Until the 1968 Vietnam“TET” offensive America won every battle that it took upon itself to engage in. Thereafter it is questionable whether it has triumphed in any War. TV pictures of the last helicopters leaving Saigon’s American embassy roof told us in images that the ascent of the Imperial USA Empire was on the wane. [...]
The Pearl Harbour Collection – Pearl Harbour 24 Hours After
We have recently featured a documentary on the attack on Pearl Harbour. This History Channel DVD release tells the story of that famous event but from a very different angle. How did the President of America react to what was up until 9/11 the greatest intelligence failure in American history? In an era of limited [...]
The Pacific – Hell On Earth (The Lost Evidence)
This examination of Pearl Harbour and The Battle of Guadalcanal is released for the first time on DVD from the History Channel. Brilliant in it’s planning utterly ruthless in it’s execution, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour was described by the American President F. D. Roosevelt as a “Day of Infamy”. It is without doubt [...]
Tony Scott – Film Director
It was just a couple of weeks ago that we featured the History Channel’s “Gettysburg” documentary film co produced by the world famous Ridley brothers Ridley and Tony Scott. It is with some sadness that we all learnt of the sad and distressing death of Tony Scott last week. Tony was the high octane director [...]
The History Of The World in Two Hours (DVD)
Why and how are our seas and sky blue and did you know that all of our mountains come from outer space? These mind-boggling facts are the throwaway asides that mesmerized me when I innocently pressed play when this wonderful DVD came my way to review. With a brief to tell the history of the [...]
World War II in 3D (Bluray DVD)
World War 2 was the most destructive event in human history. Recent calculations have established that for the nearly five years duration of the War the daily death toll amounted to 70,000.It is indeed chilling to realise that the vast majority of these casualties were of civilian’s men women and children killed on the “home [...]