S1.E5 ∙ Episode #1.5

Produced by the Fox Movietone News arm of Fox Film Corporation and based on the book by Lawrence Stallings, this expanded newsreel, using stock-and-archive footage, tells the story of World War I from inception to conclusion. Alternating with scenes of trench warfare and intimate glimpses of European royalty at home, and scenes of conflict at sea combined with sequences of films from the secret archives of many of the involved nations.

'The Heart of Battle' reveals the extraordinary and inspiration bond between Sergeant David Battle, the most critically wounded soldier from Iraq currently at Walter Reed Hospital, and Inga Guen, a German immigrant who lives in the world of haute couture and caters to some of Washington's most powerful women.

On December 9, 1980, De Gaulle Eid's parents, youngest sister and eleven other members of his family were gunned down in Edbel, Northern Lebanon. After quitting Lebanon for France 18 years ago, Eid now lives with his own family in Corsica. Since leaving Lebanon, Eid has remained traumatized by the massacre. Finally, he travels back to his homeland, where a 1993 amnesty agreement means that perpetrators of civil war-era atrocities are immune from retribution. Discovering his former neighbors, who participated in his family's slaying are still living in the area, Eid is faced with a hideous reality.