Iniciándose con la invasión aliada a Normandía el 6 de junio de 1944, los miembros del segundo batallón de asalto, bajo las ordenes del capitan Miller, luchan por ganar el control de la playa. En el combate dos hermanos resultan muertos. Un poco antes, en Nueva Guinea, un tercer hermano muere también. Su madre, la señora Ryan, va a recibir tres telegramas de defunción el mismo día. El jefe del ejército estadounidense, George C. Marshall, ve la oportunidad de aliviar el sufrimiento de la señora cuando se entera de la existencia de un cuarto hermano, el soldado James Ryan, y decide enviar a 8 hombres (el capitan Miller y un grupo selecto de su batallón) a buscarlo y devolverlo a casa de su madre.
Ciudad de Varsovia, Polonia, 1 de agosto de 1944. Los ciudadanos han experimentado actos inhumanos de terror y violencia durante los cinco largos años de ocupación nazi. Mientras el ejército soviético se acerca implacablemente, los más jóvenes y valientes de entre ellos se levantan como uno y se enfrentan a la tiranía luchando calle por calle, pero el precio a pagar será alto y difícil el camino hacia la libertad…
El oficial de las Waffen-SS Otto Skorzeny (1908-75) se hizo famoso por su participación en audaces acciones militares durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En 1947 fue juzgado y encarcelado, pero escapó menos de un año después y encontró un refugio seguro en España, país gobernado con mano de hierro por el general Francisco Franco. ¿Qué hizo Skorzeny durante los muchos años que pasó allí?
Harry Harras es un valiente general de la Luftwaffe enamorado de su profesión, aunque no siente la menor simpatía por el régimen nazi que se ha hecho con el control en la Alemania de los años 30. Asqueado por las atrocidades de la guerra, Harras deserta, pero es apresado y torturado. Una vez en libertad, toma bajo su protección a una familia de fugitivos judíos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Un prisionero de guerra alemán es enviado de regreso a su país, acompañado por un oficial norteamericano, para cumplir una arriesgada misión de espionaje.
Película bélica que se centra en la relación amorosa entre un soldado alemán que ha desertado y una joven rusa de un pueblo arrasado.
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During the Battle of Sutjeska, headquarters one of the a partisan detachment, decides to enter deeper into the forest to save a few soldiers and wounded from inevitable death. Commander of the detachment, sent a group of fighters in the reconnaissance. As time goes on, the Germans are getting closer to discovering the detachment and wounded, hunger, exhaustion, forcing people to surrender, but at the time of surrender, and when the Germans discovered detachment, there is a sudden rescue from the group that was in the field reconnaissance.
In 1944 prior to D Day the allied planners realised it was vital to isolate the Normandy Battlefield from reinforcements. In particular it was essential to delay or stop the movement of 2 SS Pz Div (Das Reich) from the south of France. The initial plan called for the French Resistance to interdict the French Railway system to stop their movements. Doubts over the effectiveness of the resistance led to the deployment of 1st SAS to do the task. This programme covers both the deployment of a troop of B Sqn into the Poitiers, in what was known as OP BULBASKET, to delay the Das Reich and the movements and actions of the Das Reich as they move through the Dordogne and Vienne Regions culminating in the massacre at Oradour. Part 2 of this programme will cover the SAS actions in delaying the Das Reich.
The most implacable opponents of the British and Canadians fighting in Normandy were the largely teenage soldiers of the Hitlerjugend. From D+1 through to attacking back into the Falaise Pocket, this unique division constantly thwarted Montgomery's plans and exacted a terrible price on the Allies for every mile gained. Formed from 'volunteers' from the Hitler Youth Movement in the aftermath of Stalingrad, this division of boys, aged 17 on recruitment into the SS, came of age and were declared fully operational just before D Day. Coming from a fully militarized society they made exceptional and highly committed soldiers but with officers and non-commissioned officers from the Leibstandarte commanding them, they were to become a ruthless and brutal arm of the Nazi fighting machine that battled towards the Eastern Front. Both Hitlerjugend's alleged atrocities and their remarkable doggedness in battle made them a loathed but grudgingly respected opponent to all who fought them.
From 1940, around 25,000 Dutch people served in the Waffen-SS. In spite of their large number, they did not make much public disclosure after the war. Eight Dutch former SS men tell their story in this documentary. Never before have former SS men talked so openly about their motives, their (wrong) acts, their experiences on the (Eastern) front and their struggle with the memories of the past.
This programme follows the deployment of the main body of the SAS, the Recces on targets, the raids carried out both by the SAS and the bombing attacks they called in. As the SAS created havoc to the railway system the Germans were hunting them down. Eventually by the use of torture and information by collaborators the Germans tracked them down to their camp near Verrieres. The majority of the SAS were killed or captured. Those captured were later murdered by the Germans.. Their actions tied up large numbers of Germans in guarding the railways and imposed a severe delay on the movements of the 2nd SS Pz Div to Normandy. A few brave men had an impact on the liberation of France out of all proportion to their numbers