2020

S3.E1 ∙ No Better Place to Die

Thu, Jul 01, 2021

US Paratroopers dropped into France before the D-Day landings and battled Nazi defenders for a key bridge behind enemy lines.

7.1 /10

S3.E2 ∙ Hell in Hoven

Thu, Jul 01, 2021

Five months after D-Day, the war finally reaches German soil as British soldiers fight in the shadow of Hitler's infamous Siegfried Line.

6.4 /10

In April 1945, 2nd Lt. Vernon J. Baker and a platoon of American Buffalo Soldiers fight three miles into enemy territory to close in on a Nazi occupied castle in Italy, avoiding minefields, destroying observation posts and capturing machine gun nests. But to make a final assault, they must wait for reinforcements. It will take more than fifty years for the valor of these African American soldiers to be fully acknowledged.

5.8 /10

S3.E4 ∙ Falaise Trap

Thu, Jul 01, 2021

With thousands of German soldiers trapped in the Falaise Pocket, a small Canadian tank squadron tries to close off the escape route.

7 /10

S3.E5 ∙ Frozen Offensive

Thu, Jul 01, 2021

A US Parachute Infantry Regiment protects a critical bridge from a Nazi battle group during the opening days of the Battle of the Bulge.

6.3 /10

S3.E6 ∙ Savage Spring

Thu, Jul 01, 2021

After coming ashore with the French-Canadian Regiment de la Chaudiere on D-Day, a sniper loses the sight in one eye during the battle for Caen but refuses to be sent home and rejoins his regiment. In April 1944, as the Chaudieres Leo Major volunteers to try and make contact with the Dutch resistance in the city of Zwolle, and manages to liberate the city without the loss of civilian life.

6.1 /10