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Blitzkrieg

WWII Battles in Color

S1, EP1 "Blitzkrieg"

Rare archive footage charts the German Army in 1940 as it unleashes a new Blitzkrieg tactic.

WWII Battles in Color

S1, EP2 "Barbarossa"

Cameras roll as Nazi Germany launches an all-out assault on the Soviet Union.

WWII Battles in Color

S1, EP3 "El Alamein"

Footage of life and death on the battlefield of El Alamein and behind the lines in the African desert.

WWII Battles in Color

S1, EP4 "Kursk"

The story of the greatest tank battle the world has ever seen.

WWII Battles in Color

S1, EP5 "The Bulge"

Eye-witness accounts from those who fought in the US military's bloodiest battle on the European front in World War II.

WWII Battles in Color

S1, EP6 "Berlin"

Incredible footage, colourised for the first time, chronicles the final days of the Third Reich and the brutal battle for Berlin, though German defeat looked certain. Nazi soldiers persisted fighting despite the inevitability of their downfall.

Air Warriors

S6, EP7 "P-38 Lightning"

Innovative engineering allows the P-38 Lightning to fly faster and climb higher than any other WWII warplane; a twin-propeller fighter with heavy armaments packed into its nose, the P-38 becomes one of America's premiere combat planes during the war.

Air Warriors

S1, EP2 "Apache"

The AH-64 Apache, one of the most heavily fortified and well-armed helicopters ever built.

Air Disasters

S3, EP2 "Mayday Munich"

A plane with members of the Manchester United football team crashes while heading home from Yugoslavia, killing 23 aboard.

Air Disasters

S4, EP8 "Focused on Failure"

On 28 December 1978, the crew of United Airlines Flight 173 are preoccupied with a landing gear problem as the aircraft circles in a holding pattern in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon; it runs out of fuel and crashes in a sparsely populated area.

Air Crash Investigation

S24, EP7 "Pitch Battle"

Colgan Air 9446 nosedives into the waters off Cape Cod just minutes after takeoff following a four-day maintenance stop.

Air Disasters

S8, EP6 "The Death of JFK Jr."

When John F. Kennedy Jr.'s Piper Saratoga crashed in 1999, the NTSB faces big pressure to find the wreckage and the cause.

Air Disasters

S20, EP25 "Landings Gone Wrong"

Relying on instinct rather than the rule book, three flights end in tragedy when crews improvise on their final approach.

Air Disasters

S20, EP3 "Collision Course"

A passenger ferry sinks after crashing into rocks off the coast of a Greek island, killing 82; it leads to a shocking investigation.

Air Disasters

S2, EP402 "Disaster At Dutch Harbor"

While landing at a notoriously tricky Alaskan island airport, the pilots of a twin turboprop can't stop their plane.

Air Disasters

S3, EP6 "Break Up Over Texas"

Near the end of its flight, Continental Express Flight 2574 suffers wing damage and goes into a dive falling out of the sky.

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