Jackie Jackson’s foot caught on a microphone cable. He was going down on live television in front of millions of viewers, in front of Don Cornelius, in front of their father who was watching from the wings with his arms crossed and that look on his face. 2 seconds. That’s how long Michael Jackson had…
The godfather of soul challenged the king of pop to do something impossible. Michael took it personally. What happened next made James Brown bow down on stage. It was February 1983. Backstage at the Beverly Theater in Los Angeles. The Grammys were over. The afterparties were in full swing and two legends found themselves in…
The 12-year-old homeless boy had no shoes, no home, and no future. But he had a voice that shouldn’t have been possible. A voice that could sing one of the most famous songs in the world with the same power and technique as the artist who created it. Michael Jackson was walking past, heard his…
Michael Jackson was answering questions in a press conference when a journalist in the third row stood up and said something that silenced the entire room. Michael looked at him for a long moment. Then he said seven words that nobody in that room ever forgot. It was February of 1993 and the press conference…
73 men, one sniper, 11 hours, and a valley that the Taliban still refuses to enter to this day. What I’m about to tell you is not supposed to exist. The Australian government has never confirmed it. The military archives remain sealed. And the man who pulled the trigger has never spoken a single word…
What happens when one brother becomes the architect of death while the other refuses to let anyone die? Two men, same DNA, same elite unit. But their roles in Afghanistan’s bloodiest valleys couldn’t be more different. One planned raids so surgical that the Taliban called them ghosts. The other worked miracles in the dirt while…
In 2008, deep in the mountains of Uruzgan province, Afghanistan, a combined patrol of Australian SAS operators [music] and American Green Berets drove into a valley called Anakali. They were hunting Taliban. They had done this before, just days earlier in a neighboring valley, and it had gone perfectly. [music] But this time, the Taliban…
In late 2001, a small group of Australian soldiers landed at a dusty airfield outside Kandahar, Afghanistan. They were members of one squadron, Special Air Service Regiment. About 90 operators in total, no fanfare, no press conferences, just a handful of bearded men in tan fatigues, stepping off a transport plane into the most dangerous…
Today, we’re counting down five diesel engines that changed the course of World War II. And then, the world forgot about them. These engines rolled across beaches, built airfields under fire, and helped decide the outcome of the biggest war in history. A couple of them are going to surprise you. Especially the one in…
In 1941, Australian soldiers in the Pacific were dying because they didn’t have enough weapons. Not because of bad tactics. Not because of poor training. Because Britain fighting for its survival in Europe and North Africa simply could not supply enough firearms to arm every soldier in every corner of its empire at the same…
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