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Rediscovered World War II footage reveals frontline British soldiers fighting in Burma recording video messages to their loved ones back home. For the first time in 70 years, the North West Film Archive set out on a mission to track down the veterans and their families featured in the Calling Blighty messages and invited them to a special screening of the films.
Almost four decades after her father’s death, Lady Irene Hatter embarks on a journey to find out the truth behind her father's bravery, which helped save the lives of hundreds of Jews during the Second World War.
With the United States also suffering, Japan took the opportunity to increase their empire. Turning their attention to East Asia, they plotted the invasion of Manchuria. Part 6 of 8.
June 1944 to August 1944. American and British troops in Normandy are bogged down in the hedgerows, while in the Pacific, the marines fight their costliest battle to date on the island of Saipan. Back home, dreaded telegrams from the War Department begin arriving at a rate inconceivable just one year earlier. But by mid-August, the Germans are in full retreat out of France, and on 25 August, after four years of Nazi occupation, Paris is liberated. A series by Ken Burns. Part 8 of 14.
Maiya May goes to Cheyenne to visit a supercomputer. In Michigan, she observes the explosive end of a coal plant. Returning to Atlanta, Maiya and Dr Marshall Shepard discuss climate challenges and vulnerabilities in the U.S. Part 5 of 6.