• 2004
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Episode list

Heroes of World War II
The Men Who Invented Radar
Wed, Dec 31, 1969
  • S1.E1
  • The Men Who Invented Radar
The story of the boffins and experimenters who developed the first workable radar system, just in time to help defeat the Nazi attacks in The Battle of Britain.
8 /10
The Man Who Stood Up to Hitler
Thu, Jan 01, 2004
  • S1.E3
  • The Man Who Stood Up to Hitler
The story of Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg and the other German officers who, in the bomb plot of July 1944 tried to kill Adolph Hitler.
8 /10
The Men Who Stopped the Bismarck
Fri, Jan 02, 2004
  • S1.E5
  • The Men Who Stopped the Bismarck
The story of the Nazi heavy cruisers and battleships during World War II and particularly the Bismarck. How she managed to get into the Atlantic and the steps taken to defeat her.
7.4 /10
The Men Who Invented Radar

S1.E1 ∙ The Men Who Invented Radar

Wed, Dec 31, 1969
The story of the boffins and experimenters who developed the first workable radar system, just in time to help defeat the Nazi attacks in The Battle of Britain.
8 /10
The Man Who Designed the Spitfire

S1.E2 ∙ The Man Who Designed the Spitfire

Wed, Dec 31, 1969
The story of R J Mitchell and his team, who developed the Spitfire just in time to defeat the Nazi attacks during the Battle of Britain, despite Mitchell's rapid deterioration due to the cancer that killed him.
6.9 /10
The Man Who Stood Up to Hitler

S1.E3 ∙ The Man Who Stood Up to Hitler

Thu, Jan 01, 2004
The story of Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg and the other German officers who, in the bomb plot of July 1944 tried to kill Adolph Hitler.
8 /10
The Men Who Cracked Enigma

S1.E4 ∙ The Men Who Cracked Enigma

Thu, Jan 01, 2004
The story of the men that cracked the Nazi's Enigma code. From the Polish mathematicians who made the first breakthroughs to the establishment at Bletchley Park and the work of Alan Turing and many others.
7.3 /10
The Men Who Stopped the Bismarck

S1.E5 ∙ The Men Who Stopped the Bismarck

Fri, Jan 02, 2004
The story of the Nazi heavy cruisers and battleships during World War II and particularly the Bismarck. How she managed to get into the Atlantic and the steps taken to defeat her.
7.4 /10
The Man Who Saved Britain's Cities

S1.E6 ∙ The Man Who Saved Britain's Cities

Fri, Jan 02, 2004
The story of the blitz on Britain and how the Nazi bombers were guided to their targets by electronic beams. Then how this was defeated in The Battle of the Beams by Dr R V Jones and the team from British Air Intelligence.
6.7 /10
The Man Who Hoodwinked Hitler

S1.E7 ∙ The Man Who Hoodwinked Hitler

Sat, Jan 03, 2004
The story of Ewen Montagu and Operation Mincemeat, where the Nazis were fooled into thinking that the initial landings on the European mainland would be through Greece rather than Sicily and Italy.
6.9 /10
The Men Who Liberated Belsen

S1.E8 ∙ The Men Who Liberated Belsen

Sat, Jan 03, 2004
The story of the liberation of Belsen concentration camp by the British army. What they found there, how they were determined to let the world know and how they treated the survivors.
0 /10
The Men Behind D-Day

S1.E10 ∙ The Men Behind D-Day

Sun, Jan 04, 2004
The story of the planning, support and deception necessary to mount the largest amphibious assault that the world had ever seen.
7.2 /10
Midget Submarines

S1.E12 ∙ Midget Submarines

Mon, Jan 05, 2004
From attacks on Pearl Harbor and Sydney Harbour, to the British Mediterranean Fleet and the Tirpitz, midget submarines played their part in some of the most gripping stories of the war. This programme recalls the heroic encounters of the men who piloted these midget craft towards their giant quarries.
0 /10
Aircraft Carriers

S1.E14 ∙ Aircraft Carriers

Fri, Jan 16, 2004
Giant aircraft carriers dominated the Pacific War between Japan and the USA. Pearl Harbor was launched to destroy US carriers but failed, while the battle of Midway - the turning point in the Pacific War - was won by US carriers delivering tremendous air strikes against Japanese battleships. This programme shows them in dramatic action.
0 /10
Fighter-Bombers

S1.E15 ∙ Fighter-Bombers

Tue, Jan 06, 2004
By 1944, the Allied fronts in both western and eastern Europe had become faster moving and a new form of aircraft was needed to deliver swift, powerful attacks against German lines. This programme looks at the key fighter-bombers on all sides, including the American Thunderbolt, the Russian Sturmovik, and the British Hurricane developed to carry bombs and rockets for ground attack purposes.
0 /10
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Occupied City

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The Last Days

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City of Ghosts

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Cries from Syria

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Europa: The Last Battle

Europa: The Last Battle

World War II revisionist film that claims Jews deliberately caused both World Wars--and that Hitler was only trying to save Germany from the Jews--as part of a plot to found the nation of Israel.

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