December 19th, 1944. German Panther crews outside the village of Noval were reporting something impossible. American tanks were everywhere. They would appear…
The station wagon hit the curve wrong and flipped twice before sliding to a stop in the dirt. And the first three crew…
August 7th, 1944, 3 kilometers south of Morta, France, the pre-dawn darkness shattered with an explosion that seemed to come from hell itself.…
December 17th, 1944. 0600 hours. Meldy Crossroads, Belgium. The temperature had dropped to 18° Fahrenheit when Ober Lieutenant Verner Poetski heard a sound…
December 18th, 1944, 0647 hours. Sergeant Jim Morrison crouches in a frozen Belgian foxhole near Bastonia, watching his breath turn to vapor in…
The cameras were rolling. John Wayne was repeating a take. The director had called action. But then a voice rang out. Duke, I…
The set went silent. John Wayne hung up the telephone and turned to the producers. What he said next was both a request…
John Wayne walked toward the set gate to begin filming. His horse blocked the path. Duke’s face collapsed. No one spoke. No one…
A man called John Wayne. Sir. Wayne stopped the scene, walked toward him, and said nothing, but everyone understood. Monument Valley, 1972. Summer…
August 1976. John Wayne is filming his final movie. He’s dying of cancer. [music] Nobody on set knows how bad it is. The…