Explore the universal drama of war: why leaders and soldiers pick up arms to fight, the technologies that have determined outcomes, the tragedies and triumphs of history’s great battles.

Battlefields of the World Wars

S1, EP8 "The Liberation of Paris"

Parisians rise to help the Allied forces drive Germany out of the city they occupied for four years; Gen. Charles de Gaulle makes a public address in Paris.

Battlefields of the World Wars

S1, EP4 "The Massacre of Dieppe: 1942"

Scores of Canadian soldiers fall in a failed raid on a German port.

Battlefields of the World Wars

S1, EP3 "Battle of the Alps: 1940"

A small French force defends against the invading Italian army; the French government retreats to Bordeaux and the Germans take Paris.

Battlefields of the World Wars

S1, EP9 "Battle of the Bulge: 1944"

Exploring one of the deadliest battles in World War II that saw the Germans attempt to use overwhelming force to split the Allied forces.

Operation Foxley -- Mission: Liquidate Hitler

The detailed plan that could have led to the assassination of Adolf Hitler, and why it failed.

The Day When...

S1, EP1 "The Day When Churchill Chose War"

On 28 May 1940, while the Wehrmacht crushed the allied armies in France, British officials are prepared to deal with Hitler.

The Day When...

S1, EP2 "The Day When De Gaulle Chose War"

On 16 June 1940 in Bordeaux, an almost stranger decides to secede and to rebel openly against the policy adopted by the French legal government.

The Day When...

S1, EP3 "The Day When Roosevelt Chose War"

On December 7,1941, while Japanese aviation has just sunk a large part of the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt puts the United States in a state of war and decides to focus the main efforts not against Japan but against Germany.

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