Warfare

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.

PBS - Nova: Secret Tunnel Warfare (2016)
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 4122 Kbps | 52mn 9s | Audio: English AC3 128 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None | 1.58 GiB
Genre: Documentary

During World War I, the Allies and Germans repeatedly struggled to break the hideous stalemate of trench warfare. In the winter of 1916, Allied engineers devised a massive surprise attack on the German army.. NOVA follows bomb disposal experts as they clear topsoil packed with shrapnel and unexploded shells and probe one tunnel system connected to what is probably the world's largest unexploded bomb–a mine consisting of 22 tons of explosives that was flooded by German engineers before the attack. "Secret Tunnel Warfare" opens a unique window on the frenzy of Allied mining activity that led up to the attack, and its bitter aftermath.