All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Stopping Hitler's A-Bomb

    • September 1, 2005
    • BBC One

    How a team of Norwegian raiders kept an A-bomb ingredient from the Germans by destroying a factory.

  • S01E02 Prison Busters

    • September 13, 2005
    • BBC One

    How French Resistance operatives were freed from Amiens prison through exacting targeted bombing of the prison walls by the Mosquito fighter-bomber.

  • S01E03 Radar Beam Raiders

    • September 15, 2005
    • BBC One

    The British capture of a German radar installation that was key to the Nazi air-defense system is recalled.

  • S01E04 Storm at St Nazaire

    • September 22, 2005
    • BBC One

    The mission of the destroyer HMS Campbeltown to destroy the dry dock at St. Nazaire, the only dock large enough to repair Germany's giant battleship Tirpitz, thus making Britain's Atlantic sea operations safer.

  • S01E05 Cockleshell Raiders

    • September 29, 2005
    • BBC One

    How a special force in canoes tried to clog the flow of Nazi supplies moving through Bordeaux.

  • S01E06 Arctic Commando Assault

    • October 6, 2005
    • BBC One

    A British commando assault on Vaagso, Norway, in December 1941, which duped Hitler into committing and ultimately wasting 250,000 Nazi troops, who were pinned down there for the rest of the war.