Against the Odds - Season 1

Episodes

The Marines at Hue

The city of Hue, South Vietnam, was the site of one of the fiercest battles of the Vietnam War. Three understrength U.S. Marine battalions, consisting of fewer than 2,500 men, attacked and soundly defeated overwhelming, entrenched enemy troops.

Mar 3, 2014

Season 1Episode 260 min

Live to Tell: Those Damned Engineers

The Germans muster a force of 600,000 troops in December 1944 in an offensive to capture the heart of the Allied supply chain in Antwerp. A look at how Allied combat engineers tried to thwart German advances during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 by destroying roads and bridges.

Mar 10, 2014

Season 1Episode 360 min

The Heroes of Tarawa

American forces launch an across-the-beach infantry attack on the heavily fortified, Japanese-held atoll of Tarawa. Everything went wrong in America's first test of whether the Japanese-held islands of the Pacific, the key steppingstones to the doorstep of Japan, could be captured by across-the-beach infantry assaults.

Mar 17, 2014

Season 1Episode 460 min

The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill

U.S. Marines struggle to capture an elevated Japanese strongpoint on the island of Okinawa during World War II. Taking an otherwise nondescript hill on the embattled island of Okinawa proved to be one of the most incredible battles of WWII. The young weary marines of Charlie Company strained against the searing Pacific sun to see the top of Sugar Loaf Hill.

Mar 24, 2014

Season 1Episode 560 min

Bloody George at the Chosin Reservoir

This is the untold true story of "Bloody George," an understrength, undermanned, marine rifle company, hastily called to serve their country in 1950 at the start of the Korean War. Their courage would be legendary, their fight, epic.

Mar 31, 2014

Season 1Episode 660 min

A Chance in Hell: The Battle of Ramadi

When Army Colonel Sean MacFarland arrived in Iraq's deadliest city, the odds could not have been worse. Al-Qaeda has declared Ramadi, capital of a new caliphate. The boys of MacFarland's Ready First Combat Team would fight to give America a clear victory.

Apr 14, 2014

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