Name: Britain At War
Released: 2010-08-01T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Mike Cooper

TV Show · Documentary

Britain at War is a ten-part series that provides a powerful social and military history of Great Britain during the Second World War. Each episode is an extraordinary collection of interviews, testimonies from a unique generation that lived and survived the uncertainties and the horrors of the Second World War.

2010 · 44m

Starring Mike Cooper

EPISODE 1

Road to Dunkirk

Dunkirk, one of the most extraordinary episodes of the war in which defeat was somehow turned into a victory by a government and a media desperate for some good news. We'll hear from civilians and soldiers who lived through it all.

44m
EPISODE 2

Britain Stands Alone

The extraordinary story of how a handful of pilots � The Few � faced the might of the Luftwaffe as it attacked British airfields and installations to try and soften up Britain for a land invasion.

45m
EPISODE 3

Battle of the Atlantic

The Convoys of the North Atlantic were absolutely vital to Britain's war effort— and the Wolf Pack U-Boats sent to destroy them knew it. This is the story of the men who waged a ferocious battle above and below the waves-- one fought in freezing and mountainous oceans.

45m
EPISODE 4

Home Front

While Britain sent its soldiers, seamen and airmen to fight Hitler, there was much to do at home � everyone had to 'do their bit'. This episode provides a remarkable snapshot of life in Britain during the War.

45m
EPISODE 5

El Alamein

'Before El Alamein we never had a victory � afterwards never a defeat' Churchill himself appreciated the magnitude of the desert army's momentous victory in the sands of northern Africa in 1942. This episode tells the story through the eyes of veterans who remember life and battle in the desert.

46m
EPISODE 6

Bombing Germany

Controversial it may have been, but it was the only way for Britain and the Allies to carry the fight to Germany in the early years of the war. It turned out to be one of the mostly costly theatres in the entire conflict.

45m

Mike Cooper

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Season 1

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