Wars of The World
Episodes
15 episodes
The Rise & Fall of the Third Reich: Hitler's 12 Years of Terror | Documentary
Officially known as the German Reich, Nazi Germany was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when it was headed by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party, who governed by way of a totalitarian dictatorship. The term ‘Third Reich’ means ‘Third Realm’...
36 Days of Hell: The Battle of Iwo Jima | WWII Documentary
In the spring of 1945, The Battle of Iwo Jima raged between the US Marines and Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Army. Tasked with capturing the Japanese island and its accompanying airfields, the US launched a five-week assault that ultimately b...
The Battle of The Bulge: Arctic Warfare Hell...
The Battle of the Bulge, or the Ardennes Offensive, launched on December 16th, 1944 and was one of the last major German offensives of the Second World War. Although the Germans had gotten off to a strong start, the resulting battle dealt sever...
The Second Battle of Fallujah: The Iraq Wars Bloodiest Fight...
In late 2004, the Second Battle of Fallujah commenced. It was an American-led offensive during the Iraq War, with the operation involving the efforts of the United States, United Kingdom and Iraqi Interim Government in what is considered the wa...
Hitler's Strange Fascination With His Niece...
Referred to by Vanity Fair as Hitler’s Doomed Angel, Geli Raubal was the fuhrer’s niece, whose demise at the age of 23 was swept under the carpet almost as quickly as it had come. Over the years, the pair’s relationship has come under intense s...
The Last One Hundred Days of the Western Front...
The First World War was the culmination of the age of empires meeting the industrial revolution of the late 19th century. The battlefield had become a machine of death, crushing out life from thousands of soldiers with an efficiency never befor...
The Second Boer War: When Britain Fought South Africa | Military Documentary
The Second Boer War, also known as the Anglo-Boer War, raged between October 1899 and May 1902. Involved in the conflict were the British and the Boer residents in the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, both regions established i...
Battle of Ramadi: The Gettysburg of the Iraq War | Documentary
The Second Battle of Ramadi, fought in 2006 during the Iraq War, saw the US military and Iraqi Security Forces come together to drive insurgent groups out of the city of Ramadi. In a tense and difficult battle, coalition forces sought to captur...
The SBS: Great Britains HARDEST & Most Secretive Military Unit...
September 1999. On the small south-east Asian island of Timor, demands for independence from Indonesia which had ruled over the population there since annexing it in 1976 had grown to such an extent as to spark open violence between those who w...
The Mysterious UFOs of The First World War...
The Great War – the First World War – had its own stories of Foo Fighters, again set against the paranoid backdrop of technology advancing seemingly out of control. The Airship Scare or Scareship phenomenon became a very real menace to the Alli...
The Bombing of Rotterdam: May 14th, 1940...
On the afternoon of May 14th, 1940, beleaguered citizens in the Dutch city of Rotterdam looked skyward as they heard the approaching drone of German bombers; through the thick, noxious smoke drifting upward from burning buildings, they could ju...
Where Hitler Went to Relax...
Jonathan Glazer's 2023 critically acclaimed film The Zone of Interest follows the life of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoss and his family as they go about their daily lives, right next to the infamous concentration camp. It shows the unsettling...
The Anne Frank Story...
“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” These are the words of an extraordinary young girl whose words have provided light in one of the darkest chapters of Human history. These are the words of Annelies Marie Fr...