The Big Battles of World War II

When Germany goes head-to-head with France, no other decision can be reached: Hitler must be stopped.

Germany invades France and the Low Countries and gains the upper hand against the Allied defense.

The Germans took to the air in an effort to gain control of British airspace, crush the Royal Air Force. and intimidate the country into surrender.

U-boat warfare was a major component of the war and, unfortunately, Germany had the largest submarine fleet.

The Western Desert Campaign, a primary operation in North Africa, was a continual back-and-forth struggle in an unrelenting desert wasteland.

The defeat of the German Army in the Battle for Moscow, from late 1941 through to early 1942.

The Axis Powers take the Soviets by surprise and invade, making their way to Moscow where they face a massive counter-attack.

Stalingrad was a major turning point in the war, proving to be the start of the Soviet Union's liberation and the Allies' victory over Nazi Germany.

The largest invasion by sea engaged nearly three million troops from 12 Allied nations to cross the English Channel to Normandy in occupied France.

After the Axis powers are defeated in North Africa, the Allies decide to invade Italy, where support for the war is waning.

The Allied Forces begin to systematically dismantle the Nazi war organization and along the way, they discover the Third Reich's horrific death camps.

The Soviet offensive into east Germany had two objectives: to be on a broad front and move as rapidly as possible, and to take possession of the zone.

Archival footage of the intense and destructive battle fought in Berlin, one of the final conflicts of the European theatre of World War II.

This gripping documentary highlights the heated struggle between two of the most powerful navies across incredible expanses of the Pacific Ocean.