S1.E9 ∙ Stephen's Birthday

Narrated by legendary music icon Pat Boone, For My Country takes you on a journey of the rich history of the United States National Guard. This moving documentary offers an insider's view of the impact the National Guard has made throughout our history and reaches into the heroic lives of the dedicated men and women who sacrifice to defend the United States and its interests at home and all over the globe. This acknowledgment to patriotism culminates with a beautifully filmed and emotionally charged music video tribute by Pat Boone to fallen heroes and the brave soldiers who continue to stand tall for our country.

"A little piece of Norway" explores Norwegian involvement in the war in Afghanistan, Iraq and at Guantanamo. In particular, the Norwegian arms industry is examined. The documentary reaches its dramatic peak when it reveals that Aker Kvaerner has installed instruments of torture at Guantanamo.

Eyewitness and survivor accounts of Stalinist purges in Ukraine in 1930s and 1940s.

The story of a young Hutu man forced to kill his Tutsi family members reveals how warmongering propagandist media manipulated an entire nation into slaughtering their families, friends and neighbors in what became the Rwandan Genocide.

Human torture. Factories of death. War atrocities. The crimes that haunt the pages of history are chronicled in the piercing documentary Camps of Death. Following Hitler's murderous career, the film traces his rise to power, his ultimate demise, and the subsequent Nuremberg trials that publicized the horrors of Hitler's regime. Concentration camp footage combines with chilling POW interviews to graphically create the Nazi nightmare that few could hope to survive.

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.