Military History Channel

The First Infantry Division, aka Big Red One, of the U.S. Army; decorated veterans from the Big Red One during World War II reflect on tense battlefields of El Guettar, North Africa, Troina, Sicily and Normandy (Omaha beach).

Personalities, weapons, firepower and leadership of the battle of Iwo Jima.

World War II U.S. Army Gen. George S. Patton Jr. and his soldiers embark on the road to Germany by invading North Africa Nov. 8, 1942, in the face of opposition by pro-Nazi French forces.

Patton is given command of a fictitious army in England to fool the Germans about the Allies' real plans for the D-Day invasion of Normandy in 1944; Patton helps spearhead the breakout as U.S. forces smash through the German lines.

U.S. Marines and civilians find themselves under attack from Japan on a tiny Pacific island.

Fall of Richmond; Lee's harrowing retreat; surrender at Appomattox Court House; Lincoln's assassination; reconstruction.

The American military returns to the shores of the Philippines on a secret mission to liberate 500 Allied prisoners in the Cabanatuan death camp.

Enslaved by Romans, Thracian warrior Spartacus must fight as a gladiator.

Patton's success in North Africa leads to his being given command of the 7th Army for the Allied invasion of Sicily in a combined amphibious and airborne assault.

Blade implements have been a part of civilized man's arsenal since the Paleolithic Age, when sharp tools were chipped off of flint or obsidian; but with the discovery of metallurgy, people were able to forge stronger, more versatile blade implements.

The American military returns to the shores of the Philippines on a secret mission to liberate 500 Allied prisoners in the Cabanatuan death camp.