Your Support Is Needed To Help Keep These Sites Running Complete DVD Listings and Descriptions 'THE WORLD AT WAR' Complete DVD Set (The Definitive History Of The Second World War) Click Here To Enlarge CLICK HERE To Buy DVD Box-Set PART ONE "World At War" Difinitive Story THE MAKING OF THE WORLD AT WAR: The story behind the production process and the challenges involved in summarising years of history and millions of feet of archive footage. A NEW GERMANY ~ 1933 - 1939: Germany, a nation stricken by humiliating defeat and emerging from crippling economic depression, looks to one man for a resurgence of hope and dignity. That man is Adolph Hitler... DISTANT WAR ~ 1939 - 1940: In Eastern Europe, the full force of the Nazi machine rolls on - but in Britain, an uneasy calm settles on the nation. It is the 'phoney' war, with the sound of distant guns thundering ominously on the horizon... FRANCE FALLS ~ MAY - JUNE 1940: The French had made the disastrous mistake of preparing for another war like the First World War. Consequently, the French army are totally humiliated... ALONE IN BRITAIN ~ MAY 1940 - JUNE 1941: After Dunkirk, Britain faces the German onslaught. Although the RAF wins the Battle of Britain, the cities are blitzed and on the continent, the last allies are conquered. The outlook is grim... BARBAROSSA ~ JUNE - DECEMBER 1941: Hitler at last turns his tanks towards Russia. After a succession of devastating victories, the Germans delay fatally, and the fierce Russian winter takes a grip... BANZAI - JAPAN STRIKES ~ 1941 - 1942: The Japanese, at war since 1931 on the Chinese mainland, hope for easy victories over the British and Dutch. And then, on December 7th, 1941, the infamous attack on Pearl Harbour... ON OUR WAY - AMERICA ENTERS THE WAR ~ 1939 - 1942: "It was felt that Britain was trying to drag us in. There was even sentiment that England would fight to the last American." Norman Corwin, American Radio Journalist. SKIP SKIP Click Here To Enlarge CLICK HERE To Buy DVD Box-Set PART TWO "World At War" Difinitive Story DESERT - THE WAR IN NORTH AFRICA ~ 1940 - 1943: For two years the 8th army and Rommel's Afrika Korps fight in the wastes of North Africa - finally the tide turns at El Alamein... STALINGRAD ~ 1942 - 1943: Hitler's early successes in Russia made him reckless and he resolves to capture Stalingrad. The battle lasts six months with the Russians emerging as victors. The Wehrmacht never recovers... WOLFPACK ~ 1939 - 1944: In a war of high technology and animal courage, the German U-Boats fight allied merchantmen, hounding them in packs. A German victory at sea will drive Britain from the war... RED STAR - THE SOVIET UNION ~ 1941 - 1943: For two years, the Soviet Army fights the Germans almost alone. After the greatest land battles in history, the nation survives and triumphs - with the loss of no less than twenty million of its people... WHIRLWIND - BOMBING GERMANY ~ SEPTEMBER 1939 - APRIL 1944: Bomber Command are unable to hit precise targets and begin bombing German cities by night. The Americans reinforce the attacks by day: a whirlwind of terror and destruction will win the war... TOUGH OLD GUT ~ 1942 - 1943: Churchill called Italy the 'soft underbelly of the crocodile' and thought the Allies could cut through the heart of Germany. But the soft underbelly turned out to be a 'tough old gut'... IT'S A LOVELY DAY TOMORROW ~ 1942 - 1943: Vera Lynn sang of a lovely day tomorrow, but the war in Burma was mud and monsoon. Britain's largest army learned to master the jungle and fought the Japanese to a standstill... HOME FRIES: At home in Britain during the war - a time of gas masks, Winston Churchill, Coventry, Dig for Victory, evacuation, George Formby, ITMA, the Land Army, the Squander Bug and the Beveridge Report... SKIP SKIP Click Here To Enlarge CLICK HERE To Buy DVD Box-Set PART THREE "World At War" Difinitive Story INSIDE THE REICH ~ GERMANY 1940 - 1944: The Wehrmacht triumpant, luxury goods in the shops, peace just around the corner. But peace is a long way off and the iron ring around the Reich tightens... MORNING ~ JUNE 1944: The Western Allies resolve to invade Europe. England becomes a floating supply dump and the British and Americans assemble the largest invasion fleet in history. It is June 6th 1944 - D Day... OCCUPATION ~ 1940 - 1943: The Netherlands live under Nazi rule for four years and its people must decide where their loyalties lie. In occupied Europe, there are no easy answers... PINCERS ~ AUGUST 1944: From East and West, the Allies close in on the Reich. Germany is crumbling, but it is not defeated yet... GENOCIDE ~ 1933 - 1945: The Nazis are racists; the Aryans are a master race; others, particular Jews, are sub-human. Himmler's SS sets about ridding Europe of millions of Jews... NEMESIS ~ FEB - MAY 1945: Hitler retreats to the Fuhrer bunker in Berlin as Germany crumbles around him. His lieutenants abandon him to a fate of suicide. Meanwhile, the russians raise the red flag in Berlin... JAPAN ~ 1941 - 1945: Japan's rulers think they have the strength to bend Britain and America to their will. But they are wrong... PACIFIC ~ FEB 1942 - JULY 1945 'THE ISLAND TO ISLAN WAR: The Americans fight their way across the Pacific towards Japan and the Philippines. Perhaps the bloodiest campaign of all, each island has to be taken by storm - the Japanese fight to the last man.... SKIP SKIP Click Here To Enlarge CLICK HERE To Buy DVD Box-Set PART FOUR "World At War" Difinitive Story THE BOMB ~ FEB - SEPT 1945: Western scientists have developed a new, immensely powerful weapon - the Atomic Bomb. Should it be used? The moral implications are enormous... RECKONING ~ APRIL 1945: The war ends slowly, messily. Britain is victorious but exhausted. The super powers now confront each other - it is they who will decide the fate of Europe... REMEMBER: For many, the Second World War remains the most significant expericence of their lives. But millions, many more millions than we realise, died... SPECIAL PRESENTATION - SECRETARY TO HITLER Traudl Junge found herself in Berlin during the war because she wanted to be a ballet dancer. A friend told her about a job vacancy in Hitler's chancellery; she applied for it. Looking like Hitler's mistress Eva Braun, she became not a dancer but one of Hitler's private secretaries. She saw him at close quarters, shared his public life, was with him in the Bunker at the end. WHO WON WORLD WAR II? The world in 1945 was a simple place. Germany and Japan utterly defeated. The United States, Britain and the Soviet Union, united in victory, were masters of the world. Years afterwards things are different, Germany is strong, Japan dominates in peace the countries it could not conquer in war. While America and Russia are deadly rivals and Britain is unsettled. Distinguished American Historian Stephen Ambrose gives his startling views regarding the consequences of war. WARRIOR: Some men are terrified of combat; some revel in it: but no man who has experienced it is ever quite the same again. Reflections of men at war compiled from interviws and archive film obtained for The World At War series. SKIP SKIP Click Here To Enlarge CLICK HERE To Buy DVD Box-Set PART FIVE "World At War" Difinitive Story SPECIAL PRESENTATION CONTINUED - HITLER'S GERMANY ~ 1933 - 1939: This programme shows the early years of national socialism, years of optimism, economic recovery and political terror. See how the Germans worked, played and organized themselves for war during the Third Reich'spower. HITLER'S GERMANY ~ 1939 - 1945: Coping with the nightmare of mass bombing, invasion and ultimately defeat, this programme shows how the German nation dealt with day to day life in Hitler's Germany. THE TWO DEATHS OF HITLER: Years after his death, mystery still surrounds the circumstances under which Adolf Hitler ended his life. THE FINAL SOLUTION - PART 1 Examines the growth of the Nazi racial doctrunes from their origins to 1939. THE FINAL SOLUTION - PART 2 Shows how, from 1939 to 1941, what began as a conventional war against armed opponents became a systematic attempt to murder civilians in occupied countries. CLICK HERE To Purchase The Definitive Complete DVD Set CLICK HERE To Purchase The 30th Anniversary DVD Set Check Out The World At War VHS Page Back To The Main World At War Page Back To The Main Doucumentary Index Page War Movie Index Page Get All The Greatest Big Band & Early American Jazz From The 1920's thru the 1940's Come Visit The Historic Complete Victory At Sea Online Homepage