War Documentary Films

The 83 men of Class 234 selected for Basic Underwater Demolition (SEAL-BUDS) training have the toughest six months of their lives in sight. While they’ve been selected from over 1,500 applicants, only 32 of them will actually become U.S. Navy SEALs. Go behind a structured world of sacrifice designed to force BUDS students to the [...]

For the first time in 25 years the Australian SAS lift their veil of secrecy to reveal what it takes to pass the toughest military selection course in the world. Using the toughest military selection course in the world they are looking for the right type of solider. This is a search for warriors. 130 [...]

The French Foreign Legion has long been the stuff of adventure and romance.  The March or Die heroism of Beau Geste’s comrades against the Arabs in North Africa or being the foreign soldiers sent to do the dirtiest and hardest work for France. Joining recruits leave behind their pasts – ordinary or shady – and [...]

For generations, the French Foreign Legion has been romanticised as a refuge for men seeking a second chance in life. But what is it really like? In Escape to the Legion, adventurer and explorer Bear Grylls sets off to find out with 11 other recruits who come from all walks of life. A disorderly band [...]

With extraordinary, unprecedented access, Surviving the Cut takes viewers into the intense world of military elite forces training. From divers and snipers to para-rescue men and bomb specialists, the elite and how they earn a place in the coveted units are the focus in this compelling all new series.   Buy Surviving The Cut – [...]

The U.S. Army Special Forces Green Berets are America’s unconventional warfare specialists. Whereas the military’s focus usually is on brute-force tactics, the Green Berets rely on creative, innovative and stealthy tactics to destabilize an enemy from within. They are experts in guerrilla warfare, sabotage, and subversion. They live as the locals do, and they live [...]

In Commando: On the Front Line director Chris Terrill embarks on a courageous 12-month journey to Afghanistan alongside Britain’s most elite front line troops–the Royal Marine Commandos. A division of the Royal Navy, the Royal Marine Commando directs the most physically and mentally challenging training regime of any military contingent in the United Kingdom, and [...]

For the first time ever the Royal Australian Navy has provided exclusive access to the Navy’s most intense training program for its Clearance Diver Branch – an elite unit at the frontline of national security. Over the course of nine months, it will take them to the limits of their mental and physical endurance. Only [...]

Within the Marine Corps exists a group called the Third Reconnaissance Battalion whose primary mission is gathering intelligence on the enemy. Recon marines routinely operate in small and self-sufficient teams – many times they patrol deep into enemy battle space with no immediate support from aircraft or artillery. In a conflict with no front lines, [...]

Combat School is a documentary series that follows – for the first time ever – Canadian infantry soldiers as they undergo the most technologically-advanced, intense and realistic combat training in military history. Granted unprecedented access, the cameras go directly to the heart of modern warfare by following a platoon of 40 men and women from [...]

Documentary that explores the training and mindset of modern soldiers.                  

NZ S.A.S.: First Among Equals is a world first – an exclusive documentary series about the inner workings of this country’s most famous elite, the “top 1 percenters” of the New Zealand defence force – better known as the NZ S.A.S. Based on 2 years of unprecedented access, this New Zealand series includes never before [...]

How easy is it to kill in battle? War footage and Hollywood-style dramatisations of battle abound, showing men killing each other. But what is it really like to take someone’s life? Most young men are sure that if it came down to it they could kill for their country. But when British comedian and journalist [...]

For the very first time cameras have been allowed behind the scenes at the royal palaces to see the historic and hidden world of the Grenadier Guards. With their bearskins and red tunics they are the most recognisable soldiers in the British Army. They are the very public face of royal ceremony – resplendent in [...]

Documentary about the history and recruitment process of the British army’s Gurkha’s. The soldiers are selected from young men living in the hills of Nepal – with about 28,000 youths tackling the selection procedure for just over 200 places each year. The selection process has been described as one of the toughest in the world [...]

Documentary following the Grenadier Guards as they prepare to lead the 2010 Trooping the Colour. But these men have had precious little time to prepare; as fighting soldiers, they have just spent six months on the front line in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. This is the story of how one and a half thousand men and [...]

The 4-part series follows four men aged between 18 and 22 from their basic training in Catterick, North Yorkshire to their destiny in Helmand province, where several of them will end up fighting for their lives. With news of death and destruction from the frontline being a continuous cause of concern, Afghanistan is never far [...]

With extraordinary and privileged access, Sandhurst is a three-part observational documentary shot at the Royal Military Academy over the course of a year. The series follows the journey of one intake of cadets, both male and female, through the 200-year-old institution – three gruelling terms that turn them from civilians into officers, from followers into [...]