World War II in Colour
World War II in Colour
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S1 E12: Victory in Europe
Original Air Date: Jan 28, 2011
Allied forces converge on Germany, uncovering the horrors of Belsen and Buchenwald, before pushing towards Berlin, where Adolf Hitler is clinging to power in his last desperate days.
Jun 20
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5:04AM
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S1 E12: Victory in Europe
Original Air Date: Jan 28, 2011
Allied forces converge on Germany, uncovering the horrors of Belsen and Buchenwald, before pushing towards Berlin, where Adolf Hitler is clinging to power in his last desperate days.
Jun 20
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5:04AM
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1 Hr 1 Min
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TV-PG
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Available with Freestream
S1 E11: The Island War
Original Air Date: Jan 21, 2011
The war in the Pacific against Japan was a savage hand-to-hand, island-to-island struggle, fought by new specialist fighting units like the valiant Chindits.
Jun 20
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4:04AM
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1 Hr
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TV-PG
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Available with Freestream
S1 E10: Closing the Ring
Original Air Date: Jan 14, 2011
Concentrates on Hitler's attempts to shift the balance of power back in his favour.
Jun 20
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3:03AM
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1 Hr 1 Min
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TV-PG
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Available with Freestream
S1 E9: Overlord
Original Air Date: Jan 7, 2011
By early 1944, Hitler had long been expecting an Allied attack on north-western France, but his problem was knowing when and where it would come. This episode has a look at the Allied operations Bodyguard and Overlord.
Jun 20
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2:03AM
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1 Hr
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TV-PG
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Available with Freestream
S1 E8: The Soviet Steamroller
Original Air Date: Dec 31, 2010
After Hitler's gamble in the East fails, the Soviet Union starts to slowly push back and grow.
Jun 19
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8:05PM
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1 Hr
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TV-PG
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Available with Freestream
S1 E7: Turning the Tide
Original Air Date: Dec 24, 2010
With their armies fully engaged on the battlegrounds, the Allied and Axis powers focused their efforts to develop new weapons and new strategies to deliver a knockout blow to the enemy and bring about a quick end to the conflict.
Jun 19
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7:05PM
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1 Hr
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TV-PG
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Available with Freestream
S1 E6: Mediterranean and North Africa
Original Air Date: Dec 17, 2010
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini dreamed of recreating the Roman Empire and making the Mediterranean the centre of a new vast colonial empire, including British-controlled Egypt and Sudan to the south.
Jun 19
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6:04PM
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1 Hr 1 Min
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TV-PG
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Available with Freestream
S1 E5: Red Sun Rampant
Original Air Date: Dec 10, 2010
The attack on Pearl Harbour brought the country nicknamed the 'sleeping giant', aka America, into the war, and saw the emergence of the aircraft carrier as the pre-eminent weapon of the seas.
Jun 19
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5:05AM
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1 Hr
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TV-PG
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Available with Freestream
S1 E4: Hitler Strikes East
Original Air Date: Dec 3, 2010
Explores Hitler's assault on the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941.
Jun 19
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4:05AM
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1 Hr
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TV-PG
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Available with Freestream
S1 E3: Britain at Bay
Original Air Date: Nov 26, 2010
After the retreat from Dunkirk, Churchill rallied Britain in its darkest hour. Hitler was only just across the channel, but he reckoned without our supreme strategist, the might of the navy and the manoeuvrability of the air force.
Jun 18
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8:31PM
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1 Hr
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TV-PG
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Available with Freestream
S1 E2: Lightning War
Original Air Date: Nov 19, 2010
Germany took just four weeks to conquer Poland, using a new form of warfare, Blitzkrieg. Six armoured tank units known as Panzer divisions, supported by the Luftwaffe, quickly broke through Polish defences.
Jun 18
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7:32PM
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59 Min
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TV-PG
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S1 E1: The Gathering Storm
Original Air Date: Nov 12, 2010
In the run-up to September 1939, political and economic chaos in the aftermath of World War I allowed Hitler in Germany, Mussolini in Italy and ultranationalists in imperial Japan to seize absolute power.
Jun 18
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6:32PM
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1 Hr
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TV-PG
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Available with Freestream