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- After the Black September capture and massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, five men are chosen to eliminate the people responsible for that fateful day.
- The story of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the 1975 OPEC meeting.
- An American adventurer goes to Tripoli to rescue some kidnapped sailors, but gets involved with a beautiful slave girl.
- After the Italian occupation in Tripoli, Major Enver, who saw that the Ottoman Empire was in a difficult situation, went to Tripoli with his patriotic friends like Mustafa Kemal, to organize the natives to drive out the invaders.
- In 1805, the United States battles the pirates of Tripoli as the Marines fight to raise the American flag
- The U.S. government sends Major Thomas Blake on a secret mission when the Bey of Tripoli starts demanding tribute from American merchant ships in the Mediterranean in the early 1800's. His pose as a Tory on the ship alienates his fellow passengers, Anne Ridgeway, and her brother Sam. Off Tripoli, the ship is captured by the Bey's pirates, but Blake makes a friend of the Bey when he saves his life. Blake learns that a servant girl, Zoltah, and her friends ate plotting to kill the Bey, and that the Bey also has a spy in the State Department, Tobias Sharpe, who sends advance information about American ship movements.
- Documentary on the Battle of Tripoli Harbor.
- To escape an arranged marriage, a young Italian girl marries an older man, a military officer who is also a family friend, and when he is assigned to North Africa, she accompanies him. His unit is sent into the desert to subdue some unruly tribes, and when he is later reported killed in action, his widow marries a young soldier with whom she has fallen in love. However, word soon comes back that her "dead" husband is very much alive.
- A man who feels disconnected from his origins finds a way to reconnect with them
- Lowell Thomas, shortly after Italy invaded Libya, takes a look at the political importance of the country, especially the mobile Lybian Army Corps which Benito Mussolini is building up. The threat of a well-mobilized army in Lybia near its border, which is only a short distance from the Suez Canal, is commented on by Thomas. The contrast between the Lybian capital, Tripoli, and the stark primitive conditions of the rest of the country is also highlighted.
- We tell the story of the crucial battles for control of the Mediterranean, North Africa, and the irreplaceable oil fields in World War 2 and the story of the war in Greece.
- The campaign in Tunisia in World War Two saw the battles that finally ended the brutal war in the desert. We look at the weapons used and tactics and tell the story of the battle itself.
- The story of the longest serving infantry division in the US Army, who fought in every major campaign in Western Europe in which American forces were engaged.
- The story of the armoured units who landed in Normandy to spearhead the Allied advance into Nazi occupied Europe and break open the Third Reich's defences.
- Two-part documentary about six men from the Fifth Royal Tank Regiment. Part 1 tells their story from Dunkirk to the deserts of North Africa and back in preparation for D-Day.
- A nice journey of Sophie from Beirut (Chadia Attieh and her colored taxi, the traffic jams, the meeting with Tania Haddjithomas Mehanna-the editor-, the walk through the town,the lighthouse-Victor the warden telling the story of the lighthouse, Mona and the story of the Yellow House) to Saïda (Hania Osta, the abandoned synagogue and the falafel) passing by the Grottos of Jeita (Johnny Tawk, the speleologist, the boat tour, the upper part of the grotto) , by Tripoli (Elias Khlat, the coffee in the souk), by Bcharrie (Aline Tawk, the reforestation with the Lebanon cedar), by Baalbek ( the visit of the temples with Mouhamed Wehbe) and by Kefraya (Michel de Bustros, the manager of the Château Kefraya, the tasting of wine with Frabrice Guiberteau. Besides we see zooms about the Lebanon civil war, about the unemployment in Lebanon, about the Lebanese society , about the nightlife in Beirut, about the the protection of the architectural patrimony, about Tripoli and the making of soaps, about the valley of Qadisha (the monasteries and the Maronites sisters), and about the traditional cuisine of Lebanon (the labne, the Tawlet project , the growing of roses for the rose water).
- As the war entered its third year, fear of the Blitz receded. A period of retrenchment began with rationing, digging for victory, land girls and home guard exercises becoming part of everyday life.
- Episode: (1960)1959–196322mTV-G7.1 (31)TV EpisodeRocky and Bullwinkle - "Metal Eating Mice" Part 9, Aesop and Son - "The Vain Crow", Peabody's Improbable History - "Stephen Decatur", Rocky and Bullwinkle - "Metal Eating Mice" Part 10.