Great Blunders of WWII

The Buildings That Fought Hitler

July 2025 •English

Exploring the buildings that were built to defend Britain from a German invasion during World War II. From coastal defences, to secret bases, travel across Britain looking at the buildings that were built to fight Hitler and his advancing army.

SAS Rogue Heroes

July 2025 •English

The dramatised account of how the world’s greatest Special Forces unit, the SAS, was formed under extraordinary circumstances in the darkest days of World War Two.

World War I at Home

July 2025 •English

Stories about the impact of World War I around the regions.

The Saboteurs

July 2025 •Norwegian

When the Nazis secure a heavy water plant to realize their plan to create an atomic bomb, the Norwegian Allies struggle to sabotage the operation.

The War

July 2025 •English

The story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four American towns. The war touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America and demonstrated that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.

The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color

July 2025 •English

This four-hour series narrated by Martin Sheen captures America's wartime experience through original color film footage and compelling passages from diaries and letters. Rare color footage-much of it never before publicly screened-presents a vivid and intimate portrait of life on the battlefield and on the U.S. home front.

Naši synovia

July 2025 •Slovak

Tenko

July 2025 •English

Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of women, formerly comfortably well-off ex-pats living in Singapore, as they are captured by the Japanese during World War II.

Land Girls

July 2025 •English

The lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II.

The World Wars

July 2025 •English

The story of three decades of war told through the eyes of various men who were its key players: Roosevelt, Hitler, Patton, Mussolini, Churchill, Tojo, DeGaulle and MacArthur. The series examines the two wars as one contiguous timeline starting in 1914 and concluding in 1945 with these unique individuals coming of age in World War I before ultimately calling the shots in World War II.

Kronika

July 2025 •Slovak

Buried Secrets of WWII

July 2025 •English

Remote sensing techniques tell the stories of WWII battles and campaigns, the details of which have been lost in the fog of war, misinterpreted or overtaken by the landscape.

Rise of the Nazis

July 2025 •English

How did 20th Century Europe's most liberal democracy fall into the hands of fascists? From Hitler's political scheming that turned Germany's parliament into a House of Cards, his War on Truth leading to book burning, and his scapegoating of minorities, this series explores in extraordinary detail the events leading up to the outbreak of World War II.

Voices of Liberation

July 2025 •English

The writings and eyewitness accounts of wartime participants help trace the story of Europe's liberation during WWII in this historical docuseries.

Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the West

July 2025 •French

May 10th, 1940, Hitler takes on the West. Will he precipitate Europe into the Apocalypse?

Löwengrube

July 2025 •German

"Löwengrube – Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit" is a German television series first aired between 1989 and 1992, created by Willy Purucker and directed by Rainer Wolffhardt. It is set in Munich and follows the lives of Ludwig Grandauer and his son Karl, both policemen, covering the years from 1897 to 1954. The TV show is based on Purucker's radio play series Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit (‘The Grandauers and their time’). The series’ main title "Löwengrube", meaning ‘Lions’ Den’, refers to the address of the Munich Police Headquarters inaugurated in 1913.

Manhattan

July 2025 •English

Set against the backdrop of the greatest clandestine race against time in the history of science with the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Flawed scientists and their families attempt to co-exist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.

Female Spies: Courage and Espionage in WWII

July 2025 •English

It's a little-known part of World War II history: in the Allied secret services, one in ten spies was a woman. A look back at the journeys of these women of exemplary bravery, who, risking their lives, played a decisive role in supporting the Resistance.

The Penal Battalion

July 2025 •Russian

Drama of the penalty parts of political prisoners, who fought on the Soviet fronts.

Na De Bevrijding

July 2025 •Dutch