MultiChoice will be adding a pop-up channel from A+E Networks looking back at the World Wars for two week during November.
The 100 Years of War will run for two weeks from 29 October until 11 November on DStv channel 199 as a History spin-off channel to commemorate the centenary of the Armistice when the guns on the western front finally fell silent and signaled an end to "the war to end all wars" on the 11th hour of the 11th day of November 1918.
The 100 Years of War channel will look at the impact and legacy of war worldwide through the 20th century and beyond and how conflict and war shaped nations, international relations and the world today.
Besides shows about the two World Wars, the 100 Years of War channel will also broadcast feature documentaries about the Angolan Civil War, the Gulf War and the Boer War. The channel will show 6 hours of fresh content daily.
The channel will look at how the collapse of the old European powers in the first half of the 20th century gave rise to the era of super power conflict and arms race in the second half, and how this led to battles in so-called "spheres of influence" from the war in Vietnam as well as wars in Africa and the Middle East, to the end of Apartheid in South Africa and Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe.
The series contains a mix of dramatic re-enactments, archive footage as well as interviews with political figures like the late American senator John McCain and the former US secretary of state, Colin Powell
South Africa - The Land of Hope, is a three-part series that examines a time span from 1652 to 2010. The legacy of apartheid is examined.
Honor Deferred looks at the stories of seven black Congressional Medal of Honor winners who were among the million black Americans who served within the US army's segregated ranks.
"We want to give our customers access to a wide range of entertainment across different genres. Documentaries such as the ones featured on this pop-up channel, tell the stories of where we come from and help us to make sense of our world," says Yolisa Phahle, CEO for general entertainment at MultiChoice.
"The 11th of November marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the first World War. Our channel is a fitting homage to commemorate this," says Yusuf Nabee, A_E Networks Africa general manager.
"100 Years of War will run for two weeks with more than 80 hours of exclusive war content, including untold short stories related by veterans, victims and survivors of these wars."
Editor: MultiChoice and A+E Networks creates unintentional humor, making it sound as if John McCain and Colin Powell fought in the First World War.
"Through a mix of dramatic re-enactment, archive, and interviews with political figures such as the late US Senator John McCain and ex-US Secretary of State Colin Powell, the series chronicles how their experiences as younger men in the First World War shaped them into the war leaders they became," they say in the press release announcing the channel.
