The Hidden Truth of World War 2
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The Hidden Truth of World War 2

The Lost Evidence offers a new perspective on history. Produced by Flashback Television for The History Channel

2009
1 season
8 episodes
DocumentaryWar & Politics

The History Channel series The Lost Evidence recounts the moments of key battles in the European and Pacific theaters through the use of recently unearthed reconnaissance photos that were taken during the actual battle as well as in the days and weeks prior. Interviews with men on both sides of each battle offer a fresh look at the war. This series offers an unprecedented viewpoint of famous battles in Europe during WWII, using recently unearthed reconnaissance photos that were taken during the actual battles. For over 60 years these photographs have remained lost, or forgotten...until now. For the first time these original high-resolution images allow the viewer to track the battle, step by step from the air. Individual stories of courage and heroism can be placed in the exact location where they took place. Using cutting edge technology, unique archive film, re-enactments and extraordinary interviews with the men who were there

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  • Ep 1

    1.Alamein

    26-10-2009

    October 23rd 1942, in the remote North African desert, British and Allied troops face off against the feared German Afrika Korps and their Italian Allies. This battle will become a...

  • Ep 2

    2.Battle of Britain

    02-11-2009

    During the summer of 1940, the world held its breath and watched, as the British RAF and German Luftwaffe were locked in a battle to the death. The German Nazi war machine had conq...

  • Ep 3

    3.Battle of the Bulge

    09-11-2009

    December 16th 1944 - three German armies have been amassed in total secrecy with one sole aim - to send the Allies back into the sea and change the outcome of World War Two. The tr...

  • Ep 4

    4.Breakout from Normandy

    16-11-2009

    July 10th 1944, six long weeks since D-Day. Allied forces have been caught in a murderous battle trying to breakout of the invasion beachhead. The Germans have rebounded from the s...

  • Ep 5

    5.Crossing the Rhine

    23-11-2009

    On March 7th 1945, at the town of Remagen, American soldiers discover to their amazement that a bridge across the Rhine has not been demolished. Fate would deal the men of the 9th...

  • Ep 6

    6.Operation Market Garden

    30-11-2009

    September 17th 1944: over 20,000 elite troops descend from the skies into Nazi occupied Holland in a massive airborne assault planned to end the war in Europe by Christmas of 1944....

  • Ep 7

    7.Stalingrad

    07-12-2009

    Determined to destroy the Soviet Union once and for all Hitler has ordered his armies to strike south and seize the vital oilfields of the Caucasus region. But first they must capt...

  • Ep 8

    8.Liberation of Paris

    14-12-2009

    On August 19th Parisians rise up against their Nazi overlords, vowing to exact revenge for four years of brutal and bloody occupation. As the battle intensifies on the streets of t...

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