Series
WWII Frontlines
DocumentaryWar & Politics
This series takes viewers deep into the heart of battle, to reveal the critical turning points in some of WWII's most decisive confrontations.
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Seasons & episodes
- 1Midway5 Feb 2021 · 45mMidway became the location for the most decisive naval battle in the Pacific War. The Japanese should have triumphed, yet the Americans turned the Japanese trap into a bold ambush.
2Monte Cassino5 Feb 2021 · 45mIn January 1944 thousands of Allied troops converge on Monte Cassino. Over the next four months the Monastery is reduced to rubble and the fight claims over 200,000 lives.- 3Anzio5 Feb 2021 · 45mOn January 22nd 1944, two divisions land at the Italian port of Anzio in one of the easiest Allied amphibious assaults of the war.
- 4Omaha5 Feb 2021 · 45mOmaha beach - a nightmare for advancing American troops: open ground, sustained fire, heavy casualties and no retreat. But the whole fate of D-Day hinged on Omaha succeeding.
- 5Hill 11212 Feb 2021 · 45mThree weeks after D-Day, the Allied advance has stalled. The killing fields around Hill 112 become a graveyard for the British soldiers that try to take it.
- 6Bastogne12 Feb 2021 · 45m20/12/1944; the Germans attacked the Allies in the Ardennes. The US 101st Airborne rushed to Bastogne and halted the Nazi advance long enough for Patton's 3rd Army to arrive.
- 7Iwo Jima12 Feb 2021 · 45mIwo Jima was where a quarter of all the US Marines who died in World War II were killed. The Leathernecks had to re-think their tactics, as one in three became a casualty.
- 8Berlin12 Feb 2021 · 45mApril 1945, Berlin - the last savage chapter in the Battle for Europe. Stalin's generals compete to avenge the Nazis assault in the East and raise the Red Flag over the Reichstag.
Details
- First aired
- 5 Feb 2021
- Last aired
- 12 Feb 2021
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- English
- Network
- History
- Episodes
- 8
