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Wales - Great Britain's Wild West

Rugged mountains in the North, gentle and hilly landscapes in the South and craggy cliffs along the coastline – a region of contrasts. Nature filmmaker Hans-Peter Kuttler spent two years photographing the Welsh countryside and now presents the fascinating nature of Great Britain’s Wild West from completely new perspectives.

Desert War: Alamein

A brilliant Axis intelligence coup helps Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps sweep forward to threaten Cairo and the Suez Canal. At a tiny railway halt called El Alamein, the Allied Eighth Army draws a line in the sand and fights a battle that will transfix the world and transform the Second World War. Part 2 of 2.

Dunkirk: Evacuation

The Army has now made its way back to the coast, but there are far too many men to evacuate in the time that is left before the Germans are expected to take Dunkirk. More boats are needed so the Admiralty begins to requisition a fleet of small craft including cockle fishing boats from Leigh-on-Sea. The crew of The Renown decide they will sail their boat themselves. Meanwhile fleets of naval ships are continuing to lift as many men as they can from the beaches and the pier. The French, who until now have been kept in the dark about plans for a full scale British evacuation, learn that their allies are leaving them. In order to allow the Anglo-French alliance to continue, Churchill orders that French troops be lifted 50/50 with the English, doubling the number of men to be evacuated in a single stroke. The Leigh boys, who set out knowing little of what to expect, find themselves sailing into a scene of desperation and mayhem, but in spite of the dangers they begin to lift men off the beaches. When the tide makes their work there impossible, they too begin to lift men off the pier. As the strain on the little boat begins to tell the engine fails. Under tow on their way home they hit a mine and are killed. They are among the first civilian casualties of the war. Their community mourns, realising the cost of the successful evacuation, and the country is left to face the threat of invasion. Part 2 of 3.

Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor

NOVA: A dive beneath the waters of Pearl Harbor could reveal new clues regarding the sinking of the USS Arizona in 1941. For decades, it has been thought that the Arizona was sunk by Japanese aircraft, but the discovery of a Japanese 'midget sub' near the scene of the battle raises questions about the Arizona's final hours. The submarine matches four other experimental vessels discovered in shallower water closer to the harbour entrance, and it is the only one that seems to have fired its torpedoes.

Wales - Great Britain's Wild West

Rugged mountains in the North, gentle and hilly landscapes in the South and craggy cliffs along the coastline – a region of contrasts. Nature filmmaker Hans-Peter Kuttler spent two years photographing the Welsh countryside and now presents the fascinating nature of Great Britain’s Wild West from completely new perspectives.

Desert War: Alamein

A brilliant Axis intelligence coup helps Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps sweep forward to threaten Cairo and the Suez Canal. At a tiny railway halt called El Alamein, the Allied Eighth Army draws a line in the sand and fights a battle that will transfix the world and transform the Second World War. Part 2 of 2.

Dunkirk: Evacuation

The Army has now made its way back to the coast, but there are far too many men to evacuate in the time that is left before the Germans are expected to take Dunkirk. More boats are needed so the Admiralty begins to requisition a fleet of small craft including cockle fishing boats from Leigh-on-Sea. The crew of The Renown decide they will sail their boat themselves. Meanwhile fleets of naval ships are continuing to lift as many men as they can from the beaches and the pier. The French, who until now have been kept in the dark about plans for a full scale British evacuation, learn that their allies are leaving them. In order to allow the Anglo-French alliance to continue, Churchill orders that French troops be lifted 50/50 with the English, doubling the number of men to be evacuated in a single stroke. The Leigh boys, who set out knowing little of what to expect, find themselves sailing into a scene of desperation and mayhem, but in spite of the dangers they begin to lift men off the beaches. When the tide makes their work there impossible, they too begin to lift men off the pier. As the strain on the little boat begins to tell the engine fails. Under tow on their way home they hit a mine and are killed. They are among the first civilian casualties of the war. Their community mourns, realising the cost of the successful evacuation, and the country is left to face the threat of invasion. Part 2 of 3.

Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor

NOVA: A dive beneath the waters of Pearl Harbor could reveal new clues regarding the sinking of the USS Arizona in 1941. For decades, it has been thought that the Arizona was sunk by Japanese aircraft, but the discovery of a Japanese 'midget sub' near the scene of the battle raises questions about the Arizona's final hours. The submarine matches four other experimental vessels discovered in shallower water closer to the harbour entrance, and it is the only one that seems to have fired its torpedoes.

Beautiful Serengeti: The Hunt

Focusing on hunters and hunting, the brutal ending of a life, an act which sustains another’s. The hunt is by far the most dramatic event on the plains of the Serengeti. Part 3 of 12.

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