The year is 1947. Pavel Morozov, a lieutenant of the Engineering Troops, returns home after a victory and two years of work on the restoration of Prague. His mother and fiancee are waiting for him in his native village near Novosibirsk. But instead of happiness and a peaceful life, Pavel is faced with the false accusation of NKVD major Mikhail Bunyugin, camps, a new separation from his beloved and other difficulties of the post-war period.
Spanning from the Civil War to modern-day Afghanistan, each episode explores the courageous actions of soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen who have earned the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military recognition.
A Total War is all encompassing, a war without boundary or limitation. It is a war of material and morale. A war that mobilizes, destroys and displaces civilian populations. The Second World War was a war in which massive armies advanced, confronting whole populations with impossible choices. The manufacture of weapons transformed industry and the workforce; area bombing campaigns reduced cities to rubble; sieges doomed populations to starvation; racial policies sponsored campaigns of genocide. Told through archive footage and expert interviews, we learn how WWII shattered the boundaries between home-front and battlefield.
Top Tens of Warfare tells the story of modern age warfare in ten episodes. Each episode is dedicated to the top ten of military inventions, vessels, battles, aircraft, weapons, secrets, tanks, fighting forces, commanders and leaders and shows how they all influenced and changed the way we lived.
—Kalla
World War 1. Over 35 world powers were involved in this conflict. As a result, four empires – Russian, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman and German – ceased to exist… The participant countries lost 12 million killed, 55 million were wounded… From the series, the viewers will learn about the overall course of the war and follow the incredible life stories of its heroes.
Star Media's award-winning animation studio, Babich Design proudly presents this powerful and dramatic account of the Korean War (1950-1953). Often colloquially referred to as 'The Forgotten War', it was nevertheless one of the most dangerous big-power confrontations and threats to world peace since World War 2 with a bitter legacy of hatred and suspicion enduring to the present day. With a combination of stunning CGI animation, dramatic reconstruction and unique historic library footage, the full and harrowing details of this brutal and bloody war are vividly recreated for today's television audience for many of whom the war is a distant memory or a mere item in the history books.
When a nameless amnesiac wakes up in a bunker, they're immediately thrust into the trenches of an endless war. The Crown Army demands service from every soldier, regardless if you can remember your own name... or even how you got here at all.
In the fall of 2014, a young Russian journalist Alexei Suvorov, who dreams of money and fame, travels to Donbass as part of a humanitarian mission to interview the famous battalion commander Lesentsov, who is fighting on the side of the militia. He intends to sell the collected material to a German publication, with which he cooperates in parallel and where he plans to get a permanent job. During the journey, Suvorov encounters numerous obstacles that always distance him from his intended goal. As a result, he is forced to act rashly, risk his life and make mistakes. His fellow travelers are people with different destinies and attitudes to what is happening.
Taking place just after the end of Bosnian War, the series is mostly set in a kafana named Složna braća owned by Halimić brothers and located on a small patch of UN-controlled territory (covering 0.0657 km2) not claimed by any of the three warring sides. Serbs, Bosniaks, and Croats, otherwise very hostile to each other following a ferocious civil war, regularly visit the said kafana in no man's land in order to arrange mutual black market activities (weapons and food trade, oil and cigarette smuggling, etc.). When the word gets around about an important weapons shipment passing through the territory that can supposedly completely change the division of power in the Balkans, the place becomes a lively hub of espionage, deal making, and skulduggery.
For Whom the Bell Tolls is a British television series first aired by BBC in 1965, based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. It stars John Ronane, Ann Bell, Julian Curry, Glynn Edwards and Joan Miller. The film was adapted for television by Giles Cooper and was directed by Rex Tucker. It consisted of four 45-minute episodes, the first of which aired on 2 October 1965. According to the BBC archives none of the episodes of the film still exist.
Acclaimed for her outstanding beauty and intellect, Bạch Cúc is thought to have a lavish and glamourous life awaiting her in the future, but instead gets married off to the hedonistic, good-for-nothing heir of a wealthy landlord family. Refusing to tolerate the constant abuse wreak upon herself and other servants in estate, Bạch Cúc joins the Vietminh, and begins her double life operating an intricate intelligence network.