This series of seven one-hour films examines the nature, evolution and consequences of modern warfare. Filmed in ten countries, on two oceans, and with the co-operation of the armed forces of six nations, War features interviews with top-level NATO and Soviet military leaders and strategists, eminent historians and other professional observers of combat. Drawing as well on film and picture archives worldwide, with footage of important battlefields on three continents, this documentary series argues that war, an institution invented to settle disputes between nations, no longer serves its purpose. It concludes that nations must find other ways to resolve their differences. The on-camera host for the War series is Gwynne Dyer, Canadian international affairs analyst and military historian.
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Air Date: 1983-10-02
Dyer analyzes two centuries of world military history and defines the milestones along the road to total war: the bir...
Air Date: 1983-10-09
Photographed on location at the United States Marine Corps Parris Island Training Depot in South Carolina, this film ...
Air Date: 1983-10-16
This film is about professional soldiers--the career officers who devote their lives to maintaining military organiza...
Air Date: 1983-10-23
To explain the link between war and nationalism, The Deadly Game of Nations focuses on the Middle East, a volatile ar...
Air Date: 1983-10-30
Along the vigilantly patrolled line separating East and West Germany lie half the world's conventional (non-nuclear) ...
Air Date: 1983-11-06
This film follows the development of the nuclear arms race from Hiroshima to the nuclear stalemate of today. It exami...
Air Date: 1983-11-13
Goodbye War looks at some of the causes and consequences of the last two World Wars and of recent small conflicts tha...