History | War
Station:
BBC Four (GB)
Status:
Ended
Start:
2019-09-05
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The story of what it felt like to live in Britain during World War II, told through the eyewitness accounts and cine films of ordinary people.
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S1E1 - Episode 1
In the first episode, the progress of the first half of the war is told through a series of films that include fascinating footage of the Home Guard in training in the village of Thornton in Yorkshire, moving images and accounts of the devastation of Sheffield during the Blitz, and the astonishing moment a doctor in Kent turned his camera skywards to film the Battle of Britain from his garden.
Air Date: 05 Sep 2019 15:00 (CDT)
S1E2 - Episode 2
This second episode includes the British breakthrough at El Alamein, revealed by a sergeant who filmed the guns pounding the German positions, and the most complete film of a Bomber Command squadron in action, made by a serviceman stationed at a Lincolnshire base.
Air Date: 12 Sep 2019 15:00 (CDT)