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- A visual chronicle of some of the most devastating weapons created for war.
- This historical documentary presents the background story to the making and testing of the first H-bomb. It contains rare archival film as well as notable contributions from many of the principal participants in the hydrogen bomb saga. The story is traced onwards from the first atomic bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, through the Russian nuclear blast of September 1949 to the eventual successful detonation of a so-called thermo-nuclear device in the Pacific in November 1952 and the first full-scale H-bomb test in Bikini, in 1954.
- In this World War II documentary, we examine several of the controversial bombings of the war. Included is Allies bombing of the Benedictine Monastery on Monte Cassino.
- The background story to the making and testing of the first hydrogen bomb, with extended interviews with Edward Teller, theoretical physicist who is famously known as "the father of the hydrogen bomb".
- The Battle of Britain memorial flight plus a tribute to the Dakota (name earned from acronym DACoTA for Douglas Aircraft Company Transport Aircraft), as the British and the Australians designated the famous C-47 Skytrain military transport.
- The birth of the A-bomb and the incredible top-secret story that can now be told: from Nazi oppression which forced nuclear scientists to flee to the West to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- A history of fighter planes, including the YF-22A and other experimental military aircraft, from the first World War to Desert Storm: 1914-1991.