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- DirectorMax LewkowiczStarsLynsey AddarioJames EstrinMike ForsterAn HBO Documentary Film. Tony Vaccaro, a WWII infantryman, smuggled his $47.00 portable camera into battle to create one of the most comprehensive and intimate records of the war.
- DirectorRobert MugnerotStarsDoug RandThe plot of the documentary reveals the role of Azerbaijan and its people in defeating Nazism and the strategic importance of the Azerbaijani oil during the war.
- DirectorKyle HuntStarsGerhard AusmeierJohn DeNugentThomas GoodrichA documentary that tells the tale that the victors still do not want you to know. Learn the terrible truth about the rape, torture, slavery, and mass murder inflicted upon the German people by the Allied victors of World Word II.
- StarsRoman PolanskiBudzimira WojtalewiczAndrzej WajdaEnglish title: The Invasion: The Outbreak of WW2. This 90 minute documentary (broken into 2 parts in Australia) is a detailed look at what happened in Poland during WW2. Featuring interviews with German, Polish and Jewish survivors, it incorporates real footage and reenactments to detail a story that is virtually unknown outside of Poland. They were the first victims.
- DirectorRick BeyerStarsAl AlbrechtSpike BerryEd BiowDuring World War II, a group of American GI's undertook a mission to create a traveling road show of deception on the battlefields of Europe. Their secret mission was kept a secret for nearly 50 years after the war's end.
- StarsAlisdair SimpsonJon WenningtonJo Hedwig TeeuwisseProfiles of secret operatives for the Allies in World War II.
- DirectorJean-Christoph CaronStarsJonathan BoothDuring World War II, Allied operatives went on secret missions to kill Adolph Hitler and his top officers, including Erwin Rommel. This film captures the real-time drama felt as the Special Forces ordered these dangerous and complicated missions to exotic locations.
- StarsRobert PowellSwaylee LoughnaneRecounts the events of world War II in color.
- StarsGary SiniseCharles ScheffelRon LivingstonFollow the lives of soldiers who lived World War II, through previously unseen color footage.
- StarsMathieu KassovitzMartin SheenRudolf HessThis six-part series traces the Second World War, from the rise of the Nazis to the surrender of the Japanese, with detailed portraits of key figures.
- DirectorUllrich KastenStarsFrank ArnoldWinston ChurchillJoseph GoebbelsUllrich Kasten draws parallels between the trajectories of the two 20th century dictators, who never met each other but had in common their anti-Semitism and a form of paranoia. The director describes in particular the terrible game of liar's poker they played at the time of the German-Soviet pact. Thus, when Nazi Germany invaded the USSR on June 22, 1941, Stalin was dumbfounded. He was slow to react and gave contradictory orders. During this time, the German troops, hardened by several blitzkriegs, triumphed. The Führer already saw himself in Moscow, which he said he wanted to raze to the ground and replace with a huge artificial lake. Then, faced with his failure, he swore to destroy Stalingrad. This terrible battle will be the turning point of the war.
- StarsNicholas RoweSimon MayallVasiliy ChuikovAlso known as the Russian Front, this installment goes over the strategies of Field Marshall Freidrich Paulus (promoted by Hitler just before surrendering) and Lt. Gen. Vasily Chuikov.
- StarsKeith DavidKatharine PhillipsTom HanksA seven-part series focusing on the many ways in which the Second World War impacted the lives of American families.
- DirectorJean-Christoph CaronJörg Müllner
- DirectorRichard DaleKim BourPamela GordonStarsIan HolmAndré HeintzRaimund SteinerDramatised documentary, based on the experiences of the soldiers who invaded France in the D-Day Normandy Landings on 6 June 1944 which were instrumental in ending World War II.
- DirectorMark LewisStarsBerge AdavanianSidney AlfordGeoff BarkwayFrom the ordinary to the incredible, the requirements of the Allied forces, when making their long awaited invasion to drive the Nazis back from their Atlantic Wall, were the stuff of future legends. What was needed to not only land the invading forces, but also to try and help them fight their way off the beaches into the French countryside, taxed the inventiveness of man. From tanks laying their own tracks to gliders and pre-invasion reconnaissance to check the firmness of the beaches, it was all thought of and used to the maximum in making D-Day a success.
- StarsBob van TolAlbrecht AppeltHans RostewitzThe World War 2 Battle of Stalingrad from the initial attack to the repatriation of the survivors after the war.
- StarsRobert PowellIn this BBC documentary series newly declassified documents are used to examine the strategic roles played in the war by thirteen of the world's regular and resistance land, sea and air forces.
- StarsJohn MichieJohn AldridgeMax HastingsTimewatch sheds new light on the final stages of the Allied strategic bombing campaign.
- DirectorRichard SchickelStarsTom HanksStephen AmbroseRuss MeyerProduced by Steven Spielberg and presented by Tom Hanks this documentary tells how war photographers faced the horrors that looked both in Europe and in the Pacific during World War II .
- StarsEdward HerrmannSamuel WestAn examination of atrocities and depredations committed by Imperial Japanese military forces, from 1931 to 1945.
- StarsSamuel WestAdolf HitlerJoseph StalinDocumentary examining Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
- StarsJohn ThawAdolf HitlerWinston ChurchillThe Second World War In Colour [1999] is a seven-part documentary which reveals hours of previously unseen colour film of World War II. As almost all newsreel film was shot in black and white, this DVD offers a completely new portrait of the war. Dramatic colour footage from as early as 1933 shows home movies of Adolf Hitler and his cohorts, the devastation wrought by the Blitzkrieg, life on the home front, D-Day and the Allied invasion of France, British bombers defying German fighters, the horror of the Holocaust that troops met as they entered Germany, and the jubilation of the final Allied victory. With John Thaw's narration intercut with spoken accounts from the letters and diaries of those who fought, those who survived, and those the war claimed as victims, this documentary is an extraordinary remembrance of a monumental time in world history.
- StarsRobert PowellSwaylee LoughnaneRarely has a war produced such clear cut reasons to fight as World War II. Suddenly, ordinary men and women found themselves thrown into fearsome, situations worthy of any Hollywood movie. The only difference in this series is that every story is true. Real people emerge as the Heroes of Telemark. Ordinary GIs and US Airforce and Navy personnel suddenly find themselves flying against the Japanese in China, jungle fighting in Burma and being dropped by submarine on enemy coasts at midnight. These untold stories can now be examined in great detail with the benefit of hindsight, newly-discovered film, maps and graphics. Each fifty-two minute story covers the background to the main action. It will give the viewer a clear view of the historical context, the strategic objective and the tactical effort made by flyers, sailors and foot-soldiers - often in the most oppressive and life-threatening situations - to win victory from the enemy.