soldiers

Presents interviews and photographs of American servicemen and women wounded during the first fifteen months of the Iraq War.

A frightened American soldier faces combat in the lush forests of Vietnam.

Photographs and excerpts from the memoirs, letters, and journals of soldiers who fought in the Civil War provide a look at the lives of ordinary soldiers, from what they wore and ate to their leisure activities..

Chronicles the experiences Joseph Plumb Martin had while serving as a private in the Continental Army of the Revolutionary War.

Presents the complete, annotated Civil War journal of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the colonel of the first black regiment in the conflict; and includes a selection of his letters.

Examines the death of Crazy Horse from a Native American perspective, presenting interviews with eyewitnesses of Native American and mixed blood along with official documents such as military orders and telegrams.

This film draws upon archival materials, original recreations, and interviews with authors and historians to explore the life of the legendary trapper, scout, and soldier known as Kit Carson and provide a lens on a pivotal but little-understood era in American history.

In 1916, the magical spotting of film star Charlie Chaplin in over 800 places simultaneously binds the lives of three men, Leland Wheeler, Hugo Black, and Chaplin himself, together.