• 2010
The Road to D-Day
  • 2010

The Road to D-Day

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Bud Buchanan Muriel Murch Harry Long Bert Hodder

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Genres : History War Documentary

Release date : Jan 3, 2025

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : Peter Williams Television

Details

Genres : History War Documentary

Release date : Jan 3, 2025

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : Peter Williams Television

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Dec 31, 1969
Friendly Invasion
A compelling insight into the assault on D-Day; with survivors describing it as 'out of this world', we take a look at the impact on those that stayed at home.
Episode 2 • Dec 31, 1969
Love and War
D-Day transformed large parts of Britain into an armed camp. Troops came from all over the world. Relationships with the local residents grew and some of them lasted while others didn't.
Episode 3 • Dec 31, 1969
Through the Eyes of a Child
Facing the bombing by the Luftwaffe, children in their thousands were evacuated. Sometimes, whole schools moved to safer areas. This is the story of one of them.
Episode 4 • Dec 31, 1969
The Great Deception
Britain made huge efforts to conceal from the Nazis the precise beaches on which the D-Day troops would land. This is the story of a highly successful deception plan.
Episode 5 • Dec 31, 1969
Great Panjandrums
War kills people. It also produces more sophisticated ways of doing so, and conversely, inventions that will nullify the new sources of death.
Episode 6 • Dec 31, 1969
Practice Run
The disaster of the raid on Dieppe is followed by a rehearsal for D-Day at Slapton Sands, which was interrupted by an onslaught of German E-boats, causing hundreds of deaths.
Episode 7 • Dec 31, 1969
On the Beaches
Film star Richard Todd recalls dropping, as a paratrooper, on Pegasus Bridge, a target that it was vital for the British to capture and hold.

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