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THE WAR, a seven-part series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, tells the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four quinte......

Ken Burns The War Episode The War Ep2 Ken Burns’ The War is a Ken Burns and Lynn Novick directed documentary about World War II. It tells the story through first hand accounts of Americans from four small towns some that went to war and some that stayed at home....

After a haunting overview of the Second World War, an epoch of killing that engulfed the world from 1939 to 1945 and cost at least 50 million lives, the inhabitants of four towns — Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; and Luverne, Minnesota — recall their comm...

As the war continued, the hardships and the human cost became more evident. Many soldiers had little to eat and inadequate clothing, while others became addicted to alcohol. Soldiers also suffered when their officers made mistakes. At the battle of Fredericksburg in December of 1862, Union General A...

In May of 1864, the two foremost generals of the North and South finally met in battle: the withdrawn Grant, fresh from a string of victories, and the beloved Lee, struggling to hold together an army short on men and supplies. In Virginia, the Union army began its relentless pursuit of the smaller C...

Ken Burns’ The War is a Ken Burns and Lynn Novick directed documentary about World War II. It tells the story through first hand accounts of Americans from four small towns some that went to war and some that stayed at home....

realm ruled by the great Mongol khans in the 13th and 14th centuries; uniting almost all of western and eastern Asia, it was one of the largest land empires in history. The original homeland of the Mongols, situated in the eastern zone of the Asian steppe, was bounded by the Hinggan Mountains on ...

The story of Camilla Carr and Jonathan James, a pair of British aid workers working in Chechnya to set up ... a rehabilitation clinic for children traumatised by war. Taken hostage by guerrillas fighters, the couple endured a 14-month incarceration, and were subjected to intense emotional and al to...

The series looks back at the Indian kidnapping of two men by the two men were kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists who threatened them with beheading....

Documentary series profiling true-life stories of abductions abroad. In 1999, a group of 14 tourists and their guide were kidnapped ... by guerillas while on safari in Uganda. The brutal kidnappers were part of a Hutu death squad fleeing from the Rwandan civil war. The tourists found themselves tin...