World War II: Secrets from Above

Matching archive film and photography to their original locations, this series charts the most extraordinary events of WWII from a unique perspective.

1942 – the Nazis develop the world’s first cruise and ballistic missiles. Can the Allies stop Hitler before he rains down terror from above?

Stalin, seeking revenge, wages a war of annihilation against Nazi Germany. Over one million Soviet soldiers charge west to launch an attack on Berlin.

1943 – Allied commanders assemble the crème de la crème of their air forces to attempt one of the most audacious bombing missions of WWII.

December 1944 - Hitler launches an all-out assault on the Western front across Belgium and Luxembourg. In small towns, vastly outnumbered Allied platoons face off against entire German battalions in a series of David Vs Goliath attacks that pits superior Nazi weaponry against American mettle: The Battle of the Bulge.

1940 - 400,000 Allied troops are surrounded by Hitler’s army at Dunkirk. Can the Allies escape and make it back to Britain to continue the fight?