• 2001
  • 22m
Battlefront

Summary The fiercest battles of WWII come to life as never seen before in this collection of one of the most powerful epics of history. This documentary series takes you behind enemy lines and to the front lines of the tumultuous campaigns of the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific theaters where the soldiers, sailors and airmen fought in the most defining time in the history of the modern world. View more details

  • 2001
  • 22m

Battlefront

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Michael Hanks

All cast & crew

8.2

Details

Genres : War Documentary

Release date : Sep 24, 2001

Countries of origin : United States

Production companies : Tri-Crown Productions

Summary The fiercest battles of WWII come to life as never seen before in this collection of one of the most powerful epics of history. This documentary series takes you behind enemy lines and to the front lines of the tumultuous campaigns of the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific theaters where the soldiers, sailors and airmen fought in the most defining time in the history of the modern world. View more details

Details

Genres : War Documentary

Release date : Sep 24, 2001

Countries of origin : United States

Production companies : Tri-Crown Productions

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 24, 2001
Dunkirk
British and Allied forces are pushed back by an overwhelming German Army. 400,000 Allied troops are trapped in the French town of Dunkirk. After several failed attempts at rescue, the British Navy was able to rescue 330,000 troops.
Episode 2 • Dec 31, 1969
Fall of Poland
German tanks roll into Poland in September 1939.
Episode 3 • Dec 31, 1969
Battle of Norway
Early in the war, the Germans decide they need to guarantee access to the Norwegian port of Narvik to ensure their supplies of Swedish iron ore. The British, however, send destroyers to up-end the German plan.
Episode 4 • Dec 31, 1969
Bombing of England
Hitler has taken France and has his sights set on England. At a heavy toll, the Royal Air Force swings into action to stop Hitler from crossing the Channel.
Episode 5 • Dec 31, 1969
Battle of Tobruk
German field marshal Erwin Rommel scores a major victory at the Libyan seaport of Tobruk.
Episode 6 • Sep 24, 2001
Operation Mercury: Fall of Crete
After British forces withdrew in defeat from Greece to the island of Crete in early 1941, they were soon fighting German invasion armies again. This time, 5,000 of Hitler's elite paratroopers landed to complete their conquest in the Mediterranean.
Episode 7 • Dec 31, 1969
Battle of Malta
In 1941, Mussolini desperately wants to wrest the tiny island of Malta from the British for control of the Mediterranean. When his inadequate air force fails to bomb the Maltese into submission, Hitler's Luftwaffe joins the campaign.
Episode 8 • Dec 31, 1969
Fall of Singapore
Before the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese initiate the Pacific War by firing on the British in Malaya. Their route to the rubber-rich nation takes them into Singapore, the World's most armed fortress.
Episode 9 • Dec 31, 1969
Pearl Harbor
During a two-hour surprise attack on the American Pacific fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor, Japanese navy pilots score a near-complete victory.
Episode 10 • Dec 31, 1969
Fall of the Phillipines
American and Philippine troops and Philippine scouts take on a fast advancing Japanese invasion.
Episode 11 • Dec 31, 1969
Battle of Midway
Only one isolated atoll prevents an enemy invasion of Hawaii. Midway Island is where the Japanese fleet converges on a tiny American base with a massive strafing and bombing attack.
Episode 12 • Dec 31, 1969
Soloman Islands
For the first time since Americans entered the war, Marines face Japanese infantrymen at Guadal Canal. In the jungles, two powerful armies clash in a six month battle that claims nearly 30,000 lives.
Episode 13 • Sep 24, 2001
Battle of Dieppe
The Allies launch an ill-fated attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe, France.
Episode 14 • Sep 24, 2001
Battle of Stalingrad
German forces encounter Russian resistance.
Episode 15 • Sep 24, 2001
El Alamein
Erwin Rommel battles Allied forces in North Africa in 1942.
Episode 16 • Dec 31, 1969
North Africa
In the North African desert in 1942, American fighting forces encounter the dreaded Rommel for the first time to stop the German war machine.
Episode 17 • Dec 31, 1969
The Forgotten Front
The Japanese meet resistance from British forces as they advance through Burma to take India in 1944.
Episode 18 • Sep 24, 2001
Battle of Sicily
Fresh from victory in North Africa, the Allies successfully invade the island of Sicily, staging an eventual Italian withdrawal from the war.
Episode 19 • Sep 24, 2001
Bombing of Ploesti
Erwin Rommel battles Allied forces in North Africa in 1942.
Episode 20 • Dec 31, 1969
Monte Cassino
Allied troops are advancing through Italy and meet a stiff German defensive position in an old monastery Monte Cassino.
Episode 21 • Dec 31, 1969
Gilbert Islands
Bloody fighting erupts on a group of tiny Pacific islands in November 1943.
Episode 22 • Sep 24, 2001
Battle of Anzio
Allied armies encounter German resistance in the Italian fishing town of Anzio.
Episode 23 • Sep 24, 2001
Kwajalein
Examining the battle at the Kwajelein Atoll in the South Pacific during 1944. Included: operations by the Seabees.
Episode 24 • Dec 31, 1969
Battle in Palau
American forces overtake Japanese troops on the islands of Palau on the way to the Philippines.
Episode 25 • Dec 31, 1969
D-Day
D-Day, the 6th of June--one of the most pivotal moments in world history. In a massive armada of thousands of ships, 3,000,000 allied troops land at Three Beaches in Normandy, France.
Episode 26 • Dec 31, 1969
Retaking France
Six weeks after the D-Day invasion of the Beaches of Normandy, the allied forces are pushing the Germans back through the French countryside. Town by town is won back as Panzer divisions retreat back to the Meuse River.
Episode 27 • Dec 31, 1969
Operation Dragoon
Allied Forces continue across France pushing the German troops back into Germany.
Episode 28 • Sep 24, 2001
Liberation of Paris
Both political and military expediency were factors in the return of the French capital to its people.
Episode 29 • Sep 24, 2001
Arnhem
The Allies launch an attack designed to push the Germans back to the Rhine River.
Episode 30 • Sep 24, 2001
Liberation of the Philippines
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's return to the Philippines, and the final push to retake the islands after two years of Japanese occupation.
Episode 31 • Dec 31, 1969
The Last Stronghold
American B-29 high-altitude bomber attacks Japan near the end of World War II.
Episode 32 • Sep 24, 2001
Mount Belvedere
The Battle of the Gothic Line in 1944.
Episode 33 • Dec 31, 1969
Battle of the Bulge
The December 1944 battle pitting American forces against German Panzer divisions in the Ardennes Forest.
Episode 34 • Dec 31, 1969
Mount Hot Rocks
American forces landing on the shores of Iwo Jima encounter Japanese combatants willing to fight to the death.
Episode 35 • Sep 24, 2001
Battle of Remagen
German forces retreat across the Rhine on the Remagen bridge near the close of the war.
Episode 36 • Sep 24, 2001
Battle of Okinawa
Kamikaze pilots guard the island of Okinawa from American forces.
Episode 37 • Sep 24, 2001
Fall of Berlin
In 1945, Soviet and American troops press Hitler's armies from the west and the east, culminating in the fall of Berlin.
Episode 38 • Sep 24, 2001
Commerce Raiders
Heavily armed vessels disguised as ordinary cargo ships patrolled allied waters, sinking supply boats and stealing their content.
Episode 39 • Sep 24, 2001
Bombing of Germany
The development of the B-17 bomber, which allowed American planes to reach inside Germany and bomb its cities.
Episode 40 • Sep 24, 2001
U-boat War
U-boats posed the deadliest threat to Allied convoys traveling the Atlantic.

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