
Synopsis
PBS' collection of award-winning Military Specials tell the tales of America's military heroes and their tremendous acts of courage. Trace the history of the revered U.S. Military Academy and explore the unique Warrior Culture of the United States Marine Corps. Meet the brave soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen whose actions have made military history, from Prisoners-of-War and the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II to living recipients of the Military's most prestigious Medal of Honor. PBS Military Specials takes you on a journey through historic battlegrounds and modern day memorials with personal accounts of bravery and daring.
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Military drama following the professional and personal lives of the most elite unit of Navy SEALs as they train, plan and execute the most dangerous, high stakes missions our country can ask of them.
SEAL Team

Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.
The Pacific

This covert combat series focuses on the Red Troop, an elite group of soldiers from the British military's Special Air Service group.
Ultimate Force

Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.
Band of Brothers

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the extended Henry and Jastrow families navigate thevpersonal, social and political impacts of World War II, including the Holocaust, the Battle of the Bulge, and the Pacific theater.
War and Remembrance

During World War II, airmen risk their lives with the 100th Bomb Group, a brotherhood forged by courage, loss, and triumph.
Masters of the Air

The trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.
Tour of Duty

The first 40 days of the war in Iraq as seen through the eyes of an elite group of U.S. Marines who spearheaded the invasion along with an embedded Rolling Stone reporter. A vivid account of the soldiers and of the forces that guided them in an often-improvised initiative.
Generation Kill

CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson, Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her personal well-being and even sanity, at every turn.
Homeland

A covert team of special forces operatives risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their wives maintain the homefront, protecting their husbands' secrets.
The Unit

Through vividly enhanced archival footage and voices from all sides of the conflict, this docuseries brings WWII to life like never before.
World War II: From the Frontlines

Navy SEAL Commander James Reece turns to vengeance as he investigates the mysterious forces behind the murder of his entire platoon. Free from the military's command structure, Reece applies the lessons he's learned from nearly two decades of warfare to hunt down the people responsible.
The Terminal List

Cruz Manuelos, a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine, is recruited to join the CIA's Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within. Joe, the station chief of the Lioness program, is tasked with training, managing and leading her female undercover operatives.
Lioness

Action drama series inspired by the real missions of Navy SEAL Team Six.
SIX

The story of World War II told through the intertwining fates of ordinary people from all sides of this global conflict as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives.
World on Fire

Follow the defection of notorious British intelligence officer and KGB double agent, Kim Philby, through the lens of his complex relationship with MI6 colleague and close friend, Nicholas Elliott.
A Spy Among Friends

The story of New York farmer, Abe Woodhull, who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence.
TURN: Washington's Spies

Pianosa Island, Italy, World War II. Bombardier John Yossarian tries to fulfill his duty, maintain sanity and return home as soon as possible, but incompetence and bureaucracy constantly stand in his way.
Catch-22

Using highly advanced colourisation techniques, critical moments from World War II, from Stalingrad to The Battle of Britain, are shown in a whole new light.
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour

Politician Peter Laurence's private life is falling apart. Shamelessly untroubled by guilt or remorse, he seeks to further his own agenda whilst others plot to bring him down. Can he out-run his own secrets to win the ultimate prize?