American War Generals

Sep 14, 2014

2h 0m

★ 0.0

Overview

Powell. McChrystal. McCaffrey. Petraeus. Clark. For the first time, National Geographic Channel gathers the nation's leading war generals for an unprecedented look at 50 years of military history, from the Vietnam War to America's war on Al-Qaeda. The two-hour special American War Generals reveals never-before-heard stories and insightful opinions from eleven active and retired U.S. Army generals. Their accounts take us through the big changes that have transformed the U.S. military from the first troops to enter Vietnam to the last combat troops to exit Afghanistan, explaining the critical personal experiences that shaped their lives and the way they approached modern warfare.

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Documentary

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National Geographic

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Cast

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Colin Powell

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David Petraeus

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Raymond Odierno

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7.8

Disclosure

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6.7

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7.0

Searching for Skylab, America's Forgotten Triumph

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8.0

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6.9

JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass

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Voices From Inside The Towers

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6.6

Korengal

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8.0

How The Bismarck Sank HMS Hood

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The 'mighty' Hood was the pride of the British Navy for more than 20 years, revered around the world as the largest and most powerful warship afloat. But when it was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck off the coast of Greenland on 24 May 1941, its end was shockingly swift.

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Stealing the Superfortress

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How the Soviet Union was able to copy the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, and the influence of the resulting Tupolev TU-4 on the Cold War.

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6.0

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6.5

The Forgotten Plague

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5.9

Aquarius: The Age of Evil

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6.3

A Night at the Garden

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5.9

Report from the Aleutians

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A documentary propaganda film produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps about the Aleutian Islands Campaign during World War II. The film opens with a map showing the strategic importance of the island, and the thrust of the 1942 Japanese offensive into Midway and Dutch Harbor. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

American War Generals

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