War
Station:
Channel 4 (GB)
Status:
Ended
Start:
2001-06-14
Rating:
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Hell in the Pacific is a compelling and provocative four part series accounting the shocking Second World War conflict in the East.
TV Show Ended.
S1E2 - Purgatory
After Pearl Harbor was attacked, Japanese forces swept across the Pacific. Thousands of Americans and Filipinos died on the Bataan Death March and prisoners were forced to labour.
Air Date: 21 Jun 2001 06:00 (CDT)
S1E3 - Armageddon
How propaganda fuelled hatred. In cinemas, the Allies showed films Japanese survivors being machine-gunned in lifeboats. The Japanese scoured prison camps to find prisoners fit enough to act in films.
Air Date: 28 Jun 2001 06:00 (CDT)
S1E4 - Apocalypse
As the Allies neared Japan, the fighting got more savage. Tiny islands like Iwo Jima were carpeted with corpses. The Americans slaughtered wounded Japanese. Both sides looted and mutilated the dead.
Air Date: 05 Jul 2001 06:00 (CDT)