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  • American Civil War: Battle of Prairie Grove - “War for the Ozarks”

    When the Missouri Division pulls out of Northwest Arkansas to reinforce Grant's efforts against Vicksburg, Hindman sees an opportunity forming for his army to get back to Missouri. With only Blunt left in the region to defend the border, Hindman draws up a plan to bag the Kansas Division and use ...

  • Billy Boy: The Execution of Billy Laird

    He never saw battle.
    He never fired a shot.
    But in 1863, William Laird, a mentally challenged young man from Maine, was executed by a Union Army firing squad.
    This is one of the most tragic and forgotten stories of the Civil War.

  • The Drive

    Felled timber is taken down the Mattagami, a Northern Ontario River. The men who guide the logs on “the drive” are “famous for their dexterity” as poling and burling are demonstrated. In an amusing sequence the men are shown as “proverbial for their appetite.” The independence that workers enjoye...

  • The Mind of the Kamikaze

    In late 1944, Japan’s military turned to a deadly and radical tactic: suicide attacks by pilots known as kamikaze, or “divine wind.” These young men, often in their late teens, flew explosive-laden aircraft into Allied ships, sacrificing themselves to delay defeat. The kamikaze program, rooted in...

  • Chrysler 300

    Race into the history of the production and updates to the Chrysler 300.

  • The US Ration: Civil War Food

    Join Will as he goes through what the US soldier should have received as a ration, and how it varied with what was available.

  • Boss 302 429 Mustangs

  • Our Mary: A P-47 Thunderbolt Story - Part 1

    relive some of the most intense air combat missions of World War II - told from the perspective of 9th Air Force fighter pilot Lt. Ed Cottrell, and his P-47 Thunderbolt "Our Mary".

    In this episode, Ed trains to fight the advancing German army in Europe, and experiences his brutal baptism by fire...