An investigation into the introduction of torture as an interrogation technique in U.S. facilities, and the role played by key figures of the Bush Administration in the process. Takes an in-depth look at the case of Afghan taxi driver Dilawar, who was suddenly detained by the U.S. military one afternoon in 2002 and died in his Bagram prison cell five days later.

The aftermath of the failed breakout is felt and General Hamilton requests more troops while many of his officers dissent. Bartlett sends a letter to the British Prime Minister via the Australian reporter Murdoch.

The true story of how the British attacked German dams in WWII by using an ingenious technique to drop bombs where they would be most effective. Starring Michael Redgrave.

Three senior Vietnam War veterans and a grieving whanau share stories of being haunted by the ghosts of war in this moving local documentary.

Ngāti Tūmatauenga is a reality documentary series that follows Māori recruits through their Basic Training programme in their efforts to join the NZ Army.

Two boys are born in Parma, Italy on the day of composer Giuseppe Verdi's death in 1901. Alfredo Berlinghieri is the son of a wealthy landowner and Olmo Dalco is the son of a poverty-stricken peasant who becomes a communist and labor organizer. Though the boys are childhood friends, they increasingly come into conflict as adults as Alfredo panders to the increasingly powerful fascists while Olmo fights relentlessly against Mussolini's followers. [Part one of two]

Kiwi security contractors in Iraq describe their situation a pact with the Devil, risking their lives for more money than most had ever dreamed of. The story of New Zealand security consultants and the work they do on the war torn streets of Baghdad.

In this award-winning documentary from Gaylene Preston, seven New Zealand women share stories of love and loss during the Second World War.

In this Kiwi-Aussie co-production Sam Neill confronts what ‘Anzac’ means, a century after NZ and Australian troops landed at Gallipoli as part of an invasion by British-led forces to capture the Turkish territory. Through the lens of his whānau’s war stories (including a visit to his grandfather's grave) Neill uncovers forgotten truths about the catastrophic campaign, and examines ways the Anzac myth has been manipulated. "I hate militarism, loathe nationalism but honour those who served.” The full doco screened to acclaim on Māori Television on Anzac Day 2015. [From NZ On Screen]

The dramatised story of New Zealand air marshal Keith Park who led the RAF into battle against Hitler's Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain 1940. The documentary fuses war archive, scripted drama and feature film footage to bring the story to life.

This war drama chronicles the experiences of an idealistic young German soldier who is sent to the front lines in the latter stages of WW1.

The Academy Award winning film about a Polish-Jewish musician as he struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.

Through actual footage, interviews, and declassified documents, Michael Moore illustrates the connections President Bush has to the royal house of Saud of Saudia Arabia and the bin Laden's, how the president got elected on fraudulent circumstances and then proceeded to blunder through his duties while ignoring warnings of the looming betrayal by his foreign partners. When the treachery hits with the 9/11 attacks, Moore explains how Bush failed to take immediate action to defend the nation.

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

The so-called "war on terror" or fierce competition for natural resources? We examine the increasing US and French military presence in Africa.

The Enemy Within is a moving film about Cambodia's ongoing fight against invisible enemies in a war that ended years ago, land mines. We travel through Cambodia to experience the daily lives of true heroes. Language is Khmer (Cambodian language). Alternative title: El Enemigo Oculto.

Set during the last months of World War II, a U.S. Army sergeant known as Wardaddy leads his crew on a mission behind enemy lines.

The extraordinary true story of Oliver Woodward and his platoon of ordinary Australian miners who tunnelled beneath enemy lines and changed the course of the war on the Western Front.

An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons.

President John F. Kennedy and his advisors consider how deeply the U.S. should get involved in South Vietnam as a communist insurgency and Buddhist protests intensify.

After nearly a century of French colonial rule, Vietnam emerges independent, but divided.

Annette, Lady Liverpool, the wife of Governor Lord Liverpool, inspired women and children throughout New Zealand to contribute to the war effort. They sewed shirts, knitted socks and collected money. Many soldiers expressed their gratitude for the parcels they received from the Lady Liverpool Fund.

Keith Caldwell was one of the most widely respected fighter pilots on the Western Front, especially when in command of No. 74 (‘Tiger’) Squadron. He was the highest-scoring New Zealand air ace of the First World War, with 25 credited victories. Had it not been for his indifferent marksmanship, he could have become one of the most outstanding aces of the war. On one occasion Caldwell survived a mid-air collision by skilfully guiding his crippled aircraft to the ground.

Rikihana (Bunny) Carkeek was a prominent Ngāti Raukawa leader from Ōtaki who served with the Native Contingent and the Pioneer Battalion during the First World War. He kept a detailed diary which provides great insights into the experience of Māori soldiers. At Gallipoli nearly all of his machine-gun crew were killed or wounded during the attack on Chunuk Bair. Carkeek survived both Gallipoli and the Western Front, and returned home an officer.

The battle of Passchendaele represents the blackest day in New Zealand’s history. Far more New Zealanders died in a few hours on the morning of 12 October 1917 than on any other day in the country’s known history. Leonard Hart was one of the New Zealand soldiers engaged in the battle that day. His letter to his parents, which was smuggled out to avoid military censorship, is the most vivid extant record of the horrors of the battle.

Harold Gillies and Henry Pickerill’s pioneering treatment of soldiers with facial wounds during the First World War helped form the basis of modern plastic and facial reconstructive surgery. Gillies was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, and made a career in England; Pickerill was born in England and became the first director of the University of Otago’s dental school in Dunedin. During the First World War the two served at Queen Mary’s Hospital at Sidcup, Kent, a specialist hospital for facial injuries, where Gillies led the British section and Pickerill the New Zealand section. The two men were highly competitive and Pickerill, in particular, refused to acknowledge his Kiwi colleague’s contribution. But they each contributed to the development of plastic surgery.

Mark Briggs objected to taking part in the First World War on socialist grounds. He was arrested and became one of 14 conscientious objectors forcibly deported to Europe and sent to military camps. All of the men were humiliated and abused to try to make them give in, and Briggs was dragged across nail-studded duckboards because he would not walk to the front lines. Briggs and Archibald Baxter were the only two objectors who held out until their return to New Zealand.

Some 10,000 New Zealand horses went overseas to serve in the First World War. Some were packhorses, many of which helped on the Western Front. Bess was among the several thousand riding horses that served with New Zealand’s mounted forces in Sinai and Palestine, and were much loved by their riders. Bess was lucky to survive – she survived the dangers of being transported, and the high risk of being killed in action or dying of disease in the Middle East. She had to put up with poor feed, little water and extremes of heat and cold. Bess was the only horse from the Middle East to return home to New Zealand – and only three other horses returned from the Western Front.

An old boy of Wellington College, Thomas (Hāmi) Marshall Percy Grace of Ngāti Tūwharetoa was a talented sportsman. He played rugby for the New Zealand Māori teams that toured New Zealand in 1911 and Australia in 1913. He was also a talented cricketer, playing first-class cricket for Wellington. When war was declared in early August 1914 the 24-year old Grace was working as a clerk in the head office of the Post and Telegraph Department in Wellington. While most Māori servicemen enlisted in the Māori Contingent (later the Pioneer Battalion), Grace enlisted in the Wellington Regiment. He sailed with the Main Body two months later and landed at Anzac Cove with the Wellington Battalion in late April 1915. A noted marksman, he was an effective sniper at Gallipoli and his all-round talents soon saw him mentioned in despatches and promoted to Second Lieutenant. At the beginning of June the Wellingtons took over Courtney’s Post at the head of Monash Gully. Turkish snipers were picking off as many as 20 men a day moving up and down the gully. Grace, was placed in charge of a team of snipers and observers. Working in pairs, these men methodically noted subtle changes in the enemy lines that suggested the presence of snipers. On 2 June, Lieutenant-Colonel William Malone noted in his diary: 'Today we bagged two of the snipers and have quite altered the atmosphere.' Within a few weeks, traffic in the valley was unimpeded, at least by day. Australian historian Charles Bean wrote that: "Grace's snipers, posted throughout the valley, placed a barrier as impenetrable as any earthwork between the traffic in Monash Valley and the Turks whose trenches overlooked it. Thenceforward, provided the snipers were first warned, even a convoy of mules could go to the supply depot near the head of the gully at midday without a shot being fired at it." Grace and Malone, his commanding officer, were both killed on Chunuk Bair on 8 August 1915.

Charlotte Le Gallais (‘Lottie’) was one of 10 nurses who served on the first voyage of the New Zealand Hospital Ship Maheno, which went to the aid of the Anzac troops at Gallipoli. A lot is known about Lottie’s experiences on the Maheno from her diary and letters home.

An extraordinary account of two brothers, Gordon and Robin Harper, who fought side by side at Gallipoli and then in the Sinai campaign as machine gunners with the Canterbury Mounted Rifles. Members of a prominent Canterbury family, they were the youngest of seven sons of George and Agnes Harper. Four of their sons left to fight in the First World War; only two returned.

Ettie Rout promoted sexual health practices during the First World War in the face of strong public and governmental opposition. Her work was influential in the decision of the New Zealand Army to issue free prophylactic kits to soldiers; they adopted the kit that Rout had developed. She never received proper credit for her work during her lifetime, but soldiers recognised the value of her work and she was responsible for saving many lives from the effects of sexually transmitted infections.

Private Victor Spencer and Private Jack Braithwaite were two of 28 members of the NZEF sentenced to death during the First World War. Five of these men were sent before the firing squad: Spencer and Braithwaite, Private Frank Hughes, Private John Sweeney, and Private John King. Braithwaite was tried and executed by British military authorities for mutiny while the others were tried and executed by New Zealand authorities for desertion. In total 306 British and Commonwealth soldiers were executed after being convicted in courts-martial during the First World War. In September 2000 all five men received posthumous pardons when the New Zealand Parliament passed the Pardon for Soldiers of the Great War Act.

William George Malone, commander of the Wellington Infantry Battalion, was one of New Zealand's outstanding soldiers of the Gallipoli campaign. A believer in duty, hard work, and a stickler for cleanliness, he was at first hated by his men for his standards of discipline. At Gallipoli he became a huge admirer of New Zealand soldiers, and critical of imperial officers and wild Australians. He famously led the Wellington Infantry Battalion to capture Chunuk Bair before dawn on 8 August 1915, and hold off repeated Ottoman counter-attacks throughout the day; Malone was killed at 5pm that afternoon from friendly fire.

Teacher, soldier, war historian, pacifist, Methodist clergyman and writer, Ormond Burton served in the First World War with the New Zealand Field Ambulance, and helped tend to the wounded. He later joined the infantry and fought on the Western Front. Burton’s wartime experience and disillusionment with the Treaty of Versailles led to his pacifism. During the Second World War, he was a prominent conscientious objector.

New Zealand had no real navy of its own during the First World War. The outdated cruiser HMS Philomel, the country's first warship, reverted to Royal Navy command on the outbreak of the conflict and served without great incident in the Pacific, Red Sea and Mediterranean. At the same time, New Zealanders followed with intense interest the fortunes of a far larger and more impressive warship that bore the nation's name − HMS New Zealand. Although the vessel was never under New Zealand control and there were few Kiwis among its crew of 800, this sleek Indefatigable-class battlecruiser symbolised the Dominion's contribution to British sea power and the vital importance of the naval struggle to the outcome of the Great War.

Wellington-born Leslie Beauchamp died during a grenade training drill in October 1915 while serving with the British Expeditionary Force in Belgium. The death of her brother had a profound effect on the acclaimed writer Katherine Mansfield, leading to some of her most famous work.

Alexander Aitken was to become a distinguished professor of mathematics. A master of mental arithmetic, he specialised in performing difficult calculations. This skill would save his life on the Somme during the First World War. Badly wounded and trapped in no-man's-land, he noticed a regular pattern in the German shelling and worked out when it would hit the area he was lying in. The violin he carried at Gallipoli and on the Western Front is now a treasured artefact at Otago Boys' High School.

Around 9.15 a.m. on 23 October 1915, a German torpedo slammed into the transport ship Marquette as it entered the Gulf of Salonika in the Aegean Sea. The ship sank within 10 minutes, leaving hundreds struggling in the water. By the time rescue craft arrived several hours later, 167 people had drowned, including 32 New Zealanders (10 women and 22 men).

During her time working at the Aotea Convalescent Home in Cairo (1915-1919), New Zealand nurse Nora Hughes was given a tortoise by a wounded soldier who said he had found in the trenches at Gallipoli in 1915. When Sister Hughes returned to New Zealand in 1920 she brought the tortoise with her. Peter, as the tortoise became known, was a beloved family pet until his death in 1994. He is now immortalised in a children’s book written by Nurse Hughes’s great-great-niece Shona Riddell.

'Ranji' Wilson was an All Black between 1908 and 1914. The only New Zealander of West Indian heritage to have played for the All Blacks, he was dropped from the New Zealand Army team's 1919 tour of South Africa on racial grounds.

Peter Howden's letters to his wife Rhoda comprise one of the largest collections of war writing in New Zealand. The Wellington-born officer made it a rule to write to her every day they were apart, even when he was at the front. Sadly, Peter and Rhoda were never reunited. Gassed at Passchendaele, Howden died in hospital a few days later.

In 1915 around 150 Niuean men set sail from their island home for war service overseas as labourers in the New Zealand (Māori) Pioneer Battalion. They were thrust into a bewildering environment – many did not speak English, the food was different and their army uniforms were scratchy and uncomfortable – and a climate wholly different to that of Niue. Disease soon took its toll. Among these men was 19-year-old Falaoa, a young Niuean who fell ill while labouring on the Western Front. Separated from his countrymen, he endured the isolating experience of a hospital stay in London before former missionaries to Niue, Frank and Sarah Lawes, came to visit. Falaoa survived the war, but many of his fellow islanders were not so lucky and never returned home.

New Zealand sent 40 or so veterinarians and hundreds of handlers to take care of the approximately 10,000 horses, which served in the First World War. Captain Thomas Blake was among the vets who looked after the horses; he received the Belgian Croix de Guerre for his efforts. The work was challenging — Blake and his fellow vets had to deal with war wounds and diseases suffered by the horses in the Middle East desert and later the mud and trenches of the Western Front. Despite the grim reality of his war work, Blake found time for a personal milestone: in August 1915, he married his English sweetheart Mabel Deane in a ceremony in the desert just outside Cairo.

Upper Hutt farm worker Harry Varnham was keen to do his bit for the war effort but his experience in the front lines would have a lifelong impact on his mental health. In 1916, although too young, he enlisted in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. He was sent to the Western Front, where he faced the horrors of trench warfare and was severely wounded, resulting in the loss of his right leg. Harry returned home to New Zealand and built a life for himself, eventually marrying and having children. Sadly, he was never quite the same. War had taken its toll and he struggled to escape the mental scars of his experience. Decades later Harry took his own life.

William 'Bill' Dobson was fighting on the Western Front in April 1918 when the Germans captured him at Méteren, in northern France, during the Spring Offensive. He was one of 210 men captured that day — the largest group of New Zealanders taken prisoner at any one time — and spent the rest of the war in a German prisoner of war camp. Conditions were rough but Bill found solace in his sketchbook and in performing with the camp concert party. After the war, he returned home to work as a cabinetmaker. Like many men who had fought, he sought comfort in alcohol, but after meeting and marrying vaudeville performer Louise Morris, Bill gave up drinking and resumed his passion for performance.

Originally from the Mount Lebanon area then part of the Ottoman province of Syria, Rizk Alexander had only been in New Zealand for three years when he decided to join the war effort. Very few Ottoman subjects joined the New Zealand forces during the war. From a Lebanese Christian family, Rizk had enlisted in the hope of being able to fight against the Ottomans at either Gallipoli or in the Middle East, but he was instead sent to the Western Front. He proved himself in the fighting but suffered gas poisoning which ended his war service and led to his death in 1924, aged just 27.

Among the men who served in the New Zealand Tunnelling Company during the First World War was Victor Low. A surveyor born and raised in Dunedin to Chinese parents, Victor enlisted for war service in 1917. He joined the Tunnellers on the Western Front several months after they had finished working on the tunnels and caverns under the town of Arras in preparation for an Allied offensive in April 1917. He worked with the Tunnellers to construct trenches and roads and carried out other engineering work such as bridge building. After the war Victor spent time at Sling Camp in England before returning to New Zealand. While at Sling, he helped construct the large Bulford Kiwi on the hillside overlooking the camp.

Dr Jessie Scott faced trying and hazardous conditions serving on the Serbian and Russian front lines during the First World War. A member of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service, Jessie served in Serbia in 1915, tending to wounded Serbian and British soldiers until she became an Austrian prisoner of war. She was eventually released and returned to her work, this time on the Russian front lines in Romania. After the war, Jessie was awarded the Order of St Sava, third class, for her work with the Serbian army.

A documentary that covers the lead-up to World War II through to the Vietnam War with rare, contemporary colour footage.