Apparently the History channel has just completely given up on trying to deliver anything educational, as they’re producing a special called The Great Martian War, which details the, uh, history of a completely fictitious war. Why isn’t this on the Syfy channel again? Anyway, for all that I’m disdainful of this kind of thing playing on the History channel, I love this sequence of archive recreations from PLAZMA, which combines elements of real archive footage with awesome special effects. Terrific work.