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WWII: The World in Crisis

Season 1
From rare archival footage to unique first-hand accounts, watch the greatest generation win the deadliest war in history.
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  1. S1 E1 - Darkness Falls
    November 14, 2009
    50min
    TV-14
    As Europe falls under Nazi control, America is unprepared for war and the attack on Pearl Harbor. Charles Scheffel battles Rommel's forces in Tunisia and Jack Werner faces bitter combat in the northern Pacific.
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  2. S1 E2 - Hard Way Back
    November 14, 2009
    47min
    TV-14
    The Allies take on the daunting forces of the Axis, with victory far from certain. Charles Scheffel battles Rommel's forces in Tunisia and Jack Werner faces bitter combat in the northern Pacific.
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  3. S1 E3 - Bloody Resolve
    November 15, 2009
    44min
    TV-14
    The Marines assault Tarawa in one of the bloodiest battles yet waged. MacArthur island-hops and Italy's front lines claim a casualty.
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  4. S1 E4 - Battle Stations
    November 15, 2009
    44min
    TV-14
    The Allies lay plans for the invasion of France. Bert Stiles and the 8th Air Force attempt to clear the skies over Normandy, while the Pacific remains a quagmire. D-Day arrives.
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  5. S1 E5 - Day of Days
    November 16, 2009
    44min
    TV-14
    The Allies are bogged down in Normandy's hedgerows in the aftermath of D-Day, while on Saipan, victory turns to horror.
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  6. S1 E6 - Point of No Return
    November 16, 2009
    44min
    TV-14
    The Allies race toward Germany as American Marines battle for ground on Peleliu and across the bloody Pacific.
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  7. S1 E7 - Striking Distance
    November 17, 2009
    44min
    TV-14
    American forces storm the Philippines while Shelby Westbrook is shot down over Europe. Jack Yusen battles the dangers of the deep when his ship is sunk after a heroic duel.
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  8. S1 E8 - Glory and Guts
    November 17, 2009
    43min
    TV-14
    The Marine assault on Iwo Jima brings horror and glory. Pilot Bert Stiles engages a German fighter with disastrous consequences. Reinforcements arrive in Europe to push the Allies toward victory.
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  9. S1 E9 - Edge of the Abyss
    November 18, 2009
    43min
    TV-14
    The Battle of the Bulge pushes the Allies to the brink, and Rockie Blunt barely survives the fight. Okinawa erupts as the Japanese make their last stand. Hitler is handed a final ultimatum.
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  10. S1 E10 - End Game
    November 18, 2009
    44min
    TV-14
    With the end in sight, Okinawa is a bloody obstacle to victory. The Third Reich ends with a single gunshot. America delivers the final blow to Japan and the world celebrates the fall of the Axis.
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  11. S1 E11 - The Air War
    November 9, 2010
    1 h 27 min
    TV-PG
    The untold story of the American 8th Air Force's bloody battle to defeat the German Luftwaffe in the months leading up to D-Day.
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  12. S1 E12 - Hiroshima
    June 21, 2004
    22min
    TV-PG
    In 1942, nder extraordinary secrecy, the U.S. government brings top scientists together to work on the Manhattan Project. Three years of technological advancements explode over Hiroshima.
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  13. S1 E13 - Battle Of Stalingrad
    August 12, 2004
    22min
    TV-PG
    Hitler turns his attention to the Eastern Front. Nazi armies sweep through the Soviet Union, overtaking its citizens and troops, but Germans face a fierce resistance at Stalingrad.
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  14. S1 E14 - Battle of Britain
    December 17, 2004
    21min
    TV-PG
    After invading and occupying other countries one by one, Hitler sets his sights on Britain and orders a massive air invasion.
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  15. S1 E15 - Tarawa
    December 1, 2005
    21min
    TV-PG
    On November 20, 1943, one of the most ferocious battles in U.S. history began. Cutting-edge techniques, archive film, reenactments, and interviews with survivors tell the story of this overlooked World War II battle.
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  16. S1 E16 - D-Day in the Pacific
    April 17, 2008
    54min
    TV-PG
    While the allies storm France, American forces hit Saipan in the Marianas Island. The USS Enterprise supports one of the largest and deadliest battles of the Pacific War.
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  17. S1 E17 - Enterprise vs. Japan
    March 27, 2008
    54min
    TV-PG
    November 1942. USS Enterprise is the only battle-ready American carrier left in the Pacific, and she and her crew are all that stand in the way of the Japanese when the Imperial Navy tries to retake Guadalcanal.
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  18. S1 E17 - First to Fight: Black Tankers of WWII
    February 18, 2006
    45min
    TV-14
    Despite discrimination on the home front, the 761st Tank Battalion made history during World War II as the first all-black tank unit to see combat.
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  19. S1 E18 - Okinawa: The Final Battle
    February 1, 1996
    44min
    TV-PG
    When the Americans finally broke through the inner wing of the Japanese defenses, it was the start of the final chapter of World War II in a battle described by Winston Churchill as the most intense in military history.
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  20. S1 E19 - No Surrender: German And Japanese Kamikazes
    February 16, 2003
    1 h 30 min
    TV-PG
    The Axis forces of World War II fear defeat and begin using suicide tactics. Learn the human stories behind the kamikaze phenomenon.
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  21. S1 E20 - Guadalcanal
    July 25, 2005
    45min
    TV-PG
    On the small island of Guadalcanal, Americans and Japanese were brought face-to-face in close-quarter shootouts that became a turning point of the war. Experience battle from the perspective of soldiers from both sides.
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  22. S1 E21 - Vengeance at Midway
    March 6, 2008
    54min
    TV-PG
    During World War II, the USS Enterprise and sister aircraft carriers Yorktown and Hornet turn the tide of the war in the Pacific to defeat the Japanese navy.
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  23. S1 E22 - Battle Of The Bulge
    July 22, 2004
    22min
    TV-PG
    In a sneak attack, German forces storm Ardennes, where Allied forces are spread thin. It's up to General Eisenhower to keep the Germans from breaking through.
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  24. S1 E24 - A Distant Shore: African Americans of D-Day
    February 23, 2007
    45min
    TV-PG
    Although largely forgotten by history, nearly 2,000 African Americans were among the troops who stormed the beaches of Normandy. For the first time ever, seven of these forgotten heroes tell their stories.
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  25. S1 E26 - D-Day in HD, Part 2
    June 6, 2014
    1 h 26 min
    TV-14
    Rare footage of the Allied forces' D-Day invasion of Nazi-held Europe is rendered in high definition alongside interviews with Allied and German survivors recounting their first-hand experiences on that fateful day.
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