World War TV

E6 Fritz Todt was Hitler’s leading engineer and his Minister of Armaments. He was the man the Führer tasked with the most demanding engineering projects.

E1 The Avro Lancaster is the legendary British heavy bomber that carved its place in history with Bomber Command during World War 2. That conflict saw over seven thousand of these iconic aircraft come off the production line.

E2 Unusually, we look at the later, clipped wing version flown by Czech refugee pilots in the UK during WW2. We get close-up with a beautifully restored example, fly her and unearth long unseen test and operational footage.

E1 Nazi Germany boasted that its locomotives were faster and more innovative. This programme examines that claim by looking at these ‘flying trains’.

E2 Veterans and historians of the Thai-Burma railway tell the story of its construction. Built to supply Japan’s invasion of India, it cost thousands of lives – both POWs and Asian slave labourers.

E1 Spring 1944: The Allies aim to end Hitler's domination of Western Europe. In the south of England, troops are being trained in the greatest secrecy for a gigantic amphibious operation.

E2 June 6, 1944: Thanks to a lull in the weather, the Allied armada launches an assault on the Normandy coast. On the five landing beaches, barges unload soldiers in successive waves.

E3 On September 15th, 1942, 12 commandos reached Northern Norway. Their mission: to sabotage a hydroelectric plant crucial to the German war industry. To avoid detection, they decided to cross a huge high-altitude glacier.

E4 In the midst of the reconquest of Italy, the Allies came up against the Winter Line—an impregnable line of defence built on the crests of a mountain range. They decided to call in a very special commando unit, the First Special Service Force.