World War II - Battles for Europe - Season 1

June 1944 - American, British and Canadian troops stormed the Normandy beaches along a 50-mile stretch. We look at the amphibious tanks and the heavy kit that weighed them down as they waded ashore.

World War II - Battles for Europe - Season 1

June 1944: the British and Canadians are still short of the objective they planned to capture on D-Day: the city of Caen. This episode tells the story of the bloody fighting for the city.

World War II - Battles for Europe - Season 1

July 1944: American forces plan a major offensive named Operation Cobra. They would attack near St Lo, achieve a breakthrough, then unleash General Patton and the US Third Army to exploit the opening.

World War II - Battles for Europe - Season 1

September 1944: Montgomery proposes a bold plan to cross the Rhine and encircle Germany's industrial heartland. If successful, his plan could end the war by Christmas.

World War II - Battles for Europe - Season 1

October 1944: the Allies face a major supply crisis - vital fuel and ammunition still has to be landed at the D-Day beaches. When the port of Antwerp is liberated, it seems the crisis might be over.

Top Ten Warfare - Season 1

Air supremacy has been key to winning a war since the dawn of aerial warfare; from the Sopwith Camel biplane to the F22 Raptor, we identify and rank the most influential aircrafts in history.

Top Ten Warfare - Season 1

20th-century battles have changed the course of history; the Battle of the Somme saw over 60,000 casualties on the first day alone and D-Day marked the beginning of Hitler's ultimate defeat.

Secrets of the Nazi War Machine - Season 1

At the outbreak of World War II, the Nazis had the finest airforce in the entire world; James Holland learns how internecine squabbles led the Nazi High Command on the catastrophic road to defeat.

Secret Nazi Bases - Season 4

With Nazi Germany's rise to power, an abandoned canal was resurrected; the true purpose of this project came into question with rumours it harboured a secret that could turn the tide of the war.

The Tank: Ultimate Weapon of World War II - Season 1

What is a tank? From the early concepts to the first tank prototype, we examine how the battlefields of WWI set the scene for the mechanised warfare of WWII.

WWII: Frontlines - Season 1

June 1942: the most decisive naval-air battle in the Pacific started as a Japanese trap and ended as an American ambush, a totally unpredictable conflict made up of luck, code-breaking, and gambles.

WWII: Frontlines - Season 1

January-May 1944: atop the hill in Monte Cassino lies an abbey whose commander has forbidden military use of; the abbey is reduced to rubble despite this and the fight claims over 200,000 deaths.

WWII: Frontlines - Season 1

January 1944: two divisions land at the Italian port of Anzio in one of the easiest Allied assaults of the war, but they fail to exploit their advantage, giving the German defenders time to reinforce.

WWII: Frontlines - Season 1

June 1944: a stretch of beach overlooked by fortified cliffs created a devastating baptism of fire. Failed plans, missed opportunities, and courage make this frontline a major turning point in WWII.

WWII: Frontlines - Season 1

June-July 1944: three weeks after D-Day, the Allied advance has stalled; the killing fields around Hill 112 become the start of a brutal war of attrition that the Nazis cannot afford to wage.

Auschwitz - One Day

Hitler's Entourage - Season 1

Joseph Goebbels is a spokesman, seducer and propagandist driven by hatred, ambition, and the desire to be immortal.

The Masters of the Reich - Season 1

Hitler used confrontations between economic crises and street violence to provoke the need for more authoritarian power; the 'ordinary man with political genius' became the 'Chancellor of Peace'.

The Tank: Ultimate Weapon of World War II - Season 1

What is a tank? From the early concepts to the first tank prototype, we examine how the battlefields of WWI set the scene for the mechanised warfare of WWII.

Secret Nazi Bases - Season 4

With Nazi Germany's rise to power, an abandoned canal was resurrected; the true purpose of this project came into question with rumours it harboured a secret that could turn the tide of the war.

Bomber: Terror of WWII - Season 1

The first bombs were dropped from balloons; in WWI, Zeppelins and German Gotha bombers made the first aerial attacks, but it was between the wars that the strategic use of aerial bombing was expanded.