All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Unlikely Friends (1)

    • November 10, 2008
    • BBC

    Details the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 together with the start of Operation Barbarossa, the 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union.

  • S01E02 Unlikely Friends (2)

    • November 17, 2008
    • BBC

    Explores the relationship between the Soviet Union and Britain during the war, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and plans for a Western Front in Europe.

  • S01E03 Cracks in the Alliance (1)

    • November 24, 2008
    • BBC

    Features the Moscow Conference between Stalin and Churchill and two battles on the Eastern Front: Stalingrad and Kursk.

  • S01E04 Cracks in the Alliance (2)

    • December 1, 2008
    • BBC

    Covers the Teheran Conference, the first between the "Big Three", D-Day in France and the Warsaw Uprising.

  • S01E05 Dividing the World (1)

    • December 8, 2008
    • BBC

    Features the Battle of Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge, the Yalta Conference, the push to Berlin, and the victory over Germany from the perspective of Allied nations.

  • S01E06 Dividing the World (2)

    • December 15, 2008
    • BBC

    This final episode focuses on Operation August Storm, the end to the Pacific War, the Potsdam Conference, the fall from grace of Zhukov and Molotov, the death of Stalin, to the eventual fall of communist influence with the Berlin Wall in 1989.

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