MANILA, Philippines - Now you can relive the infamy?on TV. Considered the worst wave of mass murder and destruction in the Pacific during World War II, the Battle of Manila leveled the metropolis and claimed the lives of 100,000 people in a 28-day Japanese killing spree before US troops liberated the Philippines.

We have read this in history books, newspaper articles, Internet forums and heard it from our elders who remain emotional and grief-stricken 63 years later.

Now we can witness moving pictures of the devastation in a first-ever television documentary on the events that led to the end of the Pacific war in the Philippines. History Channel Asia features ?Remembering the Battle of Manila,? a comprehensive documentary that presents interviews with Filipino survivors, American troops and even the Japanese soldiers who carried out the vicious attacks.

Never-before-seen archived video of the devastation will also be shown. These videos, showing bodies of American and Filipino soldiers and civilians on Manila?s streets, present a gripping take on the notorious battle.

First-hand

According to first-hand accounts, the Japanese?faced with defeat against the Americans in the battle to liberate Manila?shot, bayoneted, burned or raped civilians in the rampage from Feb. 3 to Mar. 3, 1945. They also destroyed and razed buildings, schools, houses and other structures.

The show will provide a voice and a face to survivors and even the perpetrators to accurately retell the abomination. In sneak previews on the channel, residents recalled the rampage. ?All we could do was hide. We had nowhere to go,? one woman survivor said.

?We were trapped,? another male survivor said.

A Japanese officer who carried out the massacre also spoke: ?The order was given to fire and we did. Bang! Bang! Bang!?

Indeed, a moving, riveting glimpse on what we need to know more about our history.

?Remembering the Battle of Manila? premiered yesterday, 8 p.m. on the History Channel (Cablelink Channel 44), with reruns on Nov. 10 (1 p.m.), 15 (10 a.m.), 21 (9 p.m.), 22 (3 p.m.) and 24 (7 a.m.).

?The Screening Room?

TV host Myleene Klass discovered the best of Brazilian cinema when she travelled to Rio for the latest edition of ?The Screening Room? on CNN International (www.cnn.com/screeningroom).

Klass visited iconic places like Ipanema, Copacabana and saw why filmmakers are making the place their starting point and ?then shipping things off into the world.?

?We have been collecting elements for our Brazil show since the start of the year?Jose Padilha (director of ?Elite Squad?) at the Berlin Film Festival, Bruno Berretta (?Last Stop 174?) in Toronto and in Cannes, Fernando Meirelles (?City of God,? ?The Constant Gardener? and ?Blindness?) and Walter Salles (?Central Station,? ?The Motorcycle Diaries? and ?Linha de Passe?),? she said.

Klass, who?s part British and part Filipino, is also an actress, singer, model, pianist, radio presenter and former member of the short lived UK pop band Hear?Say.

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Strange food

Internationally renowned chef and food writer Andrew Zimmern returns on a quest to dish out even stranger and weirder food from around the globe in a second season of ?Bizarre Foods.?

Andrew takes viewers behind the scenes to savor the local cuisine?even if that means chewing on eggs with legs, swallowing a beating frog?s heart or polishing off a lamb?s eyeball.

The show airs every Tuesday at 9 p.m. and encores every Wednesday at 2 p.m.

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ER action

Discovery Channel?s new series ?911: The Bronx? takes viewers straight to the emergency room action of the St. Barnabas Hospital as emergency cases are captured on film.

Among the life-threatening cases are a man who landed on his head after falling four stories, a 12-year-old boy victim of a hit-and-run, a newborn with a potentially life-threatening infection, a shopkeeper who was shot in the head at pointblank range, a woman who accidentally drank a bottle of cleaning fluid and a patient who fell 12-meters off the roof of a building.

Episodes air every Friday at 11 p.m., with encores on Saturday at midnight and Sunday at 5 a.m.