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World War 2 From Above

  • 2021
  • Returning Series
  • Documentary · War & Politics
  • ~45m / ep
  • 1 season

In this six-part series, battlefield historians and military experts utilise cutting edge, drone mounted technology to re-examine some of the second world war’s most iconic sites. Aerial footage of different theatres and battle scenes from World War Two.

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  1. E1. Battle For The Bulge

    Feb 8, 2021 · 45m

    A drone team at the location of the Battle of the Bulge hunts for the long-lost encampment of an African American troop.

  2. E2. Fight For Italy

    Feb 15, 2021 · 45m

    It is 1943, and the Allies launch a campaign to liberate Italy from the occupying Nazi forces; Military experts use the latest drone imaging technology to understand how the Nazis used the Italian landscape

  3. E3. The Siege Of Malta

    Feb 22, 2021 · 45m

    Between 1940 and 1942, the Axis powers unleash over 3,000 bombing raids on Malta, an island key to controlling the southern coast of the Mediterranean; Conflict archeologists use cutting-edge drone

  4. E4. D-Day

    Mar 1, 2021 · 45m

    Using drone radar, experts uncover a WWII German trench system revealing a daring allied paratrooper raid to capture it. Also, underwater drone pilots try to identify a lost US vessel.

  5. E5. Battle for the Skies

    Mar 8, 2021 · 45m

    For the first time, the theatre of war takes place mainly in the air. From the invention of radar to Hitler's Wonder Weapons, all means are good to bring the enemy down.

  6. E6. Nazi War Machine

    Mar 15, 2021 · 45m

    Using cutting edge drone technology, experts revisit some of the key sites across the former Third Reich to understand how the Nazi war machine operated.