World War II - Battles for Europe - Season 1

March 1945: the Allies have reached the River Rhine. Montgomery plans a giant operation to cross the river in the north, but luck hands the Americans a bridge over the Rhine at Remagen.

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.

Cursed Bloodlines - Season 1

It is said that the Winchester family was haunted by the souls of those who were killed by the Winchester rifle. A series of personal misfortunes seemed to confirm the family was struck by a curse.

Secret Nazi Bases - Season 4

After the Allied landing in Normandy, France fell city after city; a small island fortress off of the coast of France became the stage for a harrowing act of Nazi defiance.

Secret Nazi Bases - Season 4

Deep within the forests of East Prussia, a sprawling Nazi complex became the nerve centre of Hitler's war machine; these secure facilities became the site of a daring plot against the Fuhrer.

WWII: Endgame - Season 1

The early years of WWII caused devastation throughout Europe; the 1939 non-aggression pact between the Germans and Russians had promised safety for the Soviet Union, but Hitler was not to be trusted.

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.

Secret Weapons: WWII - Season 1

Espionage and intelligence were crucial during WWII; clever camouflage, the Enigma machine, and concealable weapons were as important as any tank, ship, aircraft or bomb.

World War II: The Price of Empire - Season 1

The Allied leaders meet for their first conference to discuss the coordination of their efforts, a Japanese division is destroyed at sea, and the Red Army begins its advance towards Berlin.

World War II: The Price of Empire - Season 1

The Germans continue their retreat from Russia, but the most significant event at this stage of the war is the second front in Europe with the D-Day landings on June 6th - Operation Overlord.

World War II: The Price of Empire - Season 1

The Allies continue their eastward push from Normandy and close on the German border; in the east, the Soviet Union unleashes Operation Bagration, the greatest offensive of the war.

World War II: The Price of Empire - Season 1

The Allies succeed in crossing the Rhine and fight their way through Germany as the Red Army finally forces Axis troops from Soviet territory and closes on the capital, Berlin.

World War II: The Price of Empire - Season 1

Berlin falls and the war in Europe ends. Okinawa falls with terrible losses on both sides as each prepares for the invasion of the first of the major home islands - but a new weapon is unleashed.

Nazis: Threads of Evil - Season 1

Wilhelm Keitel, Hitler's top military yes-man, signed orders that unleashed war crimes and mass murder across Europe; blindly obedient to the end, he ended up answering to justice at Nuremberg.

Hitler's Most Wanted - Season 1

Retracing the story of Hermann Goering, we learn how a revered fighter pilot of the First World War could emerge as a psychopathic war criminal in World War II.

Auschwitz - One Day

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.

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.

Secret Weapons: WWII - Season 1

Espionage and intelligence were crucial during WWII; clever camouflage, the Enigma machine, and concealable weapons were as important as any tank, ship, aircraft or bomb.