S1 E1: Liberation of Paris
To keep France free, 400,000 English soldiers have manned the battlefields. Germany's strength is too great and pushes the British to the coast town of Dunkirk.
23 minutes
Battlefront: WWII Road to Victory
The fiercest battles of World War II are examined and shown in color.
S1 E2: Fall of Poland
German tanks roll into Poland in September 1939.
23 minutes
S1 E3: The Battle of Norway - Early 1940
Early in the war, the Germans decide they need to guarantee access to the Norwegian port of Narvik to ensure their supplies of Swedish iron ore. The British, however, send destroyers to up-end the German plan.
23 minutes
S1 E7: The Battle of Malta - June 1941
In 1941, Mussolini desperately wants to wrest the tiny island of Malta from the British for control of the Mediterranean. When his inadequate air force fails to bomb the Maltese into submission, Hitler's Luftwaffe joins the campaign.
23 minutes
S1 E8: The Fall of Singapore - October 1941
Before the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese initiate the Pacific War by firing on the British in Malaya. Their route to the rubber-rich nation takes them into Singapore, the World's most armed fortress.
23 minutes
S1 E11: The Battle of Midway - June 2, 1942
Only one isolated atoll prevents an enemy invasion of Hawaii. Midway Island is where the Japanese fleet converges on a tiny American base with a massive strafing and bombing attack.
23 minutes
S1 E12: The Solomon Islands - July 1942
For the first time since Americans entered the war, Marines face Japanese infantrymen at Guadalcanal. In the jungles, two powerful armies clash in a six month battle that claims nearly 30,000 lives.
23 minutes
S1 E15: El Alamein
Erwin Rommel battles Allied forces in North Africa in 1942.
23 minutes
S1 E16: North Africa - November 1942
In the North African desert in 1942, American fighting forces encounter the dreaded Rommel for the first time to stop the German war machine.
23 minutes
S1 E18: Battle of Sicily
Fresh from victory in North Africa, the Allies successfully invade the island of Sicily, staging an eventual Italian withdrawal from the war.
23 minutes
S1 E21: The Gilbert Islands - November 1943
Bloody fighting erupts on a group of tiny Pacific islands in November 1943.
23 minutes
S1 E23: Kwajalein
Examining the battle at the Kwajelein Atoll in the South Pacific during 1944. Included: operations by the Seabees.
23 minutes
S1 E32: Mount Belvedere
The Battle of the Gothic Line in 1944.
23 minutes
S1 E35: Battle of Remagen
German forces retreat across the Rhine on the Remagen bridge near the close of the war.
23 minutes