Après quatre mois de captivité chez les "Viets", le lieutenant Raspeguy obtient, grâce à son influence, un nouveau commandement: le dixième régiment de parachutistes en Algérie surnommés "les lézards". Mais durant la guerre, il doit faire face à divers problèmes: son ami Ben Mahidi est devenu le chef des rebelles terroristes et il tombe amoureux de Aïcha, qui n'est autre que la sœur de Mahidi.
Cinquante ans après la mort du général de Gaulle, ce film retrace son parcours, de sa naissance en 1890 à son enterrement à Colombey-les-Deux-Églises en 1970. Cette épopée raconte la force visionnaire et le destin rectiligne de cet homme qui a changé le cours de l'Histoire et qui influence encore la vie des Français.
Dans l'imaginaire collectif, les mousquetaires sont ceux décrits par Dumas, qui passent leur temps à se battre en duel et à déjouer des complots. Cependant, les vrais mousquetaires ont formé la compagnie militaire rattachée au Roi. Bénéficiant des technologies militaires les plus avancées de l’époque, ils étaient l’équivalent des forces d’interventions spéciales au cours des guerres de Louis XIII et Louis XIV.
Attaquée en 1941 par le IIIe Reich, l’URSS a sauvé son industrie militaire en la délocalisant loin des combats. Mobilisés dans les usines et dans les kolkhozes, les civils ont été durement mis à contribution. Ce documentaire dévoile une page méconnue de l’histoire de la Seconde Guerre mondiale côté soviétique.
Damien se bat contre un sort que la France a jeté sur son village. Construit il y a 60 ans sur un champ de bataille indéminable de la guerre 14-18, le Polygone servait , dans le plus grand silence, de zone de test pour les détonateurs de la bombe atomique française. On y faisait des explosions à base de produits hautement toxiques tout en imposant le silence.
Fierté de la flotte britannique, le croiseur de bataille HSM Hood affronte le cuirassé allemand Bismarck lors d’une bataille navale le 24 mai 1941. Touché, il coule alors en moins de trois minutes et seuls trois membres d’équipages survivent. Ce naufrage extrêmement rapide, une des plus grandes pertes dans un combat de toute l’histoire de la Royal Navy, demeure un véritable mystère. Pour tenter d’en savoir plus, l’équipe ayant découvert l’épave géante en 2001, dirigée par l’océanographe David Mearns, y retourne onze ans plus tard pour enquêter.
This ten-part docuseries tells the comprehensive story of the First World War, featuring excerpts written by Winston Churchill, Karen Blixen, Georges Clémenceau, David Lloyd George, Siegfried Sassoon and Rudolf Hess.
Myths die hard, and the history of the 20th century is no exception to this rule. Even today, we hold popular beliefs that we take for Evangelical truths. Thus, we believe that Hiroshima caused Japan to surrender, that the Marshall Plan saved Europe, that Adolf Hitler was a military genius, or that Mao Zedong was a necessary evil for China’s modernization. Of course, these judgements contain some truth; but, too broad-stroked to be accurate, they contradict the historical reality by denying its complexity. What if the truth was slightly different? Through an exploration of great national or international myths, this full archive documentary collection revisits the key moments of the 20th century with a new perspective in order to provide a new, smarter and more subtle interpretation, bringing elements to light that have been forgotten or sometimes overshadowed.
Legend has it that there is a treasure of immense value buried in the Philippine jungle - now a team of American experts, with the help of the only surviving witness, try to uncover the clues to solve the greatest mystery of WW2.
Covers the 1941 Japanese military strike on a Hawaiian naval base in never before seen detail.
Battlefield is a documentary series initially shown in 1994 that explores the most important battles fought primarily during the Second World War but also the Vietnam War. The series employs a novel approach in which history is described by detailed accounts of major battles together with background and contextual information.
During the second world war, the Nazis looted everything they could get their hands on, including an estimated 600 tons of gold, thousands of pieces of artwork, and millions of priceless artifacts. While some of these items have been found, much of it remains missing. Treasure hunter Darrell Miklos believes some of these stolen riches were loaded into specially modified U-Boats that are currently lying at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea. His evidence: two top-secret documents acquired over 40 years of research.
The very first submarine, which legend claims lurked beneath New York Harbor during the American Revolutionary War. The small ships that rescued thousands from Dunkirk. The destroyer that forced the easing of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Over the centuries, conflicts have prompted advances to ship designs, making vessels stronger, faster, smarter, and capable of changing the course of wars. Join us as we examine the world's greatest Combat Ships, and reveal how they shaped world history and inspired men and women to acts of incredible courage.
Series charting the history of the warship.
Hawaii, Pacific Ocean. A postcard decor. Clean. Azure. Yet in this heavenly place, one of the most memorable battles of WWII took place 80 years ago.
Two-part documentary telling the story of the battle for control of the North Sea during the First World War.
Terror of the World: The story of a deadly war that intertwines Germany, Poland, Japan, Italy and Spain, and the remorseless development of weapons and bombers.
The story of how the Battleship was used and not used as the ultimate weapon of war during its day up to its demise.
Blueprints of War will strive to encompass the most famous military conflicts, leaders and weapons throughout time. From the beaches of Normandy to the fields of Gettysburg and the minefields of Vietnam, Blueprints of War will traverse the battlefields of the globe telling the story hour-by-hour and minute-by-minute
He fired cannon on his own countrymen, wooed the mistress of a formidable opponent and even threatened the Pope. He was Napoleon, one of the most brilliant and complex figures in history. This absorbing appraisal of his life offers a new perspective of the little man from Corsica, who rose to new heights of power by seizing every brutal, outrageous opportunity in his path. Step inside Napoleon's world through dramatic recreations of key events. Ride into the heat of battle with large-scale reconstructions of his campaigns. From the glory of his empire to his defeat at Waterloo and miserable exile on Elba, here is an entertaining and complete portrait of an extraordinary life
The only major fleet engagement of World War I, the Battle of Jutland has been surrounded by controversy ever since. The British public felt Admiral Jellicoe had failed – a reaction rooted in a hundred years of the 'Nelson cult', a conviction that anything short of a Trafalgar-style annihilation was letting the side down. On the 31st of May 1916 – 251 British and German battleships set out to annihilate one another in the North Sea. In a vicious engagement that lasted over 12 hours – 25 ships were sunk and 8,600 lives were lost. The German Fleet had sunk more ships and suffered fewer casualties, but the British had forced them to disengage and run for port. This two-hour special tells the true story of the battle. An international team of marine divers and historians set out to explore the wrecks of the great Dreadnoughts that lie 100 miles from shore and up to 60 metres deep. The dives will at last reveal why the British navy failed to score a decisive victory.
