S1.E16 ∙ Magnet Making Current

In the early months of 1941, Italy's offensive had stalled and a Greek counter-offensive pushed into Albania. Germany sought to aid Italy by deploying troops to Romania and Bulgaria and attacking Greece from the east. Meanwhile, the British landed troops and aircraft to shore up Greek defences. A coup d'état in Yugoslavia on 27 March caused Adolf Hitler to order the conquest of that country.

Tracy McGrady travels to Darfur to learn about the ravaging effects of the recent ongoing genocide.

The drugs, tools, and techniques of American Civil War medicine.

This is a film poem in four parts. It represents the first four days after Algeria's declaration of independence in 1962. The film crew has been working in the country for three months. It documents the time from the end of the war to the signing of official documents. Footage was taken from the Algerian National Liberation Army. There are episodes of refugees exiled to the mountains of Morocco and Tunisia. Ordinary people from towns and villages, from Muslim and European Algeria are represented. These shots alternate with shots of the celebration of the National Day.

Unseasoned but brave American soldiers take the war out of the trenches and into the cemetery of No Man's Land. Their horses didn't undertand English, but that didn't stop our Doughboys from telling the story of the American Expeditionary Force's heroic actions to end the war - to end all wars.