Coast Guard Rescue on Alaska's High Seas | Black Line | 1
On January 30, 1998, five fishermen finally hit the jackpot in a fishing bank known as Fairweather Ground off the southeastern coast of Alaska. They were aboard a wooden ship called the La Conte, whic...
26 Touko 47min
In Their Own Words: Slipped Off a Glacier | 1
In July of 2025, climate reporter Alec Luhn was in his element hiking around a glacier in Norway’s Folgefonna National Park. But when Alec slipped off a boulder and broke his leg, he found himself una...
19 Touko 48min
WWII Nurses Turned Prisoners of War | The "Battling Belles" of Bataan | 6
The capture of American nurses in the Philippines is often described as an “untold story” of WWII; Dr. Elizabeth Norman set out to change that. She conducted extensive interviews with 20 of the 77 nur...
12 Touko 36min
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 starvation. They don’t know how much longer they can hold on. Un...
5 Touko 47min
WW 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 rations have been cut to under 1,000 calories per day. Prisoners a...
28 Huhti 45min
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 Anchors, agree to transfer to a new camp. It’s called Los Baño...
21 Huhti 50min
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 the best of it, continuing to tend to their patients, confid...
14 Huhti 42min
