They’re about sacrifice, friendship and the bleak realities of war. But The Dirty Dozen took a completely different approach.

An action war film series based on E. M. Nathanson's novel of the same name. The original theatrical film was released in 1967, and was followed by three TV movie sequels in the mid-to-late 1980s.

IBM ultimately approved "Project Chess," allowing Bill Lowe to form an independent group of engineers known as "the Dirty Dozen," who were tasked with creating a working prototype over the next 30 ...