This film tells the story of Col Rudder’s 2nd Ranger Bn and their heroic attack on the gun battery at Pointe du Hoc, which covered both Omaha and Utah beaches. Despite their thorough training scaling techniques that included sectional aluminium commando ladders, rocket grapples and ropes experienced commanders predicted a disaster. In the event bad weather, navigational errors and communications failure meant that less than 200 Rangers were delivered to the foot of the cliffs late and under enemy fire. Small groups of Rangers battled their way up ropes and ladders, with grenades bursting around them, to scale the muddy unstable cliff. A handful of men spread out and cleared the stunned defenders but, as often is the case, seizing the objective was only a part of the battle. Isolated for over 24 hours, with no relief from the near disaster at Omaha, the Rangers fought on against increasingly determined German counter-attacks.
Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut ...
"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film...
King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire, Jacques L...
A partly dramatised account of the lives of four Allied servicemen ahead of D-Day, the programme tol...
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the...
A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the surviv...
Bob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes su...
A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans...
June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know ...
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...
Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day c...
May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Speci...
France, June 1944. On the eve of D-Day, some American paratroopers fall behind enemy lines after the...
Captain Muller struggles to survive fighting overwhelming Russian forces. Wounded, he is sent to Nor...
One famous day. Five heroes. Five key turning points that changed the course of World War II during ...
The story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of D...
Funding ceased due to Brexit pullout by backers. In the early hours of the 6th of June 1944 Allied ...
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this special presents the key events of the Allied inv...
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...
In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German ar...