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    Japan Surrenders

Documentary
26 
Dec 31, 2021
Tokyo Bay, Japan. September 2, 1945. On board the USS Missouri, an American battleship. Several weeks ago, American atom bombs devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan has capitulated.

Full Episodes

Season 1, 10 episodes

Season 1
   
Atomic Test at the Bikini,
No event in the history of cinema had ever been so thoroughly covered.
26m Dec 31, 2021
   
Japan Surrenders,
Tokyo Bay, Japan. September 2, 1945. On board the USS Missouri, an American battleship. Several weeks ago, American atom bombs devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan has capitulated.
26m Dec 31, 2021
   
Concentration Camps Liberated in Germany,
In April 1945, just weeks before the war's end, Allied troops advancing on the Western Front uncovered and liberated numerous POW, labor, and concentration camps.
26m Dec 31, 2021
   
Secret Meetings,
February 1945, Southern Ukraine. As war rages in Europe, British Prime Minister Churchill and U.S. President Roosevelt secretly meet Soviet leader Stalin in Crimea.
26m Dec 31, 2021
   
French Resistance Filmed and Trapped,
In 1944, cameraman Felix Forestier was secretly sent to film the French Resistance in Vercors. His unique footage was lost and forgotten until 2013. How did it disappear for so long?
26m Dec 31, 2021
   
Eva Braun Films Hitler,
On July 6, 1940, in Berlin, crowds cheer Chancellor Adolf Hitler as he arrives in a convertible. Eva Braun captures the only color footage of this moment at the Chancellery.
26m Dec 31, 2021
   
Pearl Harbor in a Blaze,
On Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, Japan declares war on the United States by attacking Pearl Harbor and other American military bases in Hawaii. Why did Japan attack American naval bases in Hawaii?
26m Dec 31, 2021
   
The Images of D-Day,
On June 6, 1944, the Normandy Landings, officially called Operation Overlord, began.
26m Dec 31, 2021
   
Chamberlain Seeks Peace with Hitler,
Six months after annexing Austria, Hitler sets his sights on Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, home to millions of ethnic Germans. He threatens force to get it.
26m Dec 31, 2021
   
The Long Trial of Tokyo,
Tokyo, 1946. Under American occupation, 28 top Japanese officials are tried for war crimes by an international tribunal, modeled on Nuremberg.
26m Dec 31, 2021
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