The aftermath of the failed breakout is felt and General Hamilton requests more troops while many of his officers dissent. Bartlett sends a letter to the British Prime Minister via the Australian reporter Murdoch.

The truth has reached London and Lord Kitchener arrives to tour the trenches. The ANZACs suffer further as winter sets in and finally orders to evacuate are received.

A chronicle which provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet. Criticized by Cabinet members and Pentagon officials for reporting with a pro-Iraqi bias, and strongly condemned for frequently airing civilian casualties as well as footage of American POW's, the station has revealed (and continues to show the world) everything about the Iraq War that the Bush administration does not want the public to see.

Ngāti Tūmatauenga is a reality documentary series that follows Māori recruits through their Basic Training programme in their efforts to join the NZ Army.

Two boys are born in Parma, Italy on the day of composer Giuseppe Verdi's death in 1901. Alfredo Berlinghieri is the son of a wealthy landowner and Olmo Dalco is the son of a poverty-stricken peasant who becomes a communist and labor organizer. Though the boys are childhood friends, they increasingly come into conflict as adults as Alfredo panders to the increasingly powerful fascists while Olmo fights relentlessly against Mussolini's followers. [Part one of two]

An investigation into the introduction of torture as an interrogation technique in U.S. facilities, and the role played by key figures of the Bush Administration in the process. Takes an in-depth look at the case of Afghan taxi driver Dilawar, who was suddenly detained by the U.S. military one afternoon in 2002 and died in his Bagram prison cell five days later.

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

The so-called "war on terror" or fierce competition for natural resources? We examine the increasing US and French military presence in Africa.

Two boys are born in Parma, Italy on the day of composer Giuseppe Verdi's death in 1901. Alfredo Berlinghieri is the son of a wealthy landowner and Olmo Dalco is the son of a poverty-stricken peasant who becomes a communist and labor organizer. Though the boys are childhood friends, they increasingly come into conflict as adults as Alfredo panders to the increasingly powerful fascists while Olmo fights relentlessly against Mussolini's followers. [Part two of two]

An unflinching look at the information wars Israel and its supporters have been waging for decades to win the hearts and minds of the American people.

A young man comforts his older brother's wife and children after he goes missing in Afghanistan.

The Book Thief tells the story of a spirited and courageous young girl named Liesel, who transforms the lives of everyone around her when she is sent to live with a foster family during World War II.

Bartlett returns to London and, alongside Murdoch, endeavours to expose the failures of the Dardanelles campaign.

In the build-up to the August offensive, Bean doesn't let his wounded leg stop him. Meanwhile, Bartlett learns that they are ill-prepared for the imminent destruction.

The inspirational story and tragedy behind a legendary fighting unit of Māori volunteers. This documentary profiles the 28th Māori Battalion, which was a vital part of the Second New Zealand Division army and saw action in Greece, Crete, North Africa and Italy. By the end of the war, the Māori soldiers had earned a reputation for courage under fire and were feared by their German and Italian enemies. The price for valour though was extraordinarily high for Māoridom. With a massive casualty rate among the battalion, Māoridom was robbed of an entire generation of Māori men and leaders. The documentary was produced and directed by Tainui Stephens in 1990 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the battalion. It is introduced by the late Sir Charles Bennett.

A tale based on the life of Wilhelm Furtwangler, the controversial conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic whose tenure coincided with the Nazi era. Note that the audio is not perfectly synchronised in this video.

The untold story of New Zealand’s involvement in the war in Afghanistan. Reporters take a closer look at two significant firefights which raise crucial questions: Why were we there? What really happened? What wasn’t the public told? And why?

Three journalists land with the British and Allied troops at Gallipoli in 1915 but are forbidden to report on the catastrophe unfolding before them. Determined, they expose the truth and help change the course of the disastrous campaign.

The story of a Danish commander who was accused of civil murder in Afghanistan, while trying to save his squad.

In the middle of "No Man's Land", soldiers bring a wounded man home. Competed in the short film contest Tropfest NZ in 2015.

Photojournalist Nick Danziger returns to Kosovo and tries to trace the ethnic Albanian people he pictured in refugee camps during the war in the Balkans.

An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons.

During the early years of the Nazi occupation of France in World War II, romance blooms between Lucile Angellier, a French villager, and Bruno von Falk, a German soldier.

Traces the footsteps of forgotten Kiwi filmmaker Michael Havas who through encountering the 28th Maori Battalion would go on to document the 1977 pilgrimage to the battle fields of World War II.

The story of Allan Yeoman who was captured at Tobruk (Libya) and spent the rest of the war concocting escape plans from prison camps in Italy, Austria and Germany.

A U.S. sub commander, obsessed with sinking a certain Japanese ship, butts heads with his first officer and crew.

Documentary exploring the New Zealand sacrifice during the 1917 battle of Passchendaele, where in just two hours more than 2800 men were killed, wounded or listed as missing in action.

The untold story of an ordinary and extraordinary New Zealander, and the truth behind the well-known photograph 'The man with the donkey'.

Set during the last months of World War II, a U.S. Army sergeant known as Wardaddy leads his crew on a mission behind enemy lines.

The extraordinary true story of Oliver Woodward and his platoon of ordinary Australian miners who tunnelled beneath enemy lines and changed the course of the war on the Western Front.

A brutal yet poetic snapshot of life as one of Africa's child soldiers, following a young girl who is kidnapped from her village by a group of rebel fighters. Forced to gun down members of her family and enemy soldiers, she takes solace in fellow soldier Magician, a young albino with whom she escapes and starts a new life.

Algeria, 1954. Two very different men thrown together by a world in turmoil are forced to flee across the Atlas mountains. Daru, the reclusive teacher, has to escort Mohamed, a villager accused of murder.

Three journalists land with the British and Allied troops at Gallipoli in 1915 but are forbidden to report on the catastrophe unfolding before them. Determined, they expose the truth and help change the course of the disastrous campaign.

In November 1939, Georg Elser's attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler fails, and he is arrested. During his confinement, he recalls the events leading up to his plot and his reasons for deciding to take such drastic action.

Struggling to grasp the concept of six million Holocaust victims, the students at Whitwell Middle School in rural Tennessee decide to collect six million paper clips to better understand the extent of this crime against humanity. Because Norwegians invented the paper clip and used it as a symbol of solidarity against the Nazis, students started collecting them to help visualize such vast numbers of victims. As word spread online and in the media, paper clips poured in from around the world, eleven million of which are enshrined in an authentic German railcar standing in the schoolyard.

The true story of how the British attacked German dams in WWII by using an ingenious technique to drop bombs where they would be most effective. Starring Michael Redgrave.

Epic German war film detailing the claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror. Autumn, 1941: 43 young German sailors aboard U-96 enter the war against Britain. They seek adventure, respect and heroism. For them, this voyage is for glory. For their captain, a seasoned war veteran at the young age of 30, it is a mission against enemy destroyers in a blood-red sea that can devour a ship and its crew without leaving a trace.

M*A*S*H is an American television series which aired on CBS from 1972 to 1983, based on the 1968 novel M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, by Richard Hooker. The series, follows a team of doctors and support staff stationed at the "4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital" in Uijeongbu, South Korea, during the Korean War (1950-1953).

An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.

Japanese warlord Hidetori Ichimonji decides the time has come to retire and divide his fiefdom among his three sons. His eldest and middle sons - Taro and Jiro - agree with his decision and promise to support him for his remaining days. The youngest son Saburo disagrees with all of them arguing that there is little likelihood the three brothers will remain united. Insulted by his son's brashness, the warlord banishes Saburo. As the warlord begins his retirement, he quickly realizes that his two eldest sons selfish and have no intention of keeping their promises. It leads to war and only banished Saburo can possibly save him.

An explosive, adrenaline-pumping thrill ride and the tale of one man's heroic actions in the line of duty. Based on the true story of World War II saboteur Max Manus and his personal struggles.

Did New Zealand give a home to genocidal killers? Nazi Hunter sees Wayne Stringer investigate 47 displaced persons "who originally came to New Zealand at the end of WWII." This film interweaves his secret year-long investigation with the story of his prime suspect — an elderly North Shore man who had been a machine gunner in the “mobile murder unit” responsible for the killing of thousands of Eastern European Jews in Holocaust. Stringer travelled to the Baltic States where he was given access to war records held for years in KGB archives safely behind the Iron Curtain and visited the killing grounds in Lithuania and Belarus. He also linked in with war crimes investigators from other countries. The film poses the question: as a result of the investigation into suspected Nazi war criminals, has New Zealand become a more or less safe place for modern era war criminals looking for a bolt hole?

In the fascist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.

The life stories of the five Marines and one Naval officer that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. Based on the book by James Bradley and Ron Powers.

The 1943 feature film starring Humphrey Bogart. Filmed during World War II, Sgt. Joe Gunn leads an abandoned tank unit after the fall of Torbruk in North Africa. Adapted by James O'Hanlon from an original screen story by Philip MacDonald based upon an incident in the Soviet photoplay entitled: The Thirteen.

Based on the true story of Australian Oliver Woodward. Beneath Hill 60 follows him into WW1, where he must leave his lover for his secret platoon of tunneller fighters.

This episode: The final part starts in 2009 and tells the story of 2nd Battalion Princess of Wales regiment as it comes to terms with new rules of fighting brought in to protect civilians. Private Mike McCabe is filmed being shot in the leg during a Taliban ambush. By 2010, the Scots Guards find themselves fighting a very different war - a battle for hearts and minds. They struggle to train a local force, the Afghan National Police, who fight in a reckless and dangerous way. The risks are hammered home when Guardsman Daniel Clarke films a three-year-old girl who has been seriously injured by a rocket-propelled grenade fired by the ANP. The Scots Guards tour ends in tragedy when six members of the ANP are massacred in their sleep. Our War: The war in Afghanistan as seen through the eyes of young British soldiers on the frontline.

A failed coup attempt, a British mercenary in a grim African prison, a dictator accused by the West of torture and beneath it all, a spectacular underwater oil reserve that the world's major powers would love to get their hands on. It may sound like the latest John LeCarre bestseller, but it's the real-life intrigue behind Simon Mann's African Coup, Storyville's penetrating look at mysterious goings on in Equatorial Guinea, a tiny West African nation newly rich from oil and infamous for corruption. Filmed over eighteen months, with access to key players, the film offers a unique look inside a country that rarely allows in the foreign press.The story proper begins in 2004, when a group of mercenaries, headed by Mann, is arrested in Zimbabwe. Equatorial Guinea's president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, accuses them of plotting a bloody coup d'etat to steal his country and its oil. When Mann is sentenced to 34 years in Equatorial Guinea's feared Black Beach jail, he claims to be only a part of a Western plot to grab the country's vast oil resources. This fast-paced thriller of a film travels the globe to unravel that plot, from South Africa to Spain, from London to Washington - promising to reveal the truth of what happened in the most controversial coup attempt in recent history.But as this all plays out, another actor has its eye on Obiang's oil: China. The Chinese government showers the country with largesse. A new capital city rises from the jungle. Accused by the US of corruption and horrifying human rights abuses, President Obiang welcomes China as his new best friend. Simon Mann's African Coup sheds light on the uncomfortable realities of oil politics in the 21st century.

In 1920 Ireland, the ordinary people of the land unite to form volunteer guerilla armies to face the ruthless Black and Tan squads that are being shipped from Britain to block Ireland's bid for genuine independence. As the freedom fighters' bold tactics bring the British to breaking point, a treaty is declared. But, despite the apparent victory, civil war erupts and men who have fought side by side, now find themselves pitted against one another as enemies, in disagreement about the treaty signed with Britain. Some say it's not real freedom for the Irish, while others see it as a start.

A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash explores key historical events, data and predictions regarding the global peak in petroleum production through interviews with petroleum geologists, former OPEC officials, energy analysts, politicians, and political analysts. The film contains contemporary footage interspersed with news and commercial footage from the growth heyday of petroleum production. The documentary focuses on information and testimony that supports the projection of a near-term oil production peak.