Discovery Channel Documentaries
Season 1997
TV-G
Documentaries that have been produced by the Discovery Channel.
Where to Watch Season 1997
15 Episodes
- Our Time in Hell The Korean War Part 1E5
Our Time in Hell The Korean War Part 1On 25 June 1950, the North Korean army invaded South Korea, violating a truce struck at the end of World War II, and starting a conflict that would bring the U.S., China, and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war. By August 1950, the North Koreans had pushed the ill-prepared American and United Nations forces into a small area around the port city of Pusan. Facing strong opposition from President Truman and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Douglas MacArthur launched a massive invasion of the port of Inchon and went on to recapture Seoul, turning the tide of the war. When the North Koreans retreated to their homeland, MacArthur followed them, assuring a skeptical Truman that the Chinese would not enter the war. Little did he know that Chairman Mao was sending a quarter-million troops into North Korea to repel the Americans and take the whole peninsula. Our Time in Hell tells the story of the Korean War with newsreels, old footage and extensive interviews with American soldiers. - On the Brink: DoomsdayE7
On the Brink: DoomsdayHiroshima. August 6, 1945: the atomic bomb explodes. More than 70,000 dead and many more are wounded. That day, mankind discovers the power of nuclear weapons and it discovers the fear that comes with it too. A few years later the H-Bomb explodes in the Pacific Ocean. The fear and paranoia grow in an alarming way and in the next 50 years, during the Cold War, humanity almost disappears in accidental nuclear apocalypse. In this travel across time military and war experts explain how the human race was very near total extinction by a nuclear holocaust. A danger what still exists today. - BattleshipE9
BattleshipA history of battleships. Tells the stories of (among others): the Bismarck, the Yamato, the Prince of Wales, the Repulse, and the USS Missouri. Over nearly one hundred year history, no other warships in the world have so distinguished themselves as the battleships. For every nation, they have become the ultimate “Ships of State.” As proud symbols of naval might, as powerful floating fortresses, as the home of a unique community of “Battleship Sailors” and major instruments of national policy in war and peace, battleships remain unique in the annals of naval history. This is the story of the battleship, as a symbol and as a fighting machine. Reinvented again and again. - The Floating Inferno - Yarmouth CastleE14
The Floating Inferno - Yarmouth CastleThe Yarmouth Castle embarked on an overnight trip from Miami to the Bahamas every weekend until November 1965 when this mdnight cruise to paradise became a floating inferno that left 87 passengers dead. When a small storeroom fire went undetected, it let to one of the deadliest American shipwrecks since the 1930's. The fire was finally disocvered, but it was too late. Firehoses malfunctioned, radio equipment was destroyed, communication broke down, alarms failed, the captain abandoned ship, passengers panicked. Survivor and crew interviews, thrilling re-enactments, rare film footage, and frightening details reveal the bravery, terror and mystery aboard the Yarmouth Castle.
