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Greatest Events of WWII in Colour

★ 8.6 14K votes 2019–2019 1 season · 10 episodes Ended Discovery
War & militaryArmed conflict and the soldier's experience.This show: 10/10Real historyReal historical events and figures woven into the story.This show: 10/10DocuseriesNonfiction storytelling across episodes.This show: 9/10
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Starring
Derek Jacobi
Starring
Derek Jacobi
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"History rendered suddenly, unsettlingly vivid"

This documentary series takes iconic World War II battles and turning points and restores the archival footage in full color, pairing it with historian interviews and modern narration. Each episode zeroes in on one pivotal moment, from major offensives to home-front turning points, walking through what happened and why it mattered. The pace is brisk and episodic, built for accessibility rather than deep scholarship. What carries it is the visual jolt of seeing familiar black and white history suddenly look immediate and real, making seven-decade-old events feel startlingly present.

Watch it for

the colorization, which makes decades-old combat footage feel immediate and disturbingly present.

Maybe skip if

you want deep strategic analysis rather than punchy, standalone highlight-style episodes.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12019
8.36K108h 20m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Blitzkrieg8.3
78650 min
▶2Battle of Britain8.3
68350 min
▶3Pearl Harbor8.6
66950 min
▶4Battle of Midway8.3
62250 min
▶5Siege of Stalingrad8.6
64950 min
▶6D-Day8.3
56550 min
▶7Battle of the Bulge8.0
52650 min
▶8Dresden Firestorm8.1
53950 min
▶9Liberation of Buchenwald8.4
53150 min
▶10Hiroshima8.5
48650 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Derek Jacobi Narrator
Geoffrey Wawro Self - Professor of Military History, University of North Texas
James Holland Self - Author, The War in the West, Self - Author, 'The War in the West'
Saul David Self - Professor of Military History, University of Buckingham
Sönke Neitzel Self - Professor of War Studies, University of Potsdam
Phillips O'Brien Self - Professor of Strategic Studies, University of St. Andrews
Max Hastings Self - Author, Inferno: The World at War, Self - Author, All Hell Let Loose, Self - Author, Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944
Justin Bronk Self - Royal United Services Institute, London
Craig L. Symonds Self - Professor of Maritime History, U.S. Naval War College
Peter Lieb Self - Historian, Potsdam, Germany, Self - Historian, Potsdam Germany

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