Victory at Sea is a documentary television series about naval warfare during World War II that was originally broadcast by NBC in the USA in 1952–1953. It was condensed into a film in 1954. Excerpts from the music soundtrack, by Richard Rodgers and Robert Russell Bennett, were re-recorded and sold as record albums. The original TV broadcasts comprised 26 half-hour segments—Sunday afternoons at 3pm in most markets—starting October 26, 1952 and ending May 3, 1953. The series, which won an Emmy award in 1954 as "best public affairs program", played an important part in establishing historic "compilation" documentaries as a viable television genre. Over 13,000 hours of footage gathered from US, British, German and Japanese navies during World War II were perused in the making of these compelling episodes.
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An analysis of the life of German officer and physician Josef Mengele, exploring his youth and studies, his adherence to Nazism, the inhumane experiments conducted at Auschwitz, and the connection between Nazism and the German academic system.
A documentary series about heroines of the II World War. Stories told from the perspective of the characters are full of emotions and tension, they show courage, sacrifice, willpower but also recklessness or pragmatism. Characters of the series are not flawless monuments but regular women with their own problems, who happened to play an important role in the history. The visual style of the project is animadoc. It comprises archival materials, interviews with experts, and sequences of fictionalised scenes: shots stylised as comic frames, where an actor is connected with scenography hand-drawn by comics illustrators.
World War II was marked by its epic battles, which decided the fate of nations and changed the course of history. From Germany's Blitzkrieg attacks on Poland that launched the European campaign to the Allied invasion of Berlin that signaled its violent end, we bring these seminal conflicts to life through never-before-seen colorized combat footage. This six-part series puts you in the center of the action through rarely scene films from the frontline plus personal memoirs and oral histories from both sides of the battle lines.
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World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.
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.
Follows the World War II exploits of a group of military prisoners turned soldiers, led by the tough as nails Lt. Danko who assigned each squad member a place based on their abilities.
Who were the Yugoslav Partisans? A docuseries about the founding and evolution of the largest armed resistance in Europe during World War II.
Alone and without her parents, Judith Dunbar spends her school days in a boarding school. When her friend Loveday invites her to Gut Nancherrow one day, it is love at first sight for Judith. The elegant lady of the house Diana, her husband Colonel Cary-Lewis and Loveday's siblings Edward and Athena immediately fall in love with her and treat her like family. But the outbreak of the Second World War put an end to the idyll on Nancherrow overnight. A long, thorny road lies ahead of Judith until she finally finds happiness in a family of her own...
Five-part adaptation of Anne Frank's famous wartime diaries in which a young teenager and her family go into hiding from the Nazis in wartime Amsterdam.
The Valiant Years was a documentary produced by ABC based on the memoirs of Winston Churchill, directed by Anthony Bushell and John Schlesinger, narrated by Gary Merrill and with extracts from the memoirs voiced by Richard Burton. It ran in the United States from 1960 to 1961, in 27 30-minute episodes and was broadcast in the UK by the BBC from February to August 1961. Its incidental music was written by Richard Rodgers, who won an Emmy for it in 1962. Scriptwriters included Victor Wolfson a dramatist and writer, Quentin Reynolds, William L. Shirer an American journalist, war correspondent and historian, and Richard Tregaskis. One of the program's London-based producers was actor Patrick Macnee, just prior to his being cast as secret agent John Steed in the long-running cult TV series The Avengers.,
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Using witness testimony, archive and archaeological evidence, this three-part series reveals the untold story of the preparations to defend World War Two Britain by the Home Guard.
AJP Taylor, the renowned historian, appraises the performance of World War Two leaders. In this series he delivers his lectures to camera and without an autocue.
Submarines today are highly complex machines crammed with technology and weapons. As impressive as their construction is, as terrifying is their destructive power. Hardly any other weapon triggers as many emotions as the submarine. It strikes from ambush and can use nuclear missiles to drag the whole world into the abyss. Submarines originated from a completely non-military idea, namely to be able to view the world under water. But the interest in the military use of submarines soon prevailed.
Jungle Warfare in the 20th century, from WW2, to Malaya and Indonesia, to Vietnam and Cuba.
The misadventures of hapless cafe owner René Artois and his escapades with the Resistance in occupied France.
The epic television history of the Second World War’s Eastern Front giving an unprecedented Russian perspective on the war’s most decisive and bloody theater.
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26 episodes • 1952Avg: 5.1Golden Era
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DESIGN FOR WAR: Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1941 | Oct 26, 1952 | 5.0 |
| 2 | THE PACIFIC BOILS OVER: Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 | Nov 2, 1952 | 5.0 |
| 3 | SEALING THE BREACH: Anti-submarine warfare, 1941-1943 | Nov 9, 1952 | 5.0 |
| 4 | MIDWAY IS EAST: Japanese victories & the Midway Battle | Nov 23, 1952 | 5.0 |
| 5 | MEDITERRANEAN MOSAIC: Gibraltar, Allied & enemy fleets, Malta | Nov 30, 1952 | 5.0 |
| 6 | GUADALCANAL | Dec 14, 1952 | 5.0 |
| 7 | RINGS AROUND RABAUL: Struggle for the Solomon Islands | Dec 21, 1952 | 5.0 |
| 8 | MARE NOSTRUM: Mediterranean Command, 1940-1942 | Dec 28, 1952 | 5.0 |
| 9 | SEA AND SAND: Invasion of North Africa, 1942-1943 | Jan 4, 1953 | 5.0 |
| 10 | BENEATH THE SOUTHERN CROSS: War in the south Atlantic | Jan 11, 1953 | 5.0 |
| 11 | THE MAGNETIC NORTH: War from Murmansk to Alaska | Jan 18, 1953 | 5.0 |
| 12 | THE CONQUEST OF MICRONESIA: Carrier warfare--Gilberts and Marshalls | Jan 25, 1953 | 5.0 |
| 13 | MELANESIAN NIGHTMARE: New Guinea campaign | Feb 1, 1953 | 5.0 |
| 14 | ROMAN RENAISSANCE: Sicily and the Italian campaign | Feb 8, 1953 | 5.0 |
| 15 | D-DAY: Normandy | Feb 15, 1953 | 5.5 |
| 16 | KILLERS AND THE KILL: Victory in the Atlantic, 1943-1945 | Feb 22, 1953 | 6.0 |
| 17 | THE TURKEY SHOOT: Conquest of the Marianas | Mar 1, 1953 | 5.0 |
| 18 | TWO IF BY SEA: Peleliu and Angaur | Mar 8, 1953 | 5.0 |
| 19 | BATTLE FOR LEYTE GULF: Sea battle for Leyte Gulf | Mar 15, 1953 | 6.0 |
| 20 | RETURN OF THE ALLIES: Liberation of the Philippines | Mar 22, 1953 | 5.0 |
| 21 | FULL FATHOM FIVE: U.S. submarines | Mar 29, 1953 | 5.0 |
| 22 | THE FATE OF EUROPE: Black Sea, south of France, surrender | Apr 5, 1953 | 5.0 |
| 23 | TARGET SURIBACHI: Iwo Jima | Apr 12, 1953 | 5.5 |
| 24 | THE ROAD TO MANDALAY: China, Burma, India, and Indian Ocean | Apr 19, 1953 | 5.0 |
| 25 | SUICIDE FOR GLORY: Okinawa | Apr 26, 1953 | 5.0 |
| 26 | DESIGN FOR PEACE: Surrender of Japan & aftermath of war | May 3, 1953 | 5.0 |