Panther: The Panzer V

This is a comprehensive documentary about the German Panzer V Panther Tank (Panzerkampfwagen V Panther).
Serving Germany from mid-1943 to the end of World War II in 1945, the Panzer V "Panther" tanks were intended as a counter to the T-34, and to replace the Panzer IV and III, although they served along side them and other heavy tanks until the end of the war. The Panther’s excellent combination of firepower, mobility, and protection served as a benchmark for other nations’ late war and immediate post-war tank designs and it is frequently regarded (along with the Soviet T-34 Tank) as the best tank design of World War II
The documentary runs about an hour, with good quality footages and combat scenes. The audio narration is information-intensive, providing details about its development, production, units and main battles.

The RAF it war 1939-1941

Battlefield - Campaign in the Balkans

Although the crucial Russian campaign in the Balkans states is perhaps one of the war's lesser known stories, it is a saga packed with drama. In August 1943 the Romanians - no doubt prompted by merciless Allied bombing - overthrew their leader Antonescu and changed sides. Thereafter, events moved swiftly - the Russians soon captured the vital Ploesti oilfields, a huge loss to the German war effort, and within days the Soviets had taken Bucharest itself. A nervous Bulgaria sued for peace with the Allies, but the Russians pushed on into Sofia.

Despite the German delaying tactics, Hungary fell next, although there were reinforcements from Axis troops stationed in Greece and Yugoslavia. In Yugoslavia itself the Germans held on grimly to Belgrade until October. The bloody fighting over, the Balkans were carved up and left to Soviet control in the immediate post war era, and the area remains a volatile political and ethnic mix to this very day.

The Boer War

THE STORY OF BRITAIN'S LAST GREAT IMPERIAL WAR
When Britain went to war against the Boers in October 1899, the British public expected the fighting to be over by Christmas. As it turned out, The Boer War, in Kipling's famous phrase, gave the British "no end of a lesson". Using accounts of the soldiers who fought in this bitter and bloody clash-of-arms and remarkable contemporary photographs, the programme tells the story of Britain's last great Imperial war.

The German War Files - Guns Of The Wehrmacht - 1933-1945

The effectiveness of its artillery arm was one of the dominating features of the German Army on the battlefields of the Western Front in the First World War. Indeed, a specific requirement of the Treaty of Versailles was that the new Reichswehr be denied heavy artillery.

The expertise and technology that had made the artillery arm so effective in that conflict were never lost. So that when re-armament began in Germany 1933, following the Nazi accession to power, the ground was already laid for the rapid expansion of artillery of all types for the new Wehrmacht. While never acquiring the glamour of the Panzer arm, the guns of the Wehrmacht were nevertheless instrumental in serving the German Armed Forces in victory and defeat through to 1945.

Tanks! Sturmgeschutze & Panzerjeager

The Assault Guns and Tank Hunters of the Panzer Divisions played a vital role in the German Army of World War II. This exciting new survey of the Panzer Forces of World War II was made with the help of the Bovington Tank Museum, the Muckleburgh Collection and the US Army Ordnance Museum in Maryland.

WarShip - A History Of War At Sea

WARSHIP is the story of that leap in the dark that made steel float, engines fly and ships sail under the waves. In four separate programmes, this landmark series tells the story of the Warship from the perspective of today's navies, the most sophisticated and most lethal weapons delivery systems and the technological advances that made it all possible. WARSHIPS puts invention before warfare and people above everything in its portrayal of the most dramatic metamorphis of the modern age.

Episode 1 - Sea Power
Episode 2 - Submarines
Episode 3 - Big Guns
Episode 4 - Aircraft Carriers

D-Day Assault On Fortress Europe

Early in the morning of 6th June 1944, a vast and bizarre armada ploughed steadily against stiff head-winds through the rough waters of the English Channel, heading for the Normandy coast. Amongst the 5,000 vessels were many of the best British and American warships, of stupendous collective firepower, also ancient battleships and tankers on their last voyage, destined to be sunk to provide breakwaters. Thousands of the craft had been built to make one journey only and that a short one; to ferry the invading allied forces tougher with their immense diversity of equipment on the last difficult, dangerous stretch from the transports to the shore of enemy-occupied France.

It was D-Day. Concieved almost on the shores of Dunkirk, four years planning, two in the organising and one day in the execution, the landing in Normandy was easily the largest and most extraordinary combined military operation ever attempted. It was also a crucial one. By 1944 it was becoming clear that Germany would lose the war in Europe, who would win it was another matter. Had D-Day failed and at times it came close to it, the western allies would have found it impossible to launch another operation for at least a year, perhaps more and today's map of Europe might have been very different.

One of the millions taking part in the landings, Admiral Ramsey, was famous for his dislike of even the mildest exaggeration, as Overlord got under way, he told his officers "Gentlemen, I am sorry about all the superlatives, today they happen to be true." This is that story.

Battleship Scharnhorst

A historical documentary series tracing the history of this famous German battleship with extensive use of archive footage and exclusive interviews with former crew members.

Great Planes - Boeing B-29 Superfortress

Though mainly known as the plane that dropped the atomic bombs, the B-29 had a post war career in the “X” plane program and Korea.