Episodes

• Japan's Warrrior Code

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  Japan's Warrior Code: As a deadly battle threatens to bring the US's B-29 bomber in reach of Japan, the Japanese bank on a weapon of their own to bring them victory. (S5, ep 2) RATING: NU12

• Hitler's British Invasion Plan

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  May 1940 and the Nazi war machine reaches the English Channel. Hitler plans to destroy Britain's air power and land troops in southern England.

• Japan's Death Railway

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  1942, Japan has captured oil rich Burma to secure its growing empire's future. But with its navy decimated at the Battle of Midway it needs a new supply route. The result is a 258 mile railway.

• The Battle Of Kursk

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  The Battle of Kursk: Following a humiliating defeat at Stalingrad, Hitler demands a switch to Total War before launching the biggest tank battle in history. (2 of 3)

• Hell Island

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  Guadalcanal is the glittering prize of the Pacific. Japan are determined to build an airfield on it. But the US have their eyes on it, too. Whoever controls Guadalcanal will potentially win the Second World War.

• Hitler's Desert War

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  Armed with one of the most famous generals of WWII, Erwin Rommel, Hitler takes on the Allies across Tunisia, Libya and Egypt - in a brutal campaign that pushed the British to their limits and would dictate the course of the war.

• Hitler's War In The Skies

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  January 1943 - with defeat in Russia and North Africa Hitter now has to face a new battle front. The fight for the skies above the fatherland itself.

• Hitler's Mediterranean Fortress

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  When allied spies plant false documents on a corpse, they are carrying out one of the most audacious deceptions of World War II. Operation Mincemeat ensures that the allied invasion of Sicily takes the Nazis by surprise.

• Japan's Island Of Death

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  Japan's Island of Death: A look at Japan's unprecedented defence system in Peleliu, which creating a killing zone that caused the deaths of thousands of US soldiers. 12+.

• Pearl Harbor

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  The extraordinary story of how Japan planned and carried out the surprise air attack on the US Navy in Hawaii.

• Hitler's Death Trains

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  The railways were the lifeblood of the Nazi empire. It was a vast network that spread Nazi ambition and control across Europe and beyond. The programme reveals Hitler's personal train, unseen bunkers, massive depots, railway weapons and record-breaking engines.

• Hitler's Railways of Death

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• Hitler's Italian Fortress

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  From Monte Cassino to San Pietro and ultimately the defence of Rome, this is the amazing story of one of the toughest defensive structures that the Nazis ever conceived.

• Hitler's Luftwaffe

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  The Luftwaffe, a revolutionary German air force, created from nothing and fast-tracked by Hitler to annihilate the enemy from the skies.

• Hitler's Propaganda Machine

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  During the brutal Battle of Berlin in 1945, 100,000 German civilians fight to the death and 6,000 commit suicide. How did the Nazis motivate ordinary civilians to fight even when defeat was inevitable?

• Hitler's Arctic Fortress

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  It's one of the most daring and bold operations of WW2: The Nazi's occupation and fortification of Norway. Hitler demands breath-taking defences along the country's 1500 mile coastline to prevent an Allied invasion. It includes some of the biggest gun batteries of the entire war.

• Hitler's Island Megafortress

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  In June 1940, the Nazis set foot on British soil. The Channel Islands, a British territory is now under German occupation. Hitler becomes obsessed with keeping control of this small corner of Britain and orders the construction of some of the most fortified structures in the Third Reich.

• Lightning War Machine

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  In the first years of WWII, Hitler's Germany crushes its enemies in a series of lightning offensives. A new word is coined to describe this incredible string of successes -'Blitzkrieg' or 'Lightning War'. Ruins scattered across Europe tell the story of a revolution in tactics and weapons.

• The Eagle's Nest

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  In 1933 Hitler transforms his Alpine retreat in Obersalzberg into a mansion - the Berghof, protected by a high level security system. Above the Berghof, on top of Kehlstein mountain, Martin Bormann builds the Eagles Nest; a lavish tea house designed for Hitler to entertain guests and dignitaries.

• Hitler's Killer Subs

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  By early 1943 Nazi Germany is losing the battle in the Atlantic. Their U-Boat menace is no longer invulnerable to attack. It could cost them the war. But since 1940 Hitler have been planning a submarine capable of fast underwater speeds and phenomenal firepower, the world's most advanced submarine.

• Japanese Superfortress

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  April 1945. The war in the Pacific has now fully turned against the Japanese forces. In a fierce campaign the Americans are winning battles, rapidly gaining ground in their goal of invading mainland Japan. But the Japanese decide that the island of Okinawa will be their last bastion of defence.

• Pacific Megaships

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  In 1934 Japan begins designing The Yamato, the most powerful battleship in history. Japan is determined to retain control in the Pacific and builds a ship 30% larger than anything their enemies have. Constructed in secrecy, the Japanese go to extraordinary lengths to ensure no detail is revealed.

• War On The Eastern Front

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  This is the story of Hitler's invasion of Russia with the biggest invasion force ever assembled and the greatest tank battle in history.

• V1: Hitler's Vengeance Missile

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  In retaliation for Allied bombing raids, Hitler ordered the development of the V1. The first cruise missile, it changed the face of war forever.

• Hitler's Flying Forces

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  From the Battle of Britain to the invasion of the Soviet Union, the Luftwaffe's Heinkel He 111 and Junkers Ju 88 bombers were meant to annihilate the enemy from the skies.

• Hitler's Siegfried Line

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  The campaign to breach Hitler's 400 mile-long Siegfried Line took more than six months and cost the American forces 140,000 casualties.

• Hitler's Megafortresses

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  Hitler's plan for world domination relies on massive megafortresses, built to hold back an Allied invasion. Norway is an Arctic frontline from which the Nazis can target the Soviet Union.

• Wolf's Lair, The

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  A secret headquarters of concrete and steel is the heart of Hitler’s plans for domination and the key to a Nazi conspiracy - the Wolf’s Lair.

• Battle For The Pacific

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  As American forces sweep across the Pacific, the Japanese fight to their last breath to protect mainland Japan. They turn to desperate tactics with kamikaze suicide bombers using killer planes.

• Himmler's SS

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  In a quest for world domination, the Nazis built some of the biggest, deadliest pieces of military hardware and malevolent technology in history.

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• Hitler's Henchmen

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  This is the story of Himmler and Goebbels, the two men tasked with building the largest social megastructure of Nazi Germany. One used the power of fear. The other, the power of the human mind.

• Hitler's Megaships

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  The Bismarck and Tirpitz were battleships of record breaking proportions, ultimate status symbols of the Third

• Hitler's War At Sea

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  In a bid to out gun the British in the battle for the Atlantic, Hitler orders the largest battleships the world had ever seen. The Bismarck and the Tirpitz. But they would not last long.

• Kamikaze Suicide Bombers

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  As America closes in on Japan in 1944, the Japanese turn to desperate new tactics: killer planes and super torpedoes guided by human pilots.

• Hitler's Deadly Tanks

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  Working in unison with the Stuka dive bombers, the German Panzer division smashes through Poland and France, but meets unexpected resistance with the invasion of the Soviet Union.

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  A look inside the impressive feats of engineering behind Hitler's most audacious hideouts.

• Atlantic Wall

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  Discover the story behind the defensive wall, stretching thousands of kilometres, built by the Third Reich to protect themselves from the Allies.

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  The ambitious Atlantic Wall sucked in huge quantities of raw materials and men from all over the Third Reich, and faced its ultimate test on D-Day.

• U Boat Base

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  To create a safe haven in port for their lethal U-boat submarines, the Nazis built massive, impenetrable submarine pens that still survive today.

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  The innovative technology behind the war machines ordered by Hitler to crush his enemies.

• V2 Rocket Bases

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  Discover how Nazi scientist Wernher von Braun heralded the birth of ballistic missiles and laid the technological foundations for the space race.

• Hitler's Fighting Retreat

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  Hitler's Fighting Retreat: The story of the defensive structures behind the most brutal fighting retreat of World War II - Hitler's bid to halt the Soviet advance. (3 of 3)

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  In retaliation for devastating Allied bombing raids on German cities, Hitler orders the development of new weapons; The world's first cruise missile - the V1, And the first ever long-range rockets, the V2.

• Super Tanks

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  The story of Nazi engineers tasked with fulfilling Hitler's megalomaniac demand for the construction of a land battleship weighing 1,000 tons.

• Hitler's Jet Caves

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  Explore the story behind one of the most advanced aeroplanes of WWII, the Messerschmitt Me 262, and the subterranean bat-cave where it was built.

• Fortress Berlin

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  April 1945. Safe in his heavily fortified Führerbunker in the centre of Berlin, Hitler prepares for the Allies' final attack.

• Ww2 Railways of Death

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  Learn how Japan and Germany's infrastructure affected the war.

• Biggest Guns of Ww2

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  The best of WWII's artillery and weaponry.

• Deadly Battles of The Pacific

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  The Japanese fought a series of bloody battles against the Allies.

• Hitler's Inner Circle

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  Inside Hitler's inner circle.