Against the Odds

This is a fantastic series by AHC to give the viewers a first hand look at the footage of these amazing feats of our US troops throughout histories most fierce battles. AAO has first hand accounts of the brave men and women who lived these horrific wars and lived to tell about them. Each episode brings in depth footage that is raw and uncut. Each episode is of a different battle going back to WW2 all the way to Iraqi freedom. This series is one of the best in showing the courageous and harrowing details of these brutal wars in which America was involved in. Must see for big military history fans because it gives the facts and lays it out to you the viewer to see first hand and draw your own views on what it is to be an American soldier in combat situations.

However much you must appreciatie individual acts of bravery, this documentary doesn't have the facts in order. For some reason, the commentary had chosen to use dramatic language, over exeggerating all the facts and thus falsifying history. For example, it says that Germans were getting close to Antwerp during the battle of the bulge. They did not. It talks about killing fields when it means battleground. It says first France was attacked in may 1940, then Belgium, then the Netherlands. The actual order is the other way around. Very sensational all, but wrong. And this exeggaration diminishes the acts of bravery - as if you have to exeggerate, to make those men and women heroes.

The thing is also, when it gets the verifiable fact wrong, what then is true of the acts portayed? The documentary has chosen sensantional and false commentary over true hommage and has the danger in it of becoming disrespectful.