Shootout!

Al-Qaida terrorists and Islamic radicals congregate in Fallujah, Iraq, to resist the U.S. occupation.

The myths surrounding the iconic confrontations between gunslingers of the American frontier are debunked as real life historic shootouts are revisited.

On the small island of Guadalcanal in the southwestern Pacific, in 1942, American troops fought the Japanese in close-quarter shootouts that became a turning point in the war.

From the Solomons to the Philippines, on tiny specks of land in the vast emptiness of the Pacific Ocean, soldiers came face to face with their enemies.

Veterans of the 2003 Gulf War recount their desperate race past guerilla fighters to capture the Iraqi capital, cutting off support for Saddam's troops in the field.

Raid on the Makin Atoll; New Georgia in the Solomon Islands; two dozen Marines face hundreds of enemy soldiers in Peleliu; a single rifleman holds off two companies in the Philippines.

Dramatic and dangerous cases from armed response experts are retold from the point of view of the officers themselves, as well as hostages rescued by SWAT teams.

In March 2003, a battalion of Marines approached the supposedly friendly city of An Nasiriyah only to come under heavy bombardment by enemy insurgents.

Militia battle US Marines in a 1,000 year-old Najaf cemetery, insurgent mortar squads target voters in Fallujah, and Special Forces hunt down Saddam Hussein's sons.