S2.E18 ∙ Figure Skating & Handball

With suicide rates among active military servicemen and veterans currently on the rise, the HBO special WARTORN 1861-2010 brings urgent attention to the invisible wounds of war. Drawing on personal stories of American soldiers whose lives and psyches were torn asunder by the horrors of battle and PTSD, the documentary chronicles the lingering effects of combat stress and post-traumatic stress on military personnel and their families throughout American history, from the Civil War through today's conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Filmed in Kyiv during the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, The Battle For Kyiv follows the story of Ukraine's youngest parliamentarian Sviatoslav Yurash and a group of volunteers as they take up arms to repel the invaders.

Real footage is shown to prove that the film Black Hawk Down (2001) was very true to the real events that occured in Mogadishu in 1993. Actual militia and US rangers are interviewed to tell us the different sides of the conflict when Somalia was under the power of Aidid.

The first Genocide of the 20th century when over a million Armenians died at the hands of the Ottoman Turks during World War I, between 1915 and 1918.

An examination of the 1941 air raid on the US naval base.

A documentary on the 25th bombing mission of the Memphis Belle, a B-17 in the US 8th Air Force.