All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 D-Day: The Normandy Landings

    • July 5, 2019
    • U&Yesterday

    In June 1944, the combined British, Canadian and American armies make up the most powerful invasion force ever. They plan to establish a bridgehead in Normandy, storming beaches along a 50 mile front while airborne troops secure targets inland.

  • S01E02 Battle for Caen

    • July 12, 2019
    • U&Yesterday

    This edition examines the efforts of the British and Canadians who fought elite German divisions to capture the city of Caen, the key to breaking out of Normandy.

  • S01E03 Breakout of Normandy

    • July 19, 2019
    • U&Yesterday

    Examining the work of the American forces who launched a huge offensive to blast a gap in the German lines and break through to liberate France.

  • S01E04 Market Garden

    • July 26, 2019
    • U&Yesterday

    Field Marshal Montgomery's daring airborne plan to end the war by Christmas, which went a bridge too far at Arnhem.

  • S01E05 Battle for the Scheldt

    • August 2, 2019
    • U&Yesterday

    As the Allies' advance stalls, the Canadians had to seize Hitler's island fortress to open up the vital port of Antwerp and keep the war moving.

  • S01E06 Battle for the Siegfried Line

    • August 9, 2019
    • U&Yesterday

    The Allies entered Germany and ran into the Siegfried Line. American troops fought to a gruelling, bloody standstill in the Huertgen Forest at a terrible cost.

  • S01E07 Battle of the Bulge

    • August 16, 2019
    • U&Yesterday

    Hitler's launch of his great counter-offensive against the unsuspecting Allies in the Ardennes. This was the Nazis' last gamble in the West to turn the tide of the war.

  • S01E08 Crossing the Rhine

    • August 23, 2019
    • U&Yesterday

    The Allies reached the last great natural barrier between their forces and the German heartland. If they could get across the River Rhine, the war would be won.