Combat Machines
A look at the military engineering used as US and South Vietnamese forces attempt to overcome North Vietnam and the Viet Cong.
2026-08-01 18:23:35 +0000 UTC→2026-08-01 19:20:49 +0000 UTC(57m)
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Wwii: Witness To War
The conflict in the Pacific provided history with some of the worst reminders of the true meaning of war. Even today the images captured on islands such as Iwo Jima and Okinawa have the power to shock a world by the horrors of more recent events.
2026-08-03 00:44:10 +0000 UTC→2026-08-03 01:40:53 +0000 UTC(56m)
Wwii: Witness To War
By early 1945, the end was in sight. After months of hard fighting the Allies were advancing towards the Rhine and to the east the Russians were closing in on Berlin as part of Operation Bagration.
2026-08-02 23:47:30 +0000 UTC→2026-08-03 00:44:10 +0000 UTC(56m)
Wwii: Witness To War
And so it finally arrived: 6th June 1944, the day that British, US and Canadian troops were sent across the English Channel to begin the job of reclaiming continental Europe and freeing it from German occupation.
2026-08-02 22:51:10 +0000 UTC→2026-08-02 23:47:30 +0000 UTC(56m)
Wwii: Witness To War
The decision by Hitler to send his armies east in to Russia was probably the most significant of the war. Now against military convention, he was fighting on two fronts and almost as bad made a bitter enemy of an erstwhile ally.
2026-08-02 21:54:26 +0000 UTC→2026-08-02 22:51:10 +0000 UTC(56m)
Wwii: Witness To War
This episode remembers some of the thunderous naval battles which took place during the Pacific war. They include the Battle of the Coral Sea, the battle of Midway and the biggest naval engagement of the war – the battle of Leyte Gulf.
2026-08-02 20:57:43 +0000 UTC→2026-08-02 21:54:26 +0000 UTC(56m)
Wwii: Witness To War
Meanwhile in North Africa, the Italian dictator Mussolini had his own ideas about building a new Roman Empire in the region. And so he sent thousands of poorly-trained and ill-prepared Italian troops against the British garrison in Egypt.
2026-08-02 20:01:00 +0000 UTC→2026-08-02 20:57:43 +0000 UTC(56m)
Greatest Escapes of WWII
The German mass breakout that stunned wartime Britain, the astonishing secret behind the daring escape of an American bomber crew trapped in the Soviet Union, and the Trojan Horse of Stalag Luft Three.
2026-08-02 19:03:42 +0000 UTC→2026-08-02 20:01:00 +0000 UTC(57m)
Greatest Escapes of WWII
The German mass breakout that stunned wartime Britain, the astonishing secret behind the daring escape of an American bomber crew trapped in the Soviet Union, and the Trojan Horse of Stalag Luft Three.
2026-08-02 13:18:51 +0000 UTC→2026-08-02 14:16:09 +0000 UTC(57m)
Greatest Escapes of WWII
An adrenaline-fuelled dash through nazi-occupied Europe known as ‘The Flight of the Crow', a death-defying escape across the world's most perilous mountain range, and the largest escape of world war two - by men who chose death over dishonour.
2026-08-02 12:20:38 +0000 UTC→2026-08-02 13:18:51 +0000 UTC(58m)
Greatest Escapes of WWII
Colditz Castle, the foreboding Nazi fortress that became a university of escapology The Great Escape, and the doomed airmen of Stalag Luft Three and the most daring breakout of them all, the ‘Warburg Wire Job'.
2026-08-02 11:23:41 +0000 UTC→2026-08-02 12:20:38 +0000 UTC(56m)
Greatest Escapes of WWII
Hitler's last soldier in America who defied the FBI for 40 years, the Auschwitz prisoners who releaved the secrets of the death camps, and the merciless Nazi who almost got away.
2026-08-02 10:27:11 +0000 UTC→2026-08-02 11:23:41 +0000 UTC(56m)
Greatest Escapes of WWII
The elite German submariners who caused havoc in the heart of the American desert, the playboy pilot they couldn't cage, and the young lovers whose escape defied all odds.
2026-08-02 09:28:36 +0000 UTC→2026-08-02 10:27:11 +0000 UTC(58m)
Greatest Escapes of WWII
The Russian soldier who led a desperate outbreak from a secret Nazi death camp, Operation Chicken - an audacious plan to flee an escape-proof Japanese prison camp, and the pilots whose bold bid for freedom won the admiration of their enemies.
2026-08-02 08:30:48 +0000 UTC→2026-08-02 09:28:36 +0000 UTC(57m)
Greatest Escapes of WWII
The German mass breakout that stunned wartime Britain, the astonishing secret behind the daring escape of an American bomber crew trapped in the Soviet Union, and the Trojan Horse of Stalag Luft Three.
2026-08-02 07:37:39 +0000 UTC→2026-08-02 08:30:48 +0000 UTC(53m)
Greatest Escapes of WWII
An adrenaline-fuelled dash through nazi-occupied Europe known as ‘The Flight of the Crow', a death-defying escape across the world's most perilous mountain range, and the largest escape of world war two - by men who chose death over dishonour.
2026-08-02 06:44:18 +0000 UTC→2026-08-02 07:37:39 +0000 UTC(53m)
Combat Machines
In 1961, Soviet T-54 tanks and American M-48 Patton tanks face off at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin.
2026-08-02 01:04:25 +0000 UTC→2026-08-02 02:02:01 +0000 UTC(57m)
Combat Machines
Exploring the machines that hide in the shadows, capturing, transmitting and analysing vital combat information.
2026-08-02 00:07:04 +0000 UTC→2026-08-02 01:04:25 +0000 UTC(57m)
Combat Machines
We examine the robot that defused bombs both on foreign battlefields and British streets, and an astonishing Gulf War minelayer
2026-08-01 23:09:40 +0000 UTC→2026-08-02 00:07:04 +0000 UTC(57m)
Combat Machines
Examining the machines used by iconic military unit 'The Desert Rats' in the North African desert campaign of World War II.
2026-08-01 22:12:29 +0000 UTC→2026-08-01 23:09:40 +0000 UTC(57m)
Combat Machines
Examining the machines used by iconic military unit 'The Desert Rats' in the North African desert campaign of World War II.
2026-08-01 21:15:08 +0000 UTC→2026-08-01 22:12:29 +0000 UTC(57m)
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