Battleline

The Americans wanted to capture Iwo Jima to use as a base for airstrikes against Japan, but Japan fought fiercely to defend the island.

Retelling of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, told through the eyes of a Japanese flyer and an American sailor.

German advances through Belgium into France pinned thousands of Allied troops and, ultimately, more than 30,000 troops were evacuated from Dunkirk.

In September 1939, the Germans invaded Poland, marking the beginning of WWII. The Poles fought bravely, but they were no match for German blitzkrieg.

The Ploesti Raid was a combined bombing mission by the U.S. Air Force and the Royal Air Force against Axis oil refineries in Ploesti, Romania in 1943.

Authentic archival film footage and accounts from soldiers on both sides of the battle line combine to describe the liberation of Paris.

The Battle of El Alamein halted the advance by the Axis forces into Egypt.

The March 1945 Allied capture and crossing of the bridge at Remagen over the Rhine River in Germany was both a strategic and symbolic victory.

Archival film footage & accounts from soldiers on both sides explore Operation Shingle, an Allied landing against Axis forces in Anzio, Italy.

Operation Torch—the Allied land, sea, and air invasion of North Africa—commences in June 1942, led by General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

June 6, 1944, the Allied landing on Omaha Beach on the Normandy coast of France is the scene of the bloodiest battle of D-Day.

The islands of Midway were the focus of a brutal struggle between the Japanese Imperial Navy & the United States Pacific Fleet in the summer of 1942.

The plan was to raid the town of Dieppe, demonstrate the strength of the Allies, and take pressure off the Eastern front. But it failed tremendously.

Authentic archival film footage and accounts from soldiers on both sides of the battle line depict the Pacific battle for Tarawa.

Although U.S. & Filipino soldiers outnumbered the invading Japanese in 1942, the inexperienced troops were no match for the enemy’s superior training.

In 1940, Hitler's plan is to occupy ports along the Norwegian coastline. It is the first combined air, land, and sea operation in history.

As the Red Army advanced towards Berlin in early 1945, Germans feared retribution for what their forces had done to the people of the Soviet Union.

On Crete, the tired, ill-equipped British were helpless as German paratroopers captured key airfields & ports, putting the Mediterranean in jeopardy.

In September 1944, an ambitious two-part Allied operation was launched to secure key bridges in Holland, cross the Rhine, and advance into Germany.

Hitler greatly underestimates the Soviet people, the Red Army, and the brutal Russian winter in the failed campaign to seize the city of Stalingrad.

During the ferocious and costly battle for Okinawa in 1945, Kamikaze pilots attack American ships in a desperate attempt to halt the Allied invasion.

While Allied armies stood ready to invade Germany, Hitler launched a surprise counteroffensive, causing tens of thousands of casualties.

Authentic archival footage shows interruption to supply lines on both sides. Namely, a German Q ship conducts raids while disguised as a freighter.

For more than two years, the Japanese have occupied the Philippines, while American forces led by MacArthur plan their return to liberate the islands.

A key obstacle in the push against German forces in Italy, Monte Cassino and its hilltop abbey are targeted for destruction.

In the final Japanese offensive of the war, Japanese forces go over the Hump, headed for India, when they are stopped by Allied forces.

Strategic bombing by the Allies undoubtedly had a crippling effect on German war production, but what about the human toll?

Maintaining control of Tobruk was crucial to the Allied war effort, as Axis supply lines were shortened without the strategic Mediterranean port.

Authentic archival film footage and accounts from soldiers on both sides of the French battle line depict the invasion of Southern France in 1944.

Launched from North Africa, the Allied invasion of Sicily is key to Eisenhower’s plan to drive the Germans from Italy and liberate southern Europe.

In the aftermath of the Normandy invasion, the Allies—pinned against the sea and racing against the German response—push on to liberate Paris.

After securing the Mariana Islands, American B-29 bombers move to Japan, and Japanese anti-aircraft guns are no match for these massive new weapons.

The longest continuous military campaign in WWII, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945, had the Allied naval blockade at its core.

Control of Malta means control of the Mediterranean, so when bombs fail, German forces sink supply ships in an attempt to starve the Maltese.