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From camouflage and covert reconnaissance to stealth bombers and radar-defying aircraft, this episode explores the technology that transformed modern warfare. Discover how militaries learned to hide from the enemy—and the cutting-edge systems developed to detect them.

Discover the wild true story of Finding Fidel. In 1958, war cameraman Erik Durschmied trekked into Cuba’s Sierra Maestra mountains to track down and interview a little-known rebel leader: Fidel Castro. Just weeks later, Castro’s revolution took Havana and changed world history forever. Director: Bay Weyman

Modern warfare has been transformed by advances in communications, surveillance and stealth. This episode explores the evolution of covert technology—from the humble ghillie suit to the radar-evading B-2 Spirit—and the cutting-edge systems designed to detect even the most elusive targets.

Military operations leave deep, lasting scars on our planet’s ecosystems. From radioactive landscapes and toxic battlefields to millions of tons of dumped ocean munitions, the environmental footprint of modern warfare affects us all, contributing up to ten percent of global carbon emissions. In this documentary, we explore the devastating connection between warfare and ecological destruction across history: World War I Battlefields: The historical origins of modern ecocide and landscape destruction. Cold War Nuclear Secrets: Uncovering forgotten radioactive complexes in the Arctic regions. Vietnam’s Agent Orange: Investigating the decades-long impact of toxic dioxin contamination. Submerged Hazards: Exploring sunken shipwrecks and chemical munitions on the Baltic seafloor and Canadian coastline. Target Ranges in Paradise: How decades of military testing reshaped pristine Caribbean island habitats. What does it take to fuel global military machinery, and what resources are consumed when conflict occurs? Explore the hidden environmental cost of war and the true state of our global eco-balance. Title: Footprints of War: Nature Under Fire Director: Maximilian Mönch Producer: Gregor Streiber / Werwiewas Medienproduktion

From the Sandinista Revolution to the Iran-Contra scandal, this documentary explores how the Cold War turned Nicaragua and El Salvador into battlegrounds. Discover how the United States, the Soviet Union and Cuba fought a covert war through proxy armies, secret operations and political intrigue—leaving a legacy of violence that still shapes Central America today.

Discover unpublished and rarely seen photographs from the Battle of Berlin in 1945, brought together in an exclusive collection for history enthusiasts. More than 200 historical photographs take you through the final days of the Third Reich and reveal scenes rarely shown in documentaries. During World War II, drugs played a much more important role than usually appears in traditional accounts of the conflict. Millions of soldiers fought under extreme conditions of exhaustion, fear, hunger, and sleep deprivation, and several armies resorted to stimulant substances to keep their men awake and operational for long periods. Germany was one of the most famous cases with Pervitin, a methamphetamine distributed among members of the Wehrmacht, especially during the rapid campaigns of the war's early years. However, the consumption of stimulants was not exclusively German: the Allies also used substances such as Benzedrine, based on amphetamines. During campaigns such as the invasion of France in 1940 or Operation Barbarossa in 1941, some German soldiers could remain awake for extraordinarily long periods thanks to Pervitin. These substances temporarily reduced the feeling of fatigue and