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War has played a key role in the history of the United States from the nation’s founding right down to the present. Wars made the U. S. independent, kept it together, increased its size, and...
James and Sean discuss the 2001 made-for-television movie The Lost Battalion, in which an American battalion becomes isolated and surrounded...
In this episode, Sean and James return to the Western Front to examine the Hundred Days' Offensives—the relentless Allied campaign tha...
James and Sean discuss the epic, multi award-winning 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia, based on British Colonel T. E. Lawrence's autobiographica...
In this episode, Sean and James examine the dramatic final campaigns of World War I in the Caucasus, the Balkans, and Italy before turning t...
In this episode, Sean and James review the 2017 film Journey's End, a claustrophobic World War I drama set in a British dugout on the Wester...
This episode examines Germany's final bid for victory in 1918: the massive Spring Offensives that aimed to break the Allied line before Amer...
In this episode, Sean and James discuss the final events of 1917 in Europe. They begin with the Eastern Front's collapse before the Bolshevi...
James and Sean discuss the classic 1941 film Sergeant York, which tells the fascinating story of Alvin York, one of the most decorated Ameri...
In this episode, Sean and James trace America's complex journey from neutrality to full-fledged participation in World War I. They explore W...
James and Sean discuss the 2010 Australian film Beneath Hill 60, which tells the fascinating story of an Australian tunneling company trying...
In this episode, Sean and James examine the brutal 1917 campaign at Third Ypres, better known as Passchendaele, which was one of the most in...
This episode explores the twin revolutions that upended Russia in 1917 and reshaped the course of World War I. Sean and James trace the coll...
James and Sean discuss the 2011 film War Horse, in which a young Englishman struggles to be reunited with his beloved horse, who has been se...
In this episode, Sean and James turn south and east to explore the lesser-known fronts of World War I in 1916 and 1917. From the brutal moun...
In this episode, Sean and James discuss the oldest film they have reviewed to date. Wings (1927) is a silent epic that follows two young Ame...
In this episode, Sean and James take to the skies to explore the dramatic rise of air combat during World War I. We trace how fragile, open-...
In this episode, Sean and James review the 1999 film The Trench. The Trench follows a group of young British soldiers during the tense hours...
In this episode, Sean and James return to the Western Front to examine the Battle of the Somme—the bloodiest and most infamous clash o...
This episode presents an overview of the Brusilov Offensive of 1916, Russia's most successful campaign of World War I. General Alexei Brusil...
In this episode, Sean and James explore the crucial naval dimension of World War I, where technological innovation and global strategy colli...
In this episode, Sean and James discuss the 1997 film Regeneration, a powerful drama set in Craiglockhart War Hospital during World War I. W...
In this episode Sean and James examine the Battle of Verdun, the first of 1916's colossal offensives and one of the longest and bloodiest ba...
James and Sean discuss the 1981 Australian film Gallipoli, which tells the story of a group of Australian young men who are introduced to th...
In this episode, Sean and James turn to the Eastern Mediterranean to examine the Ottoman Empire's entry into the Great War and the tragic Al...
James and Sean discuss the classic 1957 anti-war film Paths of Glory, starring Kirk Douglas. In this film, a French colonel tries to save th...
In this episode, Sean and James explore how World War I spread beyond the Western Front into a truly global conflict. They trace massive cam...
James and Sean discuss the award-winning 2019 film 1917, in which two British soldiers are sent on a dangerous mission to save another unit...
In this episode, Sean and James dive deep into the gritty realities of trench warfare on the Western Front. They explore the evolution of tr...
James and Sean discuss the outstanding 2018 Peter Jackson documentary They Shall Not Grow Old, which combines interviews with British World...
In this episode, Sean and James step away from battles and politics to focus on the daily lives of the ordinary men who fought in World War...
While the Western Front quickly descended into trench warfare, the fighting in the East remained highly mobile, spanning vast distances acro...
In this episode, Sean and James explore Jean Renoir's The Grand Illusion (1937), a World War I masterpiece that examines class, nationalism,...
In August 1914, the German army launched an invasion of Belgium as a first step to their planned march through France and capture of Paris....
In this episode, James and special guest Sean McIver discuss the classic 1930 anti-war film All Quiet on the Western Front. Based on the nov...
In this episode, Sean and James explore how Europe's fragile balance of power unraveled in 1914 — from rival alliances and Balkan tens...
In this kickoff to our new series on The Great War, James and Sean take a sweeping look at the state of Europe in 1914—just before the...
In this episode, Sean and James rank the top World War II fighter planes used by the Axis powers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in...
In this episode, suggested by Early's Raiders member Mark Porter, James discusses American military chaplains in the Second World War and th...
In this episode, James interviews historian Richard Bell about his book The American Revolution and the Fate of the World . Bell argues that...
Ten Years before Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, a powerful and increasingly autonomous military force had already pushed...
In this topical episode, written by Sean McIver and commissioned by Early's Raiders Major Alisha-Smith Arthur, James tells the story of the...
In this episode, the last of the Vietnam War series, Sean and James discuss the postwar lives and careers of top American and Vietnamese lea...
In this episode, Sean and James discuss the 1989 film Born on the Fourth of July, directed by Oliver Stone and based on the autobiography of...
In this episode, Sean and James reflect on the long-term consequences of the war for the Vietnamese people, the United States, and the world...
In this episode, James interviews author Bruce Jay Wasser about his book 90 : A Conscientious Objector's Journey of Quiet Resistance . In th...
In this episode, Sean and James discuss the 2020 film The Trial of the Chicago Seven, a historical legal drama written and directed by Aaron...
In this episode, Sean and James discuss the complex and multifaceted anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States and around the world. Se...
In this episode, Sean and James discuss the 1987 film The Hanoi Hilton, which portrays the harrowing experiences of American prisoners of wa...
In this episode, Sean and James discuss the horrific human costs of the Vietnam War, including the nature and number of casualties on each s...
In this episode, a companion to the previous one, Sean and James discuss the experience of Vietnamese front-line combat troops in the Vietna...