S8.E1 ∙ Still Life with Animated Dogs

The documentary is about Nour, a journalist who covers the plight of Syrian and Iraqi women and children in the war against the Islamic State terrorists and mercenaries.

When the war in Afghanistan began, U.S. Army special operations soldiers ferreted out hardened terrorists from their lairs and annihilated them using lessons learned from the most successful unit of its kind in the Vietnam War: Company F, 51st Long Range Patrol (Airborne) Infantry. Executive Producers Don and Annette Hall's determination to tell the story of this groundbreaking unit resulted in an award-winning documentary. The men of F/51st decimated the Vietcong and helped save Saigon during the 1968 Tet Offensive. This is their story, told by the extraordinary men who lived it.

''The University Greys: From Students to Soldiers'' - is a documentary describing actual, interesting, and personal details of the lives of a group of students and their families, students who were mustered together to become soldiers in the deadliest war ever faced by Americans. To describe this production as a ''documentary'' is unusually proper, due to the multiple souces of concurring public and private documentation that Micah Ginn utilized to substantiate his earlier short film, ''July''. Some of this history was ammassed by Ginn from alumni, faculty, and administration of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss). Ginn's ''July'' source material was pivotal for the history proclaimed by Bill Paxton in this documentary, and ''July'' is also is the source of most of the period footage in this documentary. Ginn became intrigued about the ''University Greys'' while he was a student of the University of Mississippi, and his short film accurately portrayed the sentiment that is apparent in letters and other original 19th century documents, which were shared with Ginn by descendants of the family of Jeremiah Gage, the central character in both ''July'' and this documentary.