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Apocalypse: The Second World War

Rating:3.3 of 5Total number of episodes:6
Last broadcast:19/01/2020 at 07:30
2020
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Season 1 Episode 6 - Inferno

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Bringing together rare and forgotten footage, this series provides a ground-breaking portrait of World War Two. This episode examines the dramatic story of the D-Day landings and of the liberation of Paris. In the east, the Soviets liberate Auschwitz and fight their way to the heart of Berlin. Germany finally surrenders, b...
51:52

Season 1 Episode 5 - The Noose

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Bringing together rare and forgotten footage, this series provides a ground-breaking portrait of World War Two. This episode looks at the turning of the war against Germany, with Allied victory at El Alamein and Russian triumph at Stalingrad. Inside Hitler's Germany the SS gain more power, and in southern Europe the Allies...
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51:57

Season 1 Episode 4 - The World Ablaze

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Exploring the story of the sudden Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the early days of the war in the Pacific. In Europe, the program looks at the bombing offensive against Germany and at the appalling crime of the Holocaust.
52:39

Season 1 Episode 3 - Shock

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Bringing together rare and forgotten footage, this six-part series provides a ground-breaking portrait of World War Two. This episode looks at Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, Rommel's war against the British in North Africa, and the horrors of the murder of Russian Jews - sometimes known as the 'Holocaust by Bullets...
52:26

Season 1 Episode 2 - Crushing Defeat

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Bringing together rare and forgotten footage, this series provides a ground-breaking portrait of World War Two that depicts not only its complexity, but the perspectives of both its victims and its victors. Tonight, the story of Hitler's lightning invasion of France and its rapid collapse, the evacuation from Dunkirk, and ...
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Season 1 Episode 1 - Aggression

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Bringing together rare and forgotten footage, this six-part series provides a ground-breaking portrait of World War Two that depicts not only its complexity, but the perspectives of both its victims and its victors. The first episode looks at the rise of Nazism from 1933 and the invasion of Poland in 1939.
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