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Wartime Farm

Three historians run a farm as it would have been during WWII, when farmers toiled to feed their nation amid shortages and hardship, in this living history docuseries.
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  1. S1 E1 - Episode 1
    September 5, 2012
    59min
    TV-14
    The team begins by reclaiming badlands to grow new crops and learns about Auxiliary Units, a resistance force trained to use guerrilla tactics against German invasion.
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  2. S1 E2 - Episode 2
    September 12, 2012
    59min
    TV-14
    The team tackle the conditions faced by British farmers in 1940, when the full impact of rationing took hold and when Britain faced Nazi bombing in the Blitz.
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  3. S1 E3 - Episode 3
    September 19, 2012
    58min
    TV-14
    To make outbuildings habitable as refugee shelters for city dwellers fleeing the Blitz, Alex and Peter resort to the age-old craft of making tiles by hand.
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  4. S1 E4 - Episode 4
    September 26, 2012
    58min
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    The team face a WWII-style government inspection to judge their productivity; as part of a mechanization trend, they grapple with a new tractor and milking machine.
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  5. S1 E5 - Episode 5
    October 3, 2012
    58min
    TV-14
    Moving forward to 1942, when Hitler’s U-boats bombarded British ships and slashed imports, the team confront shortages of wood, fuel, and animal feed. 
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  6. S1 E6 - Episode 6
    November 10, 2012
    57min
    TV-14
    Facing 1943’s dire conditions, Alex and Peter produce a hay crop from grass in the churchyard, and Ruth enlists eager children to collect herbs for medicine.
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  7. S1 E7 - Episode 7
    October 17, 2012
    58min
    TV-14
    The farmers contribute to the D-Day invasion by growing flax, which was used to make parachute webbing, fighter aircraft fuselages, tents, and ropes.
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  8. S1 E8 - Episode 8
    November 24, 2012
    58min
    TV-14
    Even as the war draws to a close, the need for homegrown food grows greater than ever and lasts far after the conflict ends. The team struggle to harvest the wheat crop.
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Starring
John SimmPeter GinnRuth Goodman
Studio
Acorn TV
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