World War Two: Behind Closed Doors

Season 12008

Documentary series using dramatic reconstructions and testimony from witnesses to reveal the 'behind closed doors' politics of the Second World War.

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6 Episodes

E01 Unlikely Friends, Part 1

The unlikely non-aggression pact between Hitler and Stalin that existed until the Nazis betrayed the Soviet Union in June 1941, when Stalin looked to form a new alliance.

November 10, 2008

E02 Unlikely Friends, Part 2

A look at the events of 1941 when, having been betrayed by Hitler, Stalin switched his allegiances to Britain and America. It was an alliance based on military pragmatism, which never altered the mutual antipathy between Churchill - who despised only Nazism above Communism - and the Soviet leader, who knew that his Red Army was ill-equipped to cope with the Nazi onslaught alone.

November 17, 2008

E03 Cracks in the Alliance, Part 1

The relationship between Churchill and Stalin, and the secret history that clouded their first meeting in Moscow in August 1942 where they became set on a path to achieve an uncomfortable alliance.

November 24, 2008

E04 Cracks in the Alliance, Part 2

The secret history of the Second World War by focusing on the first meeting of the "Big Three" - Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin - which took place in Tehran in 1943.

December 1, 2008

E05 Diving the World, Part 1

Features the Red Army's progress through eastern Europe in 1944, as well as uncovering the power struggles and political intrigue going on behind the scenes during the most famous Allied conference of the conflict, held at Yalta in the Crimea.

December 8, 2008

E06 Dividing the World, Part 2

Focuses on the collapse of the Allies' marriage of convenience with Stalin in the wake of Hitler's defeat and how the Soviet dictator wanted to turn on his former comrades-in-arms.

December 15, 2008

World War Two: Behind Closed Doors

E01 Unlikely Friends, Part 1

E02 Unlikely Friends, Part 2

E03 Cracks in the Alliance, Part 1

E04 Cracks in the Alliance, Part 2

E05 Diving the World, Part 1

E06 Dividing the World, Part 2

Patton 360°

Dog and Beth: On the Hunt

K. Street Pali Hill

Kirstie

Yalaza

History Detective

Epithet Erased

Karkat Rogue

Rei Rei - Missionary of Love

36 Hours

Mai dire grande fratello

The Roman Holidays

Masked Dancing King

Flash Forward

Follow My Dear General

Mzungu:Operación Congo

Love Is a Many Splendored Thing

Brother's Keeper II

Code-E

E01 Unlikely Friends, Part 1

E02 Unlikely Friends, Part 2

E03 Cracks in the Alliance, Part 1

E04 Cracks in the Alliance, Part 2

E05 Diving the World, Part 1

E06 Dividing the World, Part 2