Battlefront
The fiercest battles of WWII come to life as never seen before in this collection of one of the most powerful epics of history. This documentary series takes you behind enemy lines and to the front lines of the tumultuous campaigns of the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific theaters where the soldiers, sailors and airmen fought in the most defining time in the history of the modern world.
- 2001-2001
- 1 season
- Titan Media
- Documentary, Action & Adventure
The fiercest battles of WWII come to life as never seen before in this collection of one of the most powerful epics of history. This documentary series takes you behind enemy lines and to the front lines of the tumultuous campaigns of the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific theaters where the soldiers, sailors and airmen fought in the most defining time in the history of the modern world.
Season 1 Episode Guide
40 Episodes 2001
Episode 1
Dunkirk
Fri, Sep 11, 2026 23 mins
British and Allied forces are pushed back by an overwhelming German Army. 400,000 Allied troops are trapped in the French town of Dunkirk. After several failed attempts at rescue, the British Navy was able to rescue 330,000 troops.
Episode 2
Fall of Poland
Fri, Sep 11, 2026 23 mins
German tanks roll into Poland in September 1939.
Episode 3
Battle of Norway
Fri, Sep 11, 2026 23 mins
Early in the war, the Germans decide they need to guarantee access to the Norwegian port of Narvik to ensure their supplies of Swedish iron ore. The British, however, send destroyers to up-end the German plan.
Episode 4
Bombing of England
Fri, Sep 11, 2026 23 mins
Hitler has taken France and has his sights set on England. At a heavy toll, the Royal Air Force swings into action to stop Hitler from crossing the Channel.
Episode 5
Battle of Tobruk
Fri, Sep 11, 2026 23 mins
German field marshal Erwin Rommel scores a major victory at the Libyan seaport of Tobruk.
Episode 6
Operation Mercury: Fall of Crete
Tue, Sep 25, 2001 23 mins
After British forces withdrew in defeat from Greece to the island of Crete in early 1941, they were soon fighting German invasion armies again. This time, 5,000 of Hitler's elite paratroopers landed to complete their conquest in the Mediterranean.
Episode 7
Battle of Malta
Fri, Sep 11, 2026 23 mins
In 1941, Mussolini desperately wants to wrest the tiny island of Malta from the British for control of the Mediterranean. When his inadequate air force fails to bomb the Maltese into submission, Hitler's Luftwaffe joins the campaign.
Episode 8
Fall of Singapore
Fri, Sep 11, 2026 23 mins
Before the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese initiate the Pacific War by firing on the British in Malaya. Their route to the rubber-rich nation takes them into Singapore, the World's most armed fortress.
Episode 9
Pearl Harbor
Fri, Sep 11, 2026 23 mins
During a two-hour surprise attack on the American Pacific fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor, Japanese navy pilots score a near-complete victory.
Episode 10
Fall of the Phillipines
Fri, Sep 11, 2026 23 mins
American and Philippine troops and Philippine scouts take on a fast advancing Japanese invasion.
Episode 11
Battle of Midway
Fri, Sep 11, 2026 23 mins
Only one isolated atoll prevents an enemy invasion of Hawaii. Midway Island is where the Japanese fleet converges on a tiny American base with a massive strafing and bombing attack.
Episode 12
Solomon Islands
Fri, Sep 11, 2026 23 mins
For the first time since Americans entered the war, Marines face Japanese infantrymen at Guadal Canal. In the jungles, two powerful armies clash in a six month battle that claims nearly 30,000 lives.
Episode 13
Battle of Dieppe
Tue, Sep 25, 2001 23 mins
The Allies launch an ill-fated attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe, France.
Episode 14
Battle of Stalingrad
Tue, Sep 25, 2001 23 mins
German forces encounter Russian resistance.
Episode 15
El Alamein
Tue, Sep 25, 2001 23 mins
Erwin Rommel battles Allied forces in North Africa in 1942.
Episode 16
North Africa
Fri, Sep 11, 2026 23 mins
In the North African desert in 1942, American fighting forces encounter the dreaded Rommel for the first time to stop the German war machine.
Episode 17
Burma: The Forgotten Front
Fri, Sep 11, 2026 23 mins
The Japanese meet resistance from British forces as they advance through Burma to take India in 1944.
Episode 18
Battle of Sicily
Tue, Sep 25, 2001 23 mins
Fresh from victory in North Africa, the Allies successfully invade the island of Sicily, staging an eventual Italian withdrawal from the war.
Episode 19
Bombing of Ploesti
Tue, Sep 25, 2001 23 mins
After British forces withdrew in defeat from Greece to the island of Crete in early 1941, they were soon fighting German invasion armies again. This time, 5,000 of Hitler's elite paratroopers landed to complete their conquest in the Mediterranean.
Episode 20
Monte Cassino
Fri, Sep 11, 2026 23 mins
Allied troops are advancing through Italy and meet a stiff German defensive position in an old monastery Monte Cassino.
Episode 21
Gilbert Islands
Fri, Sep 11, 2026 23 mins
Bloody fighting erupts on a group of tiny Pacific islands in November 1943.
Episode 22
Battle of Anzio
Tue, Sep 25, 2001 23 mins
Allied armies encounter German resistance in the Italian fishing town of Anzio.
Episode 23
Kwajalein
Tue, Sep 25, 2001 23 mins
Examining the battle at the Kwajelein Atoll in the South Pacific during 1944. Included: operations by the Seabees.
Episode 23
Kwajalein
Tue, Sep 25, 2001 23 mins
Examining the battle at the Kwajelein Atoll in the South Pacific during 1944. Included: operations by the Seabees.
Episode 24
Battle of Palau
Fri, Sep 11, 2026 23 mins
American forces overtake Japanese troops on the islands of Palau on the way to the Philippines.
Episode 25
D-Day
Fri, Sep 11, 2026 23 mins
D-Day, the 6th of June--one of the most pivotal moments in world history. In a massive armada of thousands of ships, 3,000,000 allied troops land at Three Beaches in Normandy, France.
Episode 26
Retaking France
Fri, Sep 11, 2026 23 mins
Six weeks after the D-Day invasion of the Beaches of Normandy, the allied forces are pushing the Germans back through the French countryside. Town by town is won back as Panzer divisions retreat back to the Meuse River.
Episode 27
Operation Dragoon
Fri, Sep 11, 2026 23 mins
Allied Forces continue across France pushing the German troops back into Germany.
Episode 28
Liberation of Paris
Tue, Sep 25, 2001 23 mins
Both political and military expediency were factors in the return of the French capital to its people.
Episode 29
Arnhem
Tue, Sep 25, 2001 23 mins
The Allies launch an attack designed to push the Germans back to the Rhine River.
Episode 30
Liberation of the Philippines
Tue, Sep 25, 2001 23 mins
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's return to the Philippines, and the final push to retake the islands after two years of Japanese occupation.
Episode 31
The Last Stronghold
Fri, Sep 11, 2026 23 mins
American B-29 high-altitude bomber attacks Japan near the end of World War II.
Episode 32
Mount Belvedere
Tue, Sep 25, 2001 23 mins
The Battle of the Gothic Line in 1944.
Episode 33
Battle of the Bulge
Fri, Sep 11, 2026 23 mins
The December 1944 battle pitting American forces against German Panzer divisions in the Ardennes Forest.
Episode 34
Mount Hot Rocks
Fri, Sep 11, 2026 23 mins
American forces landing on the shores of Iwo Jima encounter Japanese combatants willing to fight to the death.
Episode 35
Battle of Remagen
Tue, Sep 25, 2001 23 mins
German forces retreat across the Rhine on the Remagen bridge near the close of the war.
Episode 36
Battle of Okinawa
Tue, Sep 25, 2001 23 mins
Kamikaze pilots guard the island of Okinawa from American forces.
Episode 37
Fall of Berlin
Tue, Sep 25, 2001 23 mins
In 1945, Soviet and American troops press Hitler's armies from the west and the east, culminating in the fall of Berlin.
Episode 38
Commerce Raiders
Tue, Sep 25, 2001 23 mins
Heavily armed vessels disguised as ordinary cargo ships patrolled allied waters, sinking supply boats and stealing their content.
Episode 39
Bombing of Germany
Tue, Sep 25, 2001 23 mins
The development of the B-17 bomber, which allowed American planes to reach inside Germany and bomb its cities.
Episode 40
U-boat War
Tue, Sep 25, 2001 23 mins
U-boats posed the deadliest threat to Allied convoys traveling the Atlantic.
