Ultimate Survival WWII 1

National Geographic
Ultimate Survival WWII 1

Synopsis

Hazen Audel travels across the globe to relive some of the most astonishing stories of wilderness survival from WWII. During this brutal conflict, soldiers, sailors and airmen became lost behind enemy lines in some of the most inhospitable places on Earth, beginning epic battles to stay alive.

Episodes

Season 1
  • Pow Jungle Escape

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    Hazen Audel retraces the survival journey of 11 American soldiers who flee a POW camp in the Philippines during WWII. Hazen follows their escape across the jungle island of Palawan.

  • Frozen Nazi Escape

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    Survivalist Hazen Audel braves the largest plateau in Europe to retrace the white-knuckle escape of Norwegian commandos who thwarted Hitler's creation of an atomic bomb.

  • Death Railway Escape

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    Hazen Audel battles the bamboo jungles of Thailand, mirroring the escape of ten prisoners from a brutal, Japanese labour camp along the Thai-Burma 'Death' Railway during WWII.

  • Nazi Island Manhunt

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    Hazen Audel retraces the epic journey of an escaped POW, who evaded capture on the Nazi occupied island of Crete for more than a year during WW II.

  • Death In The Outback

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    Survival expert Hazen Audel follows the extraordinary survival journey of 4 American airmen who crash landed in Australia's remote Gulf Country during WWII.

  • Desert Island Manhunt

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    Hazen Audel takes on the open ocean and the jungles of the Solomon Islands as he retraces the 43-day survival story of a shipwrecked Naval officer.