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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Gary Merrill
Narrator
Richard Burton
Winston Churchill
Rita Webb
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.
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The Nazi era from 1993 to 1945 is illustrated through archived material, with insights and anecdotes provided by world-leading experts and commentators.
With the aid of rare archives, this film retraces the bloody history of the SS, some of whose members are still alive and have accepted to speak.
The misadventures of hapless cafe owner René Artois and his escapades with the Resistance in occupied France.
During the darkest days of the Third Reich, the most dreaded sound was a knock at the door after dark. Everyone who lived under Nazi rule lived in fear of the secretive agents known colloquially as "V-Men". Hitler called them his "deadliest weapon", and without them the Fuhrer's ambition could never have been realized.
The story of the Convoys is a tale of compelling drama, full of bravery and tragedy. It takes us into the lives of hundreds of thousands of unheralded men whose incredible everyday courage, played out in the cruel seas and cold skies of the North Atlantic changed the course of the war.
Exploring the eight days in May 1941 when Britain, and Liverpool in particular, was subjected to one of the most intense bombardments of the entire war. Featuring eyewitness accounts and recollections from many whom have never spoken out before.
The series presents an original, non-didactic view of rural Poland during the Nazi occupation, rejecting stereotypes about ubiquitous wartime heroism, sacrifice, and martyrdom. It is a record of a "war-torn" state of consciousness, a drama of lost people who sink into ever greater degradation.
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.
Through vividly enhanced archival footage and voices from all sides of the conflict, this docuseries brings WWII to life like never before.
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.
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In the tradition of WWII-themed graphic novels such as Maus, six remarkable motion comics tell the dramatic stories of the brave people who raised their voices to advocate for Jewish refugees victimized by the Nazis
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.
WWII in the Pacific focuses on the events, notable figures, various bands of brothers, and heroic actions of the Allied powers. Take an inside look, starting with the conflict and tensions leading up to the war, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the evolution of the Pacific Theater, and the development and dropping of the atomic bomb, up until the subsequent end of WWII.
Nazi diehard and fanatics fight to the last man to stop Allied forces from freeing Europe, keeping an unrelenting grip on the naval bases, citadels and fortresses of occupied Europe.
English historian David Reynolds reassesses Stalin's role in the life-and-death struggle between the Soviet Union and Germany in World War II.
This is the story of two wars fought at the same time on opposite ends of the globe, often mislabeled as a single war: The Second World War. These conflicts remade our world in just a few decades. A story of how the rise and fall of great powers, from Nazi Germany to Imperial Japan, recast nations into those who could afford, and those that could not afford The Price of Empire.
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.
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| 1 | The Gathering Storm | TBA | 0.0 |
| 2 | Combat Deepens | TBA | 0.0 |
| 3 | Dunkirk | TBA | 0.0 |
| 4 | French Agony | TBA | 0.0 |
| 5 | Take One with You | TBA | 0.0 |
| 6 | The Ravens Remain | TBA | 0.0 |
| 7 | Struggle at Sea | TBA | 0.0 |
| 8 | Hinge of Fate | TBA | 0.0 |
| 9 | Alone no More | TBA | 0.0 |
| 10 | Out of the East | TBA | 0.0 |
| 11 | The Torch is Lit | TBA | 0.0 |
| 12 | Sand and Snow | TBA | 0.0 |
| 13 | Strike Hard, Strike Home! | TBA | 0.0 |
| 14 | Closing the Ring | TBA | 0.0 |
| 15 | Be Sure you Win | TBA | 0.0 |
| 16 | Turning of the Tide | TBA | 0.0 |
| 17 | The Die is Cast | TBA | 0.0 |
| 18 | D-Day | TBA | 0.0 |
| 19 | Europe Set Ablaze | TBA | 0.0 |
| 20 | Triumph in France | TBA | 0.0 |
| 21 | Beginning of the End | TBA | 0.0 |
| 22 | Final Christmas | TBA | 0.0 |
| 23 | Yalta | TBA | 0.0 |
| 24 | Tying the Knot | TBA | 0.0 |
| 25 | Götterdämmerung | TBA | 0.0 |
| 26 | Goodbye, Mr Churchill | TBA | 0.0 |
| 27 | The Will to Victory | TBA | 0.0 |
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