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Revealing more family strategies at work, and the heavy price the young pay in hostile takeovers. Part 6 of 12.
On Christmas Eve 1968, one of the largest audiences in television history tuned in to an extraordinary sight: a live telecast of the moon's surface as seen from Apollo 8, the first manned space flight to leave Earth's gravitational pull and orbit the moon. The historic journey captivated people around the world. As this documentary reveals, however, the mission's success was far from assured. The Apollo 8 astronauts had just four months to prepare for the risky lunar orbit, and catastrophic failure would have brought a halt to America's goal of putting a man on the moon before the end of the decade. This film recounts the flight many consider to be NASA's most daring and important. Interviews with Apollo 8 astronauts, their wives, mission control staff and journalists take viewers inside the high-stakes space race of the late 1960s to reveal how a bold decision by NASA administrators put a struggling Apollo program back on track and allowed America to reach the moon before the Soviets.
With only the Rhine lying between the Allies and Hitler, each of the Allied armies undertakes to cross the river in its own way. Soldiers tell the amazing story of capturing the Ludendorff Bridge in the town of Remagen. Once across the Rhine, the Allies meet the Russian troops at Elbe and the war reaches its endgame with the Russian siege of Berlin. Part 6 of 6.
How Canadian George Beurling broke every rule in the book yet became one of the greatest fighter pilots of World War II. Part 1 of 6.
Winter 1944 to 1945. The Allies are unprepared for Hitler's counterattack in the Ardennes Forest of Belgium and Luxembourg. It is the biggest battle of the war on the Western Front, fought during the coldest winter in memory. By the time the Battle of the Bulge is over, Hitler's enormous gamble has ended in disaster and the Russians are approaching Berlin. Meanwhile, in the Santo Tomas Camp in the Philippines, thousands of internees await liberation. A series by Ken Burns. Part 11 of 14.
A look at the amateur films of events during WWII made by two Germans and two Britons. Part 1 of 3.
Using bold but controversial tactics, Douglas Bader beats all the odds to help turn the tide in the Battle of Britain and become Britain's most celebrated air ace. Part 2 of 6.
Winter to Spring 1945. On the island of Iwo Jima, the marines face 21,000 Japanese defenders who, without hope of reinforcement, have been ordered to kill as many Americans as possible before being killed themselves. Once the island is taken, Allied bombers set the cities of Japan ablaze, killing thousands and leaving millions homeless. In Europe, Americans are crossing the Rhine and driving into Germany, while the Russians are within 50 miles of Berlin. A series by Ken Burns. Part 12 of 14.
