WW II Nurses Turned Prisoners of War | A Risky Plan | 5
The rations at the Los Baños P.O.W. camp are now down to just 400 calories per day. Every day, the nurses tend to patients who die from star...
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20 of 270 episodesWW II Nurses Turned Prisoners of War | A Taste of Freedom | 4
Conditions at the Los Baños camp are deteriorating. More and more prisoners have been transferred there, leading to overcrowding, and ration...
WW II Nurses Turned Prisoners of War | The Devil You Know | 3
Desperate to get away from the sadistic commandant in charge of their P.O.W. camp, the twelve Navy nurses, who call themselves the Twelve An...
WW II Nurses Turned Prisoners of War | Captured | 2
After Japan invades the Philippines, the twelve Navy nurses find themselves imprisoned at a military hospital turned P.O.W. camp. They make...
WW II Nurses Turned Prisoners of War | An Act of War | 1
It’s the Depression and twenty-three-year-old-Dorothy Still is desperate for a job. She joins the US Navy as a nurse, and by 1941, she’s giv...
Lightning Strike on Half Dome | Survive the Night | 2
As the hikers slowly regain consciousness, they realize the worst has happened: they’ve been struck by lightning. By chance, a pair of EMTs...
Lightning Strike on Half Dome | The Storm | 1
On the evening of July 27, 1985, a group of friends decided to ignore gathering storm clouds and warnings as they climbed to the top of Yose...
In Their Own Words: Chris Lemons – Deep Sea Diving Crisis | 1
In 2012, Chris Lemons had a bright future ahead, with a fiancee and a good job fixing oil infrastructure on the ocean floor. One night in Se...
FAN FAVORITE: Alaska Bear Attack | Three Long Hours | 2
After Bart Pieciul is mauled by a bear in the Alaska wilderness, his friends have to use all of their outdoor knowledge to keep him alive. T...
FAN FAVORITE: Alaska Bear Attack | In Defense of Life and Property | 1
The residents of Haines, Alaska are used to living alongside bears. The region surrounding their small town has one of the densest bear popu...
Schoolchildren's Blizzard | Not Forgotten | 5
Early settlers to the Midwest were accustomed to harsh winters, but the blizzard that hit the Great Plains on January 12th, 1888 caught thou...
Schoolchildren's Blizzard | The Frozen Remains | 4
By the morning of January 13th, 1888, the blizzard had passed, and a frantic search for survivors began. Farmer Johann Albrecht looked for h...
Schoolchildren's Blizzard | Exposed | 3
As the blizzard raged, its winds blew up to 60 miles per hour. Those caught out in the storm faced white-out conditions. With few landmarks...
Schoolchildren's Blizzard | Into the Swirling White | 2
On January 12th, 1888, residents of the Dakota Territory and Nebraska woke to an unseasonably warm day. Farmers took advantage of the mild w...
Schoolchildren's Blizzard | No Warning | 1
In the 1800s millions of people moved to the American midwest, drawn by promises of cheap, fertile land. But they were caught unprepared in...
Madre de Dios: Stranded in the Amazon | Still Waters | 3
More than a week into their ordeal, Fitz and Holly FitzGerald are trapped deep in a jungle swamp. Jaguars scream in the night, insects ravag...
Madre de Dios: Stranded in the Amazon | Dead End | 2
Fitz and Holly FitzGerald set out on their handmade raft, the Pink Palace, drifting down the Madre de Dios under sparkling sunlight. But whe...
Madre de Dios: Stranded in the Amazon | Delayed Honeymoon | 1
In 1973, American newlyweds Fitz and Holly FitzGerald travel to Peru, hoping to ride a riverboat down the wild Madre de Dios River on their...
FAN FAVORITE: Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping | Buried Alive | 2
The kidnapped children and their bus driver are trapped underground in the back of a moving truck, and they’re running out of food and water...
FAN FAVORITE: Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping | Vanished | 1
In the summer of 1976, three masked gunmen hijack a school bus full of children in rural Chowchilla, California. The twenty-six kids and the...
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