Hardcore Heroes

Fire and water are the most deadly of nature's vital elements, especially when they rage out of control. Hardcore Heroes Jack Pritchard, a FDNY fire-fighting legend, and John Keller, a former recon Marine, come face to face with these ferocious elements.

Does becoming the first man to jump 19 miles back to earth from space or strapping yourself into a rocket sled traveling over 600 miles per hour before coming to a violent stop, sound hardcore to you? It's just another day at the office for these heroes.

There are fair fights, unfair fights, and fights where the odds are so stacked against you that you should be obliterated. For two battlefield legends, Drew Dix and Viktor Leonov retreating from a superior army never occurs to them.

Sometimes heroes are hunters, sometimes they are hunted. Hardcore hero, George Rowe goes undercover for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. And after WWII, brothers Joe and Radek Masin elude the biggest manhunt in Communist Soviet Union history.

In the death-defying tales of valour, there are the heroes who work with others to save lives. Then there are the hardcore heroes who operate as lone masterminds - and get the job done. Carlos Hathcock and Max Hardberger know how to get the job done.

Some of the greatest hardcore heroes' second nature is to fly fearlessly into battle. When George Welch and Kenneth Taylor wake up to the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbour, they take to the skies to fight. And Chuck Yeager becomes an ace fighter pilot.