Episode guide
Apocalypse: The Second World War: Miniseries
6 episodes · premiered Sep 8, 2009
A six-part French documentary about the Second World War composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers, resistance fighters and private citizens. The series is shown in color, with the black and white footage being fully colorized, save for some original color footage. The only exception to the treatment are most Holocaust scenes, which are presented in the original black and white.
- Episode 1: Aggression (1933–1939) Sep 8, 2009 · 53m Colourised footage of Hitler as he visits the Austrian village where he grew up, see the heart-felt good-byes as French soldiers leave loved ones at Gare de l’Est train station in Paris…
- Episode 2: Crushing Defeat (1939–1940) Sep 8, 2009 · 53m The British troops hastily evacuate from the beaches at Dunkirk, France, but are forced to abandon kilometres of precious military vehicles and equipment. Heart-rending footage captures…
- Episode 3: Shock (1940–1941) Sep 15, 2009 · 50m Polish prisoners and Jews are forced into slave labour to complete Nazi building projects. The Italian army is in disarray so Hitler dispatches one of his best generals to Libya. The…
- Episode 4: World Ablaze (1941-1942) Sep 15, 2009 · 53m America joins the war as the conflict rages in South-East Asia, North Africa and Russia. The Allied forces are unable to slow the furious progress of the Japanese army through South-East…
- Episode 5: The Noose (1942-1943) Sep 22, 2009 · 52m The turning of the war against Germany, with Allied victory at El Alamein and Russian triumph at Stalingrad. In the North Atlantic, the Allies make progress in reducing the threat from…
- Episode 6: Inferno (1944-1945) Sep 22, 2009 · 58m Witness the D-Day landings and the liberation of Paris. In the east the Soviets liberate Auschwitz and fight their way to the heart of Berlin. Germany finally surrenders and Japan fights…