The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries: Season 2

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The Somme - A Storm of Steel

Dec 18, 2007 · 30 min

Begun in July of 1916, the devastating Battle of the Somme was a turning point in warfare, demarking the modern combat arena in horrific carnage. Unseasoned and poorly trained Brit

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Siegfried Sassoon - A War Poet's Journey

Dec 18, 2007 · 30 min

He was a soldier's soldier, decorated for bravery by the British government and respected by the men in his battalion. But war had taken its toll on Siegfried Sassoon, and he felt

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Robert Graves and the White Goddess

Dec 18, 2007 · 30 min

Writer Robert Graves took many unpredictable turns on his fascinating journey through life. Though Graves would describe himself first and foremost as a poet, he was a man of enorm

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I Am France - The Myth of Charles de Gaulle

Dec 18, 2007 · 26 min

In France's darkest hours of World War II, a lone French voice emanated from BBC radio in an attempt to rally free French forces to resist the power of invading Germany. Recognizin

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Into the Furnace - The Battle of Verdun

Dec 18, 2007 · 30 min

They called Verdun the Meat Grinder. The Furnace. Hell. When the fighting died down, almost a year after it began, French and German armies were back where they started -- minus cl

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Marshal Pétain's Fall from Grace

Dec 18, 2007 · 29 min

In 1916, 60-year old General Henri Philippe Pétain, who'd been passed by for promotion most of his life, took charge of a horrific World War I battle that would mark France for gen

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Flirting with Danger - The Fantasy of Mata Hari

Dec 18, 2007 · 28 min

A palpable tension held its grip on Paris in 1917. It was the third disastrous year of World War I. France was losing badly -- and looking for someone to blame. In mid-February, wo

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Reading the Enemy's Mind - Espionage in World War I

Dec 18, 2007 · 24 min

Over the course of the 20th century, the secretive government agencies and the spies who ran them would complete the transformation of espionage from an amateur activity to a full-

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Chasing the Phantom - Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck

Dec 18, 2007 · 24 min

The war in East Africa was far different from the hell of the Western Front. The stories that emerged there had a human dimension, where individuals could actually put their imprin

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Dreaming of Africa - The Life of Frederick Selous

Dec 18, 2007 · 25 min

Frederick Selous was a hunter, explorer, and celebrated author. Most of all, he was the envy of thrill-seekers everywhere, who coveted his life of mystery and danger. So large a fi

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At Home and Abroad - The Two Faces of Jan Smuts

Dec 18, 2007 · 32 min

As the only man to sign both the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I and the Paris Peace Treaty that brought an end to World War II, Jan Christiaan Smuts was a voice for

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Albert Schweitzer - Reverence for Life

Dec 18, 2007 · 29 min

In 1953, Albert Schweitzer won the Nobel Prize for peace, and magazines and newspaper articles were calling him "the greatest man in the world." He was one of the most unlikely can

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Congo - A Curse of Riches

Dec 18, 2007 · 26 min

The Congo encompasses a million square miles of the richest land in Africa. Yet despite that wealth -- or perhaps because of it -- throughout their history the Congolese would near

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Waging Peace - The Rise of Pacifism

Dec 18, 2007 · 32 min

As the 20th century approached, governments all over Europe were doing their best to win the deadly game of the arms race. But some of their subjects were beginning to fear that if

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War in the Third Dimension - Aerial Warfare in World War I

Dec 18, 2007 · 26 min

When World War I began, the rival armies charged into battle with frightening new weapons that seemed ready to change the very nature of war. One promising new piece of military ha

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Blood Red - The Life and Death of Manfred von Richthofen

Dec 18, 2007 · 27 min

Today, historians and aviation buffs still celebrate the Red Baron as the ideal fighter pilot. A daring knight of the sky who helped write the book on aerial combat during the worl

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Flying High for France - The Lafayette Escadrille

Dec 18, 2007 · 26 min

In a war that claimed millions of lives, most who served in the military fought because they had no choice. But the high flying men of the Lafayette Escadrille were different: they

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Anthony Fokker - The Flying Dutchman

Dec 18, 2007 · 26 min

On November 11, 1918, the Germans laid down their arms, finally ending World War I. In the surrender agreement, the Allies listed the numbers of cannons, machine guns and other wea

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Karl - The Last Habsburg Emperor

Dec 18, 2007 · 29 min

Karl, the last Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, was labeled a traitor and failure during his lifetime. His own people exiled him. Still, there has been recognition that perh

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The Russian Revolution - All Power to the Soviets!

Dec 18, 2007 · 33 min

In 1991, the Soviet Union, one of the most powerful nations on Earth, collapsed. Born in socialist revolution almost three-quarters of a century earlier, its birth in 1917 sent sho

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V. I. Lenin - History Will Not Forgive Us

Dec 18, 2007 · 33 min

To create the utopian world he envisioned, Lenin did what he thought he had to. His violent seizure of power -- and the harsh measures he took to hold onto it -- inspired generatio

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Impresario - Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes

Dec 18, 2007 · 28 min

Fearless, strong-willed and always a champion of the modern, Sergei Diaghilev discovered a talented group of artists and inspired them to reach new creative heights. Diaghilev wasn

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Ballet - The Art of Dance

Dec 18, 2007 · 32 min

Beautiful and effortless, ballet is one of the world's most elegant art forms -- the human body as poetry in motion. Achieving and maintaining the artful illusion of ballet is all-

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Franz Kafka's Dark Truth

Dec 18, 2007 · 31 min

Franz Kafka had made his living as an attorney in an insurance company, where he'd eked out an obscure and unexceptional life. But when the lawyer put pen to paper, the writer conj

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Lines in the Sand - The Middle East and the Great War

Dec 18, 2007 · 34 min

The Ottoman Empire once spanned three continents, stretching from Budapest to Basra to Algiers. Founded around 1300, it created a rich, multi-ethnic world that was Islamic in faith

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Colonel Lawrence's War - T.E. Lawrence and Arabia

Dec 18, 2007 · 36 min

He was an action hero as well as an intellectual hero. T.E. Lawrence escaped a safe office job during World War I to become a guerilla war mastermind in desert combat, fighting alo

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Historical Lecture: War and Revolution

Dec 18, 2007 · 63 min

Join H.W. Brands, professor of history at the University of Texas Austin, on an hour-long lecture on the wars and revolutions of the early 20th Century..