S1.E2 ∙ The Wanderer

Ancient military historian Roel Konijnendijk rates 10 battle scenes in movies and television for realism. He discusses the accuracy of ancient-warfare battle scenes, penning enemies, and swords and buckles. He also comments on bolt artillery, bow and arrow precision, and walls of flame. Konijnendijk analyzes chariot tactics, pavises and ditches as well.

The history of the development of the concept of total war and its growing escalation of scope and destructiveness.

WW II Marine and Iwo Jima Survivor Sammy Bernstein's story of two battles, the first, his thirty-six days of hell on Iwo Jima: The second, serving as a Jew in the World War II Marine Corps.

14 October 1943: Jewish prisoners and Russian P.O.W. killed some Nazi guards in the infamous KZ Sobibór and organized a mass escape through the electrified barbed wire fence and minefields around the camp. Few of the escapees survived the war. One of them was the Dutch Jew Jules Schelvis (1921-2016). This documentary is based on the 18 hours of interview with 12 survivors which Schelvis recorded in the 80's with his little camera.

A rare Israeli account inside Syria and Iraq about the fight against ISIS. Itai Anghel has spent one month on the front line to bring that account: In this piece from the documentary: The Kurdish women fighters who became the nightmare of ISIS. Apparently, if a woman kills an ISIS fighter he would not get to heaven. Thus, the women fighters in the guerrilla are becoming the most effective force against the Jihadists.