Military Episodes

A hundred years ago, Mata Hari faced the firing squad as a convicted German spy. Was she a dangerous spy, whose boldness and sexuality threatened the establishment, or a victim entangled in a climate of blame and desperation as WWI dragged on?

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Determined to prevent security forces from entering their community, people in the suburb of Anchar, in the disputed region of Kashmir, stand united in their desire to achieve freedom from India.

Wartime Singapore, 1942. As night devours day, one man must navigate through dangerous jungle in search of sanctuary.

NBC reports that researchers from a Washington based think-tank have discovered a secret missile base in North Korea one of more than a dozen undisclosed sites.

The Print reports that China's various infrastructure projects in Tibet could have military implications for India.China is building the G-6 expressway to connect Beijing to Lhasa, the capital of Tibet.

The prime suspects in the Salisbury nerve agent attack have claimed they visited the UK as tourists.

A massive US-led war game seeing thousands of troops carrying out an exercise in countries bordering Russia's eastern flank is incredibly important, a senior American general has said.

US President Donald Trump has called off next month's summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, calling the cancellation a "tremendous setback" for peace.

New missile defence system Sea Ceptor, which will protect the Royal Navy's aircraft carriers, has entered into service, the Defence Secretary will announce on Thursday.

President Vladimir Putin said Russia has tested an array of new strategic nuclear weapons that cannot be intercepted. This marks a technological breakthrough that would dramatically increase Russia's military capability.

Royal Navy bomb disposal experts detonate an unexploded Second World War bomb in the Thames estuary off Shoeburyness, Essex, after its discovery earlier this week in the King V George Dock close to London City Airport..

Gunshots and the thundering roar of armoured vehicles disturbed the silent snowy forests as British and Estonian troops went head-to-head in an ultimate winter war game.

The bodies of two British men killed while fighting against Islamic State in Syria have been repatriated to the UK. Sniper Jac Holmes and Oliver Hall, both 24, died one month apart last year while battling the extremist group in Raqqa.

In the war against ISIS, the only movement combatting the jihadists with any effectiveness on the ground is the Kurdish resistance army. This movement is made up of both men and women fighters forcing back the jihadists and reclaiming the land.

A captivating step back in time, Pozieres explores the small village in Northern France which, during the Great War in 1916, was the setting of one of the bloodiest battles in history, and a twentieth century tragedy for Australia.

Bloomberg's Sahil Kapur reports from the White House following President Trump's joint news conference with NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. He speaks with Joe Weisenthal and Julie Hyman on What'd You Miss?

Northrop Grumman Remotec, a division of one of the largest military contractors in the country, outfits militaries and over 400 US civilian bomb squads with their Andros robot - a machine capable of assessing and diffusing suspicious packages.

Modern-day Special Forces troops from the US and Canada are brought together to train using the same methods and equipment as the First Special Service Force in the 1940s.

Modern-day Special Forces troops from the US and Canada are brought together to train using the same methods and equipment as the First Special Service Force in the 1940s.

Modern-day Special Forces troops from the US and Canada are brought together to train using the same methods and equipment as the First Special Service Force in the 1940s.

Modern-day Special Forces troops from the US and Canada are brought together to train using the same methods and equipment as the First Special Service Force in the 1940s.

This exclusive film reveals exactly why a coalition of 26 international powers, overseen by the United States, has yet to overthrow 30,000 ISIS jihadists.

One of the most brutal conflicts in Australian war history, the Kokoda Campaign was a powerful victory that directly saved Australia from the threat of Japanese occupation. These are the harrowing personal stories from the Kokoda Trail in New Guinea.

The remarkable story of exiled filmmaker Ibrahim Arify as he returns to his native Afghanistan, tasked with restoring 8,000 hours of lost films against Taliban wishes. Films burned and destroyed and thought never to be seen again - until now.

Three untrained British volunteers with no family connections to the Middle East heed the call to take up arms with Kurdish fighters to reclaim Rojava from ISIS. But they find themselves unprepared for the raw atrocities of combat.

During the Cold War, the US Air Force operated the world's fastest air-breathing aircraft - the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. Colonel Rich Graham tells BBC Future what made it so special.

We have witnessed fewer and fewer wars between countries since 1945, and so there is no reason to doubt that they could disappear like other horrifying acts.

Following the fall of France in June 1940, Britain was all but alone in Europe to carry on the fight against Nazi Germany.

In the spring of 1941 most of Europe was under German control. In the West only Britain remained in the fight. But it was largely a fight for survival.

For many, the Normandy landings in June 1944 are most associated with the liberation of Europe. But it was almost exactly the year before that parts of mainland Europe began to throw off the Nazi yoke.

Japan had been at war with China several years before the outbreak of the Second World War. As a result, her war machine was already up to speed as the wider conflict developed.

Gallipoli From Above reveals the real story about the Gallipoli landing dispelling the myths about poor planning, wrong beaches and British generals sending Australian troops to certain death.

Day of Days: June 6, 1944 commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landing by bringing together American D-Day veterans to share their experiences from that fateful day.

Learn about the history of the tank, starting with its introduction in World War 1.

The idea of a plane that dropped bombs first emerged in World War 1, and was particularly effective in the Gulf War.

The Spitfire plane played a pivotal role in World War 2. This program looks at the history and developments of the fighter plane.

The helicopter gunship emerged in World War 2 and was further developed through the post-war years.

Most casualties in the 20th Century battlegrounds were caused by artillery and so this program looks at the development of canons, mortars and the like.

The story of Nazi general Reinhard Heydrich, who chaired the infamous Wannsee Conference (which approved the Final Solution). He died in 1942 of injuries from an ambush near Prague.

The finale focuses on SS reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler, who was picked up by a British patrol while attempting to make his way to Bavaria following Germany's defeat. He committed suicide the next day.

The search for Klaus Barbie, aka the Butcher of Lyon, who was responsible for the deaths of some 4000 French men and women. Also: the hunt for a death-camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible.

The story of the Jewish vigilantes who, after the WWII, tracked down known Nazis and killed them. They also plotted to poison the water supplies of Munich, Berlin, Nuremburg, Hamburg and Weimar

The case against Hermann Goering, the Luftwaffe commander in chief who founded the Gestapo in 1933 and was named Hitler's successor in 1941.

The hunt for SS officer Adolf Eichmann, who organized the transport of Jews to the death camps. He escaped from US custody after the war, was captured in 1960, and was executed in 1962.

The search for Joachim Peiper, a Waffen-SS officer whose unit massacred the captured American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion in December 1944.

Pierre Laval was a French politician who developed a close relationship with Adolf Hitler and proposed that the two countries should collaborate. He is still one of the most detested men in French history.

This episode explores the Finnish Nazi collaborators and dispels the myth they were good collaborators not involved in many war crimes. It details war crimes committed by the Waffen SS Finnish soldiers and explores the depth of the Finnish denial.