American Heroes Channel offers a rare glimpse into events and battles that shaped our world.

AMERICAN HEROES

From the American Sherman to the M1 Abrams and the Soviet T34, these expert interviews and archive footage identify and rank the most iconic and influential tanks.

Top Tens of Warfare

Tanks

From the SAS to Hitler's army of WW2, expert interviews and archive footage identify and rank the most influential iconic fighting forces to be caught on camera.

Fighting Forces

Georgy Zhukov, George Patton and Dwight D Eisenhower are some of the greatest 20th century commanders, who understood warfare at both the tactical and strategic level.

Commanders

From the Great Phenol Plot of WWI, to the D-Day deception plan Operation Fortitude, we reveal some of the greatest secrets of warfare of the last century.

Secrets

With access to incredible interviews with world-leading historians as well as historical archive, we take a look at the most significant war leaders that have ever been recorded on camera.

Leaders

Warfare's most iconic weapons are identified and ranked, from the torpedo and the rocket-propelled grenade launcher, to the atomic bomb and poison gas.

Weapons

From the German U-Boat and the Nimitz Aircraft Carriers to D-Day's Landing Craft, discover some of the most iconic ships and submarines of the 20th century.

Vessels

Warfare has driven world-changing technological innovations, including Penicillin, pioneering plastic surgery and the development of the internet. Find out what has become the most influential.

Inventions

We're counting down the fierce 20th century battles of warfare that changed history. From the Somme and the Normandy landings, to the first Gulf War.

Battles

Rarely-seen archive footage and expert interviews rank and identify the most influential aircraft in history, from the P-51 Mustang to the Harrier Jump Jet.

Aircraft

Rarely-seen footage and expert interviews are used in this documentary series.

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