Frontlines

screenable online: 8 episodes

Frontlines presents a roll call of desperate courage: Midway, Anzio, Monte Cassino, Omaha, Hill 112, Bastogne, Iwo Jima and Berlin. Moments and locations where luck and quick thinking often proved as critical as planning and firepower. Compelling first-person testimony, unique locations, cutting-edge analysis, and vivid storytelling bring these crucial WW II front lines alive and dispel common myths. Told not only from the foxhole, bunker or cockpit, but also by those in vital support roles.

This revealing series takes us around the globe, bringing historical events to life from all angles, providing particular insights into the often crude medical treatments and long-term psychological trauma. Frontlines takes you deep into the heart of the action, to reveal the turning points in some of the war’s most decisive confrontations.

Midway: the most decisive naval-air battle in the Pacific started as a Japanese trap and ended as an American ambush. What follows is a totally unpredictable conflict, where luck, code-breaking,…

In January 1944 thousands of Allied troops converge on a mountain guarding the road to Rome - Monte Cassino. Atop the high near-vertical hillside is a fortress-like Benedictine abbey that the…

January 22nd 1944: Two divisions land at the Italian port of Anzio in one of the easiest Allied amphibious assaults of the war. But they fail to exploit their advantage, giving the German defenders…

OMAHA: a narrow stretch of mined-beach overlooked by fortified bluffs (or cliffs) creates a devastating baptism of fire - where nothing is inevitable. Failed plans, missed opportunities and raw…

Field Marshal Rommel said it must be held at any cost. Three weeks after D-Day, the Allied advance has stalled; the British are under pressure to break through the Nazi lines. The killing fields…

On the 20th December 1944 with Western Europe in the grip of the worst winter for a generation, the Germans launch a blistering mechanised attack on the barely defended Allied frontline in the…

Iwo Jima, February 1945: where a quarter of all the US Marines who died in the Second World War are killed and the Leathernecks are forced to re-think their tactics, as one in three of them becomes a…

Berlin, April 1945: the last savage chapter in the Battle for Europe. Stalin’s generals compete to avenge the Nazis assault in the East and raise the Red Flag over the Reichstag. A Panzer Army and…