World War II: The Last Heroes

Season 1
From the producers of Blitz Street comes World War II: The Last Heroes, which painstakingly chronicles the final years of the Allied campaign in the Second World War and reveals what it was really like in the trenches on Omaha Beach.
IMDb 8.520112 episodes7+
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Episodes

  1. S1 E2 - The Battle for Caen

    October 22, 2011
    49min
    7+
    Allied soldiers push on to take their first objective, the city of Caen. They're met by formidable Panzer forces determined to push the Allies back into the sea. For the next two months, a bloody battle of attrition is waged in the fields and villages of Normandy.
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  2. S1 E4 - Breakout From Normandy

    October 28, 2011
    49min
    7+
    Hitler orders a massive counter-attack in an attempt to cut the Allies in two. But British and Canadian forces press in on Germans forces from the North while American troops close in from the South - creating what is known as the Falaise Pocket. The German army attempts to flee from a gap in the pocket, but they are bombed by Typhoons and finally routed from Normandy
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Directors

Anna Thomson

Producers

Paul WoodingMichael Kot

Cast

Jeremy Llewellyn-Jones

Studio

Janson Media
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