S1.E8 ∙ Episode #1.8

Welcome Home documents a radical five day healing retreat for men and women veterans (and family members) from wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam. Filming follows them from the time of their arrival to the culminating event of the retreat, a large public welcome home ceremony/performance where the vets present vivid personal poetry they have written on the retreat to a sold out audience of the civilian community. Through the telling of stories and the beauty of poetry, these courageous vets offer the terrible truth, their undeniable humanity and a gift of rare beauty. This lyrical film invites us in, and provides an unusual answer to a vital national question: how can we truly bring our veterans home from war?

The WWII Libyan campaign of 1940-1941 is chronicled, where British forces commanded by General Wavell defeated the Italian attack on Egypt.

The cartoon-documentary film tells the war story of a certain family, taking an original, intimate point of view. The testimony of the Holocaust has a private dimension here, filtered through the perspective of three women. However, the pain of inherited trauma affects mothers, daughters and granddaughters to varying degrees.

The domination of the skies was an important point during WW2, to win the war. This is the story of men and machines, who struggled every day for peace. This series is a fascinating look back at the incredible bravery of the pilots that brought the final victory to Europe.

An independent documentary film. What happens to ordinary people after the war is over? This is what Leon Gerskovic was determined to find out when he returned to his homeland, what was once Yugoslavia. His journey took him and his team to Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia. There he met invisible refugees of a forgotten war. This film captures people dealing with their own fears, prejudices, and hopes for the future--people who once believed that such tragedies and hardships could never happen to them. As Gerskovic witnesses physical and psychological displacement years after the fighting ended, he also re-lives his own painful history.

A British soldier who lost both legs and half of a hand in Afghanistan rebuilds his body and mind when he enters into the world of competitive strongman with the help of a former Royal Marines Commando.