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Looking at the ever-present challenges presented by competing for food, mating rights or territory. The competitive spirit is shown in the hunt, the competition between predator and prey. Part 7 of 12.
In the darkest hours of WW2, thousands of young men from Burma volunteered to fight for the Allies. A handful of these men are still alive but have been long forgotten by Britain.
Invasion - In May 1941, 14,000 German paratroopers supported by nearly a thousand aircraft were dropped on the island in a unique blitzkrieg operation. Part 1 of 3.
Evacuation - Allied forces were evacuated off Crete’s south coast in a dangerous operation that cost the lives of almost 1,000 British seamen and Allied soldiers. Part 2 of 3.
Occupation - The resulting German and Italian occupation of Crete was marred by massacres on both sides; both German soldiers and Greek partisans and civilians lost their lives. Part 3 of 3.
At the end of the Second World War, hundreds of Chinese seamen who worked for the Merchant Navy during the conflict vanished from their homes in Liverpool, England. They left behind heartbroken wives and children, and many went to their graves believing they had been deserted. Decades later, the astonishing truth is finally revealed. Declassified documents prove these heroic men and their families were betrayed by the British government in an astonishing act of deception. As their descendants search for clues, could a potential relative in Singapore be the missing puzzle piece for one Liverpool family? Part 1 of 2.
In 1901, Australia passed a set of racialised laws around immigration commonly known as the White Australia Policy. It sought to severely limit the number of non-British immigrants to Australia. In the wake of the Second World War, Chinese and Malay men who had courageously defended Australia during wartime found themselves forcibly deported to Hong Kong and Singapore. Families were ripped apart, causing trauma that lasted generations. The Exiles follows the descendants who battled this discriminatory policy and reunites one Singapore family after seventy-five years apart from their Australian relatives. Part 2 of 2.
A documentary telling the story of a group of American citizens and their mass incarceration by the US government purely on the basis of race. In the compelling voices of survivors, it explores the unconstitutional suspension of the civil rights of these Japanese Americans during WWII and the long-lasting impact of the incarceration on their community.
As the greatest loss of warships in history and the last casualties of WWI, the sinking at Scapa Flow was a monumental decision with consequences for European history that still reverberate today.