It took Kurt Vonnegut more than twenty years to turn his experience of surviving the allied bombing of Dresden during World War II, into his novel Slaughterhouse Five. In this short interview with James... continue reading

posted by critical_d 1 decade 2 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 1,576 views • 9:30

A film about the music, and effects, of the Vietnam Conflict. I was introduced at another site and thought I'd share it. Very moving stuff

The cameraman and many of the people in the film died soon afterwards.

posted by arvana 1 decade 3 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 2,712 views • 6:30

STORY RESTREPO is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, "Restrepo,"... continue reading

posted by dystopianfuturetoday 1 decade 3 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 3,468 views • 1:33:42

The book that became the HBO special, Taking Chance, is read by its author, USMC. Lt. Col. Michael R. Strobl as part of another film, Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience. The HBO movie... continue reading

posted by oxdottir 1 decade 5 years 2 months ago • 2,108 views

A clip on Harold Gillies; who is considered as the father of plastic surgery. The clip deals with the development of plastic surgery in the First World War. From the BBC documentary: Blood and Guts. ... continue reading

posted by mauz15 1 decade 5 years 10 months ago • 9,372 views

A short tale of the beasts which lie dormant in the human soul. Pushed deep into an abyss of blind hatred, rage and anger. A chasm that leads to inevitable destruction and annihilation. 'Badly translated... continue reading

posted by SpeveO 1 decade 4 years 4 weeks ago • 2,342 views

The Art of Warfare meets PowerPoint.

posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 1 decade 4 years 1 month 1 week ago • 2,320 views

Zulu is a 1964 historical war film depicting the Battle of Rorke's Drift between the British Army and the Zulus in January 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War.

posted by silvercord 1 decade 4 years 1 month 1 week ago • 2,122 views • 2:18:19

This documentary is a compilation of black-and-white film footage shot by the Japanese in Hiroshima and Nagasaki shortly after the atomic bomb blasts in early August 1945. The film shows the destruction... continue reading

posted by rasch187 1 decade 4 years 2 months ago • 2,098 views

From The US Government Archives. Oh how great.. You only need ONE man to operate this thing. And it plants mines so much faster than doing in manually!

posted by mintbbb 1 decade 4 years 2 months ago • 1,176 views

This is a very fine recitation of a powerful, dark, gut-wrenching anti-war poem by Wilfred Owen. The Latin at the end means "It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country."

posted by thepinky 1 decade 4 years 5 months ago • 2,212 views

From YT - "Wikileaks has obtained and decrypted this previously unreleased video footage from a US Apache helicopter in 2007. It shows Reuters journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen, driver Saeed Chmagh, and several... continue reading

posted by Throbbin 1 decade 4 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 15,029 views

"He got the Nobel prize for public speaking."

posted by EndAll 1 decade 5 years 1 week ago • 2,977 views

excerpt from the Discovery Channel series Jetstream: "With unprecedented access to the military training, the students and the instructors, Jetstream tells the true story surrounding the extraordinary... continue reading

posted by Kulpims T'dna (kulpims) 1 decade 5 years 2 weeks ago • 4,397 views

Some amazing slow motion video. Mesmerizing.

posted by krazyety 1 decade 5 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 11,680 views

With thanks to spoco2. Fascinating documentary about the complex tunnels of bunkers and military installations in Berlin, preserved since world war 2.

posted by rasch187 1 decade 5 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 2,702 views

Via: ScrapeUp

posted by theaceofclubz 1 decade 5 years 7 months 1 week ago • 2,143 views