1945: The Year that Changed the World: The Beginning of the End
The Allies were determined to inflict total defeat on their enemies, at any cost. But following Victory the big three Britain, American and Russia fought each other for supremacy. The shape of the world we live in today is the legacy of events that took place in 1945.This episode: Tensions between the Allies mount. The British want to strike into the heart of Germany but the Americans are cautious and don’t want to loose men. This allows the Russians to advance deep into Eastern Europe Read more
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1945: The Year that Changed the World: The End of the Dictators
The Allies were determined to inflict total defeat on their enemies, at any cost. But following Victory the big three Britain, American and Russia fought each other for supremacy. The shape of the world we live in today is the legacy of events that took place in 1945.This episode: The true horror of the Nazi regime is exposed as the Allies fight the Germans in their homeland and liberate survivors of the concentration camps. Read more
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1945: The Year that Changed the World: The Future Takes Shape
The Allies were determined to inflict total defeat on their enemies, at any cost. But following Victory the big three Britain, American and Russia fought each other for supremacy. The shape of the world we live in today is the legacy of events that took place in 1945.This episode: After the end of the war millions of people were forced to move home and country, as borders were redrawn and new occupying governments installed. The war had made the Americans the richest nation in the world and they were ready to impose their views around the globe. Britain was victorious but bankrupt. Read more
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1945: The Year that Changed the World: The Victors Carve up Europe
The Russians wanted to control large parts of Europe and the Americans were not prepared to back up the British in their fight to keep Eastern Europe out of Stalin’s grip. By July a new world order began to emerge dominated by two, not three, superpowers. Read moreCategories:
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1945: The Year that Changed the World: War in the Pacific
The Japanese industrialised early in the Twentieth Century but with no supply of natural resources, they embarked on a strategy of territorial expansionism and sought to stamp their mark on the region. The Americans and British were not happy about this and wanted to protect their own colonial interests in the region. The Americans put an embargo on trade with Japan. The Japanese choice was to give in to American wishes or launch a war against the USA. Read moreCategories:
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American War Eagles: Boeing B-29 Superfortress
A three part series which looks in depth at three of the most prolific bombers of World War II through dramatic newsreel footage.The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was the most advanced bomber aircraft to see operation service during World War II.
It was the first bomber with pressurised crew compartments. It differed from its predecessors by the use of remotely controlled machine gun turrets. During the war it was sent to the Pacific area, where its great range made it particularly suited to the long attack flights to Japan from bases in China. The B-29s “Enola Gay” and “Bock’s Car” became the only two aircraft to drop atomic weapons during wartime – in August 1945 over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Read more
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American War Eagles: The Chance Vought F4U Corsair
A three part series which looks in depth at three of the most prolific bombers of World War II through dramatic newsreel footage.The F4U Corsair is regarded by many as one of the greatest combat aircraft in history. When conceived, it mounted the most powerful engine and biggest propeller of any fighter in existence, and was the first US combat aircraft to exceed 400 mph. The US Navy adopted the F4U as a shipboard fighter-bomber in 1944, despatching large numbers from the carriers of the Pacific Fleet. By the end of the war, it had established a destruction ratio of 11:1 against the enemy. Read more
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American War Eagles: The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
A three part series which looks in depth at three of the most prolific bombers of World War II through dramatic newsreel footage.In the history of military aviation, there has never been an aircraft that could match the P-47 Thunderbolt for ruggedness and dependability.
The pilots who flew it called it “The Unbreakable” and “The Plane that can do anything”. They were not wrong. P-47s often came back from combat shot full of holes, their wings and control surfaces in tatters, but in one piece. They flew more than 546,000 combat sorties between March 1943 and August 1945, destroying 11874 enemy aircraft , 9000 locomotives and 6000 armoured vehicles and tanks. Only 0.7% of these remarkable machines were lost in combat. Read more
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Appointment in Tokyo
The American war effort in the Pacific from the fall of Bataan and the Philippines to the surrender of Japan. This feature covers the events through the use of original US and Japanese newsreels. Read moreCategories:
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Attack! The Battle for New Britain
Documentary film depicting the attack by Allied forces on the Japanese strong-holds of Arawe Beach and Cape Gloucester; New Britain; in the South Pacific theatre of the Second World War in 1943. Read moreCategories:
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Crusade in Europe: Africa - Our First Offensive
Crusade in Europe: US Government produced documentary including footage from USN; US Army; US Coastguard; British War Office; National Film Board of Canada and captured Nazi materials all demonstrating the events; forces; leaders and challenges of WWII. This episode documents the Allied offensive in North Africa during WW II. Read moreCategories:
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Crusade in Europe: America Goes to War
Crusade in Europe: US Government produced documentary including footage from USN; US Army; US Coastguard; British War Office; National Film Board of Canada and captured Nazi materials all demonstrating the events; forces; leaders and challenges of WWII. In this episode, we are shown how America prepares to participate in World War II. Read moreCategories:
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Crusade in Europe: America's Unpreparedness
Part of Crusade in Europe: America's participation in WWII, with footage taken from the US Army, Navy and Coast Guard; the British War Office, National Film Board of Canada and captured Nazi Materials. This episode depicts how America was taken by surprise at the tumultuous events that led to its participation in WW II. Read moreCategories:
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Crusade in Europe: Assault on Italy
Crusade in Europe: US Government produced documentary including footage from USN; US Army; US Coastguard; British War Office; National Film Board of Canada and captured Nazi materials all demonstrating the events; forces; leaders and challenges of WWII. In this episode, we see the Allied forces as they prepare for and launch the assault on Italy. Read moreCategories:
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Crusade in Europe: Beachhead and Breakthrough
Crusade in Europe: US Government produced documentary including footage from USN; US Army; US Coastguard; British War Office; National Film Board of Canada and captured Nazi materials all demonstrating the events; forces; leaders and challenges of WWII. This episode describes Operation Beachhead which was the period immediately after D-Day, as the Allies prepare to drive the Nazis further back. Read moreCategories:
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