Mike Ibeji
Director
World War II In Numbers (2019)
Season 1
Documentary using recorded figures and statistics to outline the full extent of the conflict, explaining the horrors of war and how it ever came to take place.
Released Aug. 10, 2019
Episode 42 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: imdb.massacre, imdb.mass-killing, imdb.technocracy, imdb.bureaucracy, tmdb.world-war-ii, imdb.1940s, imdb.20th-century
Network: Histoire TV
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English,
French
S1E1 - The War Of The World
Documentary using recorded figures and statistics to outline the full extent of the conflict, explaining the horrors of war and how it ever came to take place.
Aug. 10, 2019, midnight
S1E2 - Lightning War
Continuing on with Germany invaded Poland in August 1939, no-one was ready for war.
Aug. 10, 2019, midnight
S1E3 - Backs to the Wall
A look at the Battle of Britain, examining the limited resources the British military were left with following the retreat from Dunkirk, and the pressure on German forces to conquer England quickly, so attention could be switched to Russia.
Aug. 17, 2019, midnight
S1E4 - Global War
The second half of the programmes examines the US entry into the war, in defiance of the promise made by President Roosevelt during his re-election campaign.
Aug. 17, 2019, midnight
S1E5 - The Road to Stalingrad
A look at how Hitler calculated that to fight on long enough to fulfil his aim of eradicating Europe's Jews he needed to capture the Caucasus, and to do that he had to take Stalingrad.
Aug. 24, 2019, midnight
S1E6 - Leviathan Wakes
A look at how the US rebuilt its navy and took itself from the 18th-ranked army in the world to be second only to the Soviet Union, a tale of ingenuity and enterprise that turned the vast resources of America into the numbers that could win a war.
Aug. 24, 2019, midnight
S1E7 - The Allies Strike Back
Examining the botched raid on the German-occupied harbour of Dieppe, France in August 1942, which resulted in the loss of around 4,000 Allied men and drove home just how costly an invasion of France would be.
Aug. 31, 2019, midnight
S1E8 - Twilight of the Axis
Focusing on Hitler's order in 1945 to destroy any military or industrial facilities that could be useful to the enemy - which would have condemned the German people to utter desolation.
Aug. 31, 2019, midnight
Network: Histoire TV
Episode Runtime: 42 min.
Season Runtime: 360 min.
Released: Aug. 10, 2019
Last Air Date: Aug. 31, 2019, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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