The Falklands War - The Untold Story (Full Documentary) | Timeline

This film really shows the "folly of war" - when fought with universal principles the men fighting it are most often decent, honourable, intelligent, courageous, even compassionate people. The politicians planning it and making it happen are cynical, cunning and mostly cowardly. An example of this is the sinking of General Belgrano (with the lost of 323 lives), which was outside the British-declared total exclusion zone of 370 km (200 nautical miles) radius from the islands. The British Cabinet, and in particular Margaret Thatcher agreed to a request from Admiral Terence Lewin, the Chief of the Defence Staff, to alter without notice the rules of engagement that had already been delivered to the Argentine government. War itself is vicious and terrifying and without victors.