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Delving into some of the most controversial and important military operations since World War II.
Director: Julia Alcamo
The Greek Civil War lasted from 1946 to 1949, and when it ended, 100,000 people had died in the fighting, 40,000 were held in concentration camps, 5,000 had been executed, and another 100,000 had fled the country. Was this the old order Churchill had longed for?
43 minutes
Since the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, 400,000 people have been killed by fighting and bombing. What began as peaceful protests harshly repressed by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has turned into a long and deadly proxy war involving some of the world's most powerful countries. How will this conflict end?
44 minutes
In August 2008, a bloody five-day battle broke out between Russia and Georgia over the province of South Ossetia. Nearly 850 people were killed during the five-day conflict, while some 35,000 Georgians were left homeless. Georgia launches an air strike on South Ossetia's main city of Tskhinvali, triggering an all-out war, and Russia comes to South Ossetia's aid.
43 minutes
Beginning in 1980, the United States had sent between $20 million and $30 million a year to the mujahideen jihadists, a figure that would increase to $630 million by 1987. The United States had funded the group that would become the greatest threat to its nation just 14 years later. Is the United States to blame for the rise of Islamic terrorism?
43 minutes
July 10, 1985, New Zealand. A Greenpeace ship, the "Rainbow Warrior", is in Auckland harbor, when two bombs explode on the ship, sinking it and killing Portuguese-Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira. Since the use of nuclear weapons at Hiroshima and Nagaski in 1945 a strong anti-nuclear movement has emerged.
43 minutes
March 13, 1979, Maurice Bishop stages a bloodless coup d'etat on the Caribbean island of Grenada as head of the New Jewel Movement. Beloved by the Grenadian people, but only 4 years later, he is assassinated, and 7,600 U.S. troops flood the tiny island. Is this another example of the U.S. using its military might to stop the threat of what it fears most, communism?
43 minutes
From 1969 to 1973, US forces indiscriminately bomb Cambodia. The Vietnam War has crossed the border and 50,000 people have died. Yet just two years later, Cambodia falls into the most brutal form of communism the world has ever seen, when the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot take control of the country.
43 minutes
The United States is now well known for its covert operations carried out to overthrow governments and implant regimes sympathetic to the United States. But it is not the only country that interferes in the government and politics of other nations; in the wake of the Cuban revolution, Castro is attempting to exert his influence worldwide.
44 minutes
On December 20, 1989, more than 20,000 U.S. troops entered Panama by land, sea, and air in what was called "Operation Just Cause”. They were there to overthrow military dictator Manuel Noriega and his Panama Defense Forces (PDF). However, only 6 years earlier, Noriega was on the CIA payroll. What was it that led the United States to invade Panama?
44 minutes
The Cold War is said to have ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, all tied up with the end of a folding ideological system, and the return of the world order. But today, a new rivalry full of covert operations has flared up once again. The usual players are present, the United States, Russia and the United Kingdom, but this time they are also joined by China.
44 minutes
