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The Pacific in Flames

Documentary

TV-14

52

Dec 31, 2009

The Central Pacific area, with its huge distance ranges, rekindle the war between the Japanese and the Americans.

Season 1, 21 episodes

season 1 (21 episodes)

Hitler: The Wolf,

A survey of Hitler's early years. Nazism. His appointment as Chancellor and the men in his Government.

The Onset: The German-Soviet Expansion,

The Munich Agreement. German invasion of Poland. Russian invasion of Poland and Finland (the Winter War).

The Fuhrer's Revenge,

German invasion of Denmark and Norway. The drive on Western Europe.

Battle of Britain,

Operation Sea Lion. The struggle for Great Britain's skies.

The Battle of the Atlantic,

German submarine and surface sea warfare against the Allied Fleet.

The Desert Fox,

North-African battles between the Axis and the Allied armies. Enters Rommel and his Afrika Korps. Greece. Crete and Malta.

The Invasion of the Soviet Union,

German troops invade the Soviet Union and move rapidly forward on all fronts. Their main objectives are Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad.

Mr. President, What about the Japanese?,

Assault on Pearl Harbor. Singapore. The Philippines. Doolittle and the B-25s.

Midway: Change of Course,

After the naval battle in Midway the U.S.A. regain the leading drive of the war in the Pacific.

The struggle for the city of Stalingrad went into history as the most sanguinary battle of all times and it meant the beginning of the end for the Third Reich's armies.

The Desert Rats,

Montgomery. Counter-offensive in North Africa. Operation Torch.

The Decline of Fascism,

Invasion of Sicily. Mussolini's downfall. Ploesti. Invasion of the Italian Peninsula.

The Slow Italian Campaign,

Cassino. Anzio. Liberation of Rome. The Gothic Line. Liberation of Italy.

The Road to Tokyo,

The battles for Guadalcanal, Munda, Bouganville and the South-Pacific area launch the thrust to the Japanese Empire's capital city.

The Pacific in Flames,

The Central Pacific area, with its huge distance ranges, rekindle the war between the Japanese and the Americans.

Allied invasion of Normandy. Liberation of Paris.

The Battle of Kursk,

The greatest armoured cars' battle in history easied the way for the Soviet troops on they road to Berlin.

The Battle for Germany,

Eastern and Western offensives of the Allied and Soviet armies in their way to Berlin. Operation Market Garden.

The Agony of the Third Reich,

The Battle of the Ardennes (the Battle of the Bulge). Conquest of Berlin. Hitler's death. Surrender and end of the war in Europe.

Leyte, Imperial Destiny,

Several naval clashes in the Gulf of Leyte led to the liberation of the Philippines. Along with the British victory in Burma, they opened the way to Tokyo.

The Peace of the Atomic Bomb,

Iwojima. Okinawa. Atomic bombs and the surrender of the Japanese army bring to a close the greatest disaster so far known to mankind -- World War II.

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The Finest Hours Of WWII

Documentary

TV-14

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“The Finest Hours of the Second World War” takes viewers to the front lines of the European, the Pacific and the African theatres of the deadliest conflict in human history.

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