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History Channel - Patton 360 Siege Warfare Movies

Posted by Historyarm at Jan. 26, 2011

The slow but brutal slug-fest in Lorraine continues as Patton orders his men to take the heavily fortified city of Metz. The thick forts that surround the city and the castle-like walls around Metz prove to be more than a match for American armor, and the siege goes on for weeks.

Ammunition supplies run so low that Pattons men resort to using captured German shells. After commencing the largest artillery barrage in Third Armys history, the Americans finally subdue the citys defenders on November 21st.

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The Siege (1998) Movies

Posted by galmuchet at Aug. 19, 2011

The film opens with the bombing of a US Army Barracks in Saudi Arabia (using real-life news footage from the Khobar Towers bombing) leading to both civilian and military American casualties. The U.S. blames a group led by a certain "Sheikh Ahmed bin Talal" who is subsequently seized and surgically extracted before being held under the watch of Major General William Devereaux (Bruce Willis).

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American Experience: We Shall Remain (2009) Movies

Posted by RSU75 at Feb. 9, 2019

We Shall Remain is a groundbreaking mini-series and provocative multi-media project that establishes Native history as an essential part of American history. It begins in the 1600s with the Wampanoags, who used their alliance with the English to strengthen their position in Southern New England. And it ends with the bold new leaders of the 1970s, who harnessed the momentum of the Civil Rights Movement to forge a pan-Indian identity.

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American Experience: We Shall Remain (2009) Movies

Posted by RSU75 at Feb. 3, 2019

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PBS American Experience - We Shall Remain (2009) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Sept. 13, 2016

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Black Hawk Down (2001) Movies

Posted by Someonelse at April 10, 2011

Black Hawk Down (2001)
Full BluRay 1:1 | M2TS | 1920 x 1080 | MPEG2 @ 25560 Kbps | 02:24:19 | 43,8 Gb
Audio: LPCM 5.1 @ 4608 Kbps / DD 5.1 @ 640 Kbps / DD 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
Lang: English, French | Subtitles: English, Chinese, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai
Genre: Action, Drama, War | Won 2 Oscars + 5 wins & 29 nominations | USA

Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down conveys the raw, chaotic urgency of ground-force battle in a worst-case scenario. With exacting detail, the film re-creates the American siege of the Somalian city of Mogadishu in October 1993, when a 45-minute mission turned into a 16-hour ordeal of bloody urban warfare. Helicopter-borne U.S. Rangers were assigned to capture key lieutenants of Somali warlord Muhammad Farrah Aidid, but when two Black Hawk choppers were felled by rocket-propelled grenades, the U.S. soldiers were forced to fend for themselves in the battle-torn streets of Mogadishu, attacked from all sides by armed Aidid supporters. Based on author Mark Bowden's bestselling account of the battle, Scott's riveting, action-packed film follows a sharp ensemble cast in some of the most authentic battle sequences ever filmed. The loss of 18 soldiers turned American opinion against further involvement in Somalia, but Black Hawk Down makes it clear that the men involved were undeniably heroic.

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History Channel - Battlefield Detectives - The Jewish Revolt Against Rome The Siege Of Masada Movies

Posted by Historyarm at March 14, 2011

Masada, siege of (ad 73), one of the final acts of the Jewish revolt against Rome which began in ad 66. Masada, a high outcrop of rock by the Dead Sea, had been fortified in the mid-2nd century bc and again by Herod the Great in the 30s bc. It was seized early in the revolt by the Sicarii sect of alleged assassins led by Eleazar ben Yair. In ad 73, with Jerusalem captured and the rest of the province subdued, the Roman governor, Flavius Silva, laid siege with Legion X Fretensis. The account by the turncoat Jewish leader and historian Josephus claims to have been derived from the two women survivors, but is regarded as heavily embroidered (though confirmed in outline by archaeological excavation in the 1950s and 1960s). Over several months Silva constructed a siege wall, with towers and eight camps, right round the plateau, and then an assault ramp up which he rolled a massive siege tower equipped with a battering ram and artillery. The final assault, on the day after the defences had been breached and fired, revealed that the 960 defenders had taken their own lives.

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PBS - FRONTLINE: American Terrorist (2015) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Sept. 11, 2015

FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate American-born terrorist David Coleman Headley, who played a key role in planning the deadly 2008 siege on Mumbai. In this film, Thomas Jennings and Sebastian Rotella update and expand upon their collaborative 2011 documentary, A Perfect Terrorist, to include new revelations that international intelligence agencies had technology in place to spy on one of the Mumbai masterminds, but failed to detect and stop the plot in a historic near-miss as reported in 2015 exclusively by The New York Times, ProPublica, and FRONTLINE based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden. This film presents new analysis that raises questions about the efficacy of mass electronic surveillance programs, showing that spy agencies failed to detect Headley before and after the Mumbai attacks and challenging claims that NSA programs played a key role in his capture. Exclusive accounts from investigators demonstrate how the FBI finally identified, tracked and captured Headley, who became an important witness for the agency. This is a chilling, comprehensive portrait of an American terrorist–and a troubling case study of the limitations of even the most sophisticated electronic surveillance capabilities.

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État de siège / State of Siege (1972) Movies

Posted by fekmax at April 17, 2015

In Uruguay in the early 1970s, an official of the US Agency for International Development (a group used as a front for training foreign police in counterinsurgency methods) is kidnapped by a group of urban guerillas. Using his interrogation as a backdrop, the film explores the often brutal consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerillas.

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État de siège / State of Siege (1972) [The Criterion Collection] Movies

Posted by yorkiez at Aug. 3, 2015

In Uruguay in the early 1970s, an official of the US Agency for International Development (a group used as a front for training foreign police in counterinsurgency methods) is kidnapped by a group of urban guerillas. Using his interrogation as a backdrop, the film explores the often brutal consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerillas.

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