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Watch National Geographic: Inside Shock and Awe (2005) Online

  • RUNTIME: 1h 10m

This documentary takes you into the besieged city of Baghdad with the soldiers assigned to Shock and Awe, the mission that launched Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003. Using weapons such as Tomahawk cruise missiles, B-2 stealth bombers, F-117 fighters and precision-guided bombs, Americans had hoped to surprise the reigning government so that they would buckle under the onslaught quickly. But the war didn't quite go as planned.