World War Two: Behind Closed Doors
World War Two: Behind Closed Doors
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World War Two: Behind Closed Doors

5.7 / 10
2008
1 season
6 episodes
DocumentaryWar & Politics

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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  • Unlikely Friends, Part 1

    1.Unlikely Friends, Part 1

    10-11-200860m

    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.

  • Unlikely Friends, Part 2

    2.Unlikely Friends, Part 2

    17-11-200860m

    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 ne...

  • Cracks in the Alliance, Part 1

    3.Cracks in the Alliance, Part 1

    24-11-200860m

    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 uncomf...

  • Cracks in the Alliance, Part 2

    4.Cracks in the Alliance, Part 2

    01-12-200860m

    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.

  • Diving the World, Part 1

    5.Diving the World, Part 1

    08-12-200860m

    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...

  • Dividing the World, Part 2

    6.Dividing the World, Part 2

    15-12-200860m

    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.

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