Schedule

Secret Agent School: Camp X:

Following training, North American spies were sent around the world to take on their Axis enemies in a deadly chess game of move and counter-move. Told through the incredible stories of these real-life James Bonds, this film traces the evolution of espionage in North America, and explains how the men and women who were the world’s first modern spies were vital in helping the Allies to victory. Also revealed is the dramatic key role that Camp X played in helping to expose the threat posed by the Soviets in the earliest days of the Cold War, and the ironic fact that one of the writers of the manual was a Soviet mole. Part 2 of 2.

Desert War: Tobruk

This two-part programme offers an exciting, insightful and often surprising account of one of the most celebrated campaigns of the Second World War – the war in North Africa. Testimonies of veterans from both sides, interwoven with archival footage and dramatic recreations bring the conflict to life. As the Nazis sweep all before them in Europe, the Anglo-Australian garrison in the small town of Tobruk in North Africa inspires the world by resisting the war's most celebrated German general. Part 1 of 2.

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.

Leaders of WWII: The Early Years

We know the leaders of the Second World War - Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle and Adolf Hitler - but do we know how they fared 20 years earlier, during that previous conflict, the Great War of 1914-18? The testimonies of historians and military experts, along with reconstructions, 3D images and archive material, help tell the incredible stories of these men as they survived the hell of the First World War.

Dunkirk: The New Evidence

Join archaeologists and divers recovering remains of ships and planes lost during World War II’s epic Dunkirk operation in 1940, and discover new evidence of the ingenious technology that helped save Allied forces from defeat by the encircling Germans.

Secret Agent School: Camp X:

During the Second World War, with Hitler’s forces dominating Western Europe, the Allies knew that conventional warfare alone would not be enough to secure victory. So a joint Anglo-American plan was forged to train an army of spies in the dark arts of sabotage, subversion and guerilla warfare. To help keep the new alliance a secret, the decision was made to set up the elite school in Canada, close to Toronto. Overseen by British experts and instructors, it was known officially as Special Training School 103. But to those who trained there it went by another name - CAMP X. Part 1 of 2.

Secret Agent School: Camp X:

Following training, North American spies were sent around the world to take on their Axis enemies in a deadly chess game of move and counter-move. Told through the incredible stories of these real-life James Bonds, this film traces the evolution of espionage in North America, and explains how the men and women who were the world’s first modern spies were vital in helping the Allies to victory. Also revealed is the dramatic key role that Camp X played in helping to expose the threat posed by the Soviets in the earliest days of the Cold War, and the ironic fact that one of the writers of the manual was a Soviet mole. Part 2 of 2.

Desert War: Tobruk

This two-part programme offers an exciting, insightful and often surprising account of one of the most celebrated campaigns of the Second World War – the war in North Africa. Testimonies of veterans from both sides, interwoven with archival footage and dramatic recreations bring the conflict to life. As the Nazis sweep all before them in Europe, the Anglo-Australian garrison in the small town of Tobruk in North Africa inspires the world by resisting the war's most celebrated German general. Part 1 of 2.

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.

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