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 8 months 2 weeks ago • 1,576 views • 9:30militaria and warfare
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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
posted by Fransky 1 decade 3 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 1,906 views • 8:36The cameraman and many of the people in the film died soon afterwards.
posted by arvana 1 decade 3 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 2,712 views • 6:30STORY 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 9 months 4 weeks ago • 3,468 views • 1:33:42The 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 1 month ago • 2,107 viewsA 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 9 months ago • 9,371 viewsA 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 3 years 12 months ago • 2,342 viewsThe Art of Warfare meets PowerPoint.
posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 1 decade 4 years 1 week ago • 2,320 viewsZulu 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 week ago • 2,122 views • 2:18:19This 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 1 month ago • 2,098 viewsFrom 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 1 month ago • 1,176 viewsThis 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 4 months ago • 2,212 viewsFrom 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 7 months 3 weeks ago • 15,029 views"He got the Nobel prize for public speaking."
posted by EndAll 1 decade 4 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 2,977 viewsexcerpt 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 4 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 4,397 viewsSome amazing slow motion video. Mesmerizing.
posted by krazyety 1 decade 5 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 11,680 viewsWith 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 2 months 2 weeks ago • 2,702 viewsVia: ScrapeUp
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