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S1 E10 D-Day And Liberation

War

12+

43m

12 Jan 2026

And so it finally arrived: 6th June 1944, the day that British, US and Canadian troops were sent across the English Channel to begin the job of reclaiming continental Europe and freeing it from German occupation.

Season 1, 12 Episodes

Season 1 (12 Episodes)

WWII: Witness To War - Fall Of France

Fall Of France,

The world had largely ignored the growing threat of Nazism during the late 1930s and now the appeasement of Hitler was about to have terrible consequences.

WWII: Witness To War - Battle Of Britain

Battle Of Britain,

With the fall of France, only Britain stood between Hitler and complete victory in Europe. But German High Command knew that it first had to have mastery of the skies.

WWII: Witness To War - U-Boat Terror

With the invasion of Britain officially postponed, The Germans looked for another way to knock Britain out of the war. As an island race, Britons depended on its merchant navy to provide vital war materials, not to mention food and fuel.

WWII: Witness To War - Pearl Harbor

Up until the end of 1941, the USA stayed resolutely neutral. Not surprisingly, there was little public appetite for joining a war that was taking place many miles away and seemed to have little to do with the world’s greatest superpower.

WWII: Witness To War - Bombing The Reich

Bombing The Reich,

During the early months and years of the war, Britain and her allies were almost powerless to hit back at Germany. They were on the back foot, unable to take the war to where the Germans would feel it most – Germany.

WWII: Witness To War - Road To Burma

The expansion of the Japanese empire had as its main aim the conquest of territories rich in natural resources. And so Japan cast its eyes towards South East Asia.

WWII: Witness To War - Desert War

Meanwhile in North Africa, the Italian dictator Mussolini had his own ideas about building a new Roman Empire in the region. And so he sent thousands of poorly-trained and ill-prepared Italian troops against the British garrison in Egypt.

WWII: Witness To War - Hell In The Pacific

Hell In The Pacific,

This episode remembers some of the thunderous naval battles which took place during the Pacific war. They include the Battle of the Coral Sea, the battle of Midway and the biggest naval engagement of the war – the battle of Leyte Gulf.

WWII: Witness To War - Eastern Front

The decision by Hitler to send his armies east in to Russia was probably the most significant of the war. Now against military convention, he was fighting on two fronts and almost as bad made a bitter enemy of an erstwhile ally.

WWII: Witness To War - D-Day And Liberation

D-Day And Liberation,

And so it finally arrived: 6th June 1944, the day that British, US and Canadian troops were sent across the English Channel to begin the job of reclaiming continental Europe and freeing it from German occupation.

WWII: Witness To War - Fall Of Berlin

Fall Of Berlin,

By early 1945, the end was in sight. After months of hard fighting the Allies were advancing towards the Rhine and to the east the Russians were closing in on Berlin as part of Operation Bagration.

WWII: Witness To War - Final Victory

The conflict in the Pacific provided history with some of the worst reminders of the true meaning of war. Even today the images captured on islands such as Iwo Jima and Okinawa have the power to shock a world by the horrors of more recent events.

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WWII: Witness To War

War

12+

1 Season

43m

Experience World War II through the voices of those who lived it. Veterans and civilians share raw, first-hand memories that bring history’s darkest conflict to life.

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