Planet B

The most unusual war of the 20th century took place in 1969. El Salvador and Honduras faced one another in a qualifying set for the 1970 World Cup. Tensions were already boiling over in the two countries over the issue of Salvadoran workers in Honduras. But soccer sometimes brings out the worst in people, and the games turned from friendly competition into a full-scale military invasion by El Salvador on its neighbor. Although the fighting lasted only four days, the combat damaged two nations already teetering on the brink of economic collapse. And it all started over a soccer game.

And you will find few war stories this potentially interesting in The Century of Warfare, an interminable series from the History Channel. A low-budget 1993 British production that relies on public domain footage, library music, and a monotonous British narrator with a soporific voice, this 26-episode series somehow manages to make one of the most inherently interesting subjects stunningly pedestrian and dull.

National Geographic - Naked Science : Killer Asteroid
English | XviD MPEG-4 codec | 688 x 384 | MP3 VBR ~122 kbps | 25 fps | 45 min | 744 MB

What is the deadliest threat to the human species? Believe it or not, it's a 200 million ton lump of rock hurtling through space at 50 times the speed of sound. It could slam into the Earth releasing the explosive equivalent of a 100 million mega-tons of TNT. Hear from astronomers who are working 24/7 to predict the trajectories of these asteroids, and from the scientists of the B-12 project who want to find a way to change the orbit of one of these planet killers before it's too late