America: Facts vs. Fiction (2013)
History as we generally know it is full of holes or half-truths, and a mother lode of juicy details have been lost, distorted, covered up or simply ignored along the way. Former Naval officer and actor Jamie Kaler is on a mission to set the record straight on the most familiar and beloved stories from our nation's and military's past, filling in the blanks, debunking the occasional myth, and exploring why we sometimes get our own history, well, slightly wrong
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Episode 1 - Presidential Special
Release Date: 2016-04-15 -
Episode 2 - Epic Interventions
Release Date: 2016-04-16 -
Episode 3 - Discovering America
Release Date: 2016-04-23 -
Episode 4 - The Great Escape
Release Date: 2016-04-30The "facts" of the Battle of the Alamo and the Battle of Little Big Horn vs. the "fiction".
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Episode 5 - Tales of Sea and Sky
Release Date: 2016-05-07 -
Episode 6 - Engineering America
Release Date: 2016-05-14 -
Episode 7 - Saluting the Truth
Release Date: 2016-05-21Profiles of U.S. generals, including George Patton and Ulysses S. Grant. Also: a look back at the Roaring '20s and the lawlessness of the 1930s.
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Episode 8 - Striking It Rich
Release Date: 2016-05-28 -
Episode 9 - Bonus Round: Defending the Truth
Release Date: 2016-06-04True tales of women at war, including those that worked at manufacturing jobs, as WASPS, as computers, code breakers and spies and the 500 who died as a result of enemy action. Fact and fiction in historical photographs.