personal narratives, american

A war correspondent describes people and events of the war in Bosnia where the entire country is a battleground and every person is a combatant, in an attempt to answer the question of why war exists.

An American combat nurse relate her experience in Vietnam and her personal healing and renewal afterwards.

Contains interviews with Dwight Birdwell in which he tells of his experiences as a nineteen-year-old soldier in Vietnam where he was assigned to man an M48 Patton tank, examines Birdwell's heroic actions during the Tet Offensive, and discusses the loss of morale that infected the troops during the last years of the war.

In August 1914, the people of Europe were swept into the first of the wars that would make this century the bloodiest ever. Seventy million soldiers from more than twenty countries marched off to do their duty. In this film soldiers from all sides give a personal account of the trenches and the tactics--and the terrible nature and scale of the slaughter that shattered the old world order. In the end, four empires collapsed and nine million gave their lives. Some became pacificts while others sought retribution and many found themselves fighting another war only two decades later.

Tells the story of the first all-black parachute infantry test platoon, company, and battalion--the 555th Battalion of the 82nd Airborne.