Hébras stepped carefully through the crumbled ruins of the village where he once lived. “There’s the school bell still hanging up there, reminding me how I was always late,” said the former mechanic.

    Almost 80 years after this idyllic rural village near Limoges...

  • Final Landing on Iwo Jima

    Narrated by Jim Nantz.

    This one-hour documentary delves into the emotional journey of a Marine veteran, wounded in the savage fight that began in February 1945, as he returns to Iwo Jima. We also trace the steps of another Marine’s son, trying to piece together his father’s World War II experien...

  • Elvis and the USS Arizona

    The surprising story of how one of music's biggest icons helped to establish a USS Arizona memorial in Pearl Harbor. Elvis’ fundraising concert drew public attention to the plight and helped to galvanize efforts to finish the USS Arizona Memorial as it stands today.

  • Doolittle's Raiders: A Final Toast

    he bottle of 1896 Hennessy Cognac was uncorked in front of hundreds of people. The surviving World War II veterans from one of history’s greatest military missions were about to raise their silver goblets one last time ending a decades-long tradition. It was time for the veterans to hold this fin...

  • Remember Pearl Harbor

    Narrated by Tom Selleck. The focus of this film is on the military and civilian survivors of Pearl Harbor, all of whom had totally different experiences on December 7, 1941. Woven into their stories is the perspective of Daniel Martinez, Chief Historian of the Valor in the Pacific Monument at Pea...

  • The Tuskegee Airmen: Return to Ramitelli

    Narrated by country music superstar Darius Rucker. We return to Ramitelli airfield in Italy to chronicle the legacy of World War II's famed Tuskegee Airmen, African American pilots who helped break stereotypes and helped win World War II with their incredible fighter escorts of American bombers.