World War II with Tom Hanks

Episodes

Season 1 · 20 episodes

• E1 The Beginning
  Mon, May 25 43 min

  In September 1939, Germany invades Poland, setting the stage for the most destructive war in history.

• E2 Blitz
  Mon, May 25 43 min

  After toppling the Netherlands and Belgium, Nazi Germany pushes further west. The Allies scramble to support France as Churchill is forced to defend Britain from the skies and FDR rushes to mobilize wartime production.

• E3 Barbarossa
  Mon, May 25 43 min

  The story of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler’s massive surprise invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the largest and costliest land offensive in human history.

• E4 Pearl Harbor
  Mon, Jun 1 43 min

  Japan escalates their war in China, drawing increasing US sanctions and widespread outrage. Driven by resource shortages and military ideology, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in a move that will reshape the course of World War II.

• E5 The War at Sea
  Mon, Jun 1 43 min

  The story of how America’s battle to control the seas against the terrifying German U-boats in the Atlantic and Japan’s fearsome Navy in the Pacific ultimately turns the tide of the war.

• E6 Guadalcanal
  Mon, Jun 8 43 min

  After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces sweep across Southeast Asia. On Guadalcanal, United States Marines are given the bloody task of stopping their relentless advance.

• E7 Darkness Falls
  Mon, Jun 8 43 min

  As Hitler’s reach extends beyond Germany and darkness descends on Europe, his hateful rhetoric leads to anti-Jewish persecution and ultimately, genocide.

• E8 Operation Torch
  Mon, Jun 15 43 min

  In Operation Torch, thousands of inexperienced U.S. troops face off against the hardened German Afrika Korps and the infamous Field Marshall Erwin Rommel.

• E9 Secrets and Lies
  Mon, Jun 15 43 min

  Behind the fierce frontline clashes of WWII, a hidden battle rages — one of espionage, deception, and codebreaking. In rural England, a group of brilliant academics work to crack Germany’s “unbreakable” Enigma Code and change the course of the war.

• E10 Stalingrad
  Mon, Jun 22 43 min

  Operation Blue: the German Army fights to take Soviet oil fields and the city of Stalingrad, becoming one of the deadliest battles ever fought and a major turning point on the Eastern Front.

• E11 Italy
  Mon, Jun 29 41 min

  The Allies hope to quickly penetrate the Nazi Reich via Italy but instead endure a months-long slog with devastating results.

• E12 Battle for the Skies
  Mon, Jun 29 41 min

  Allied air forces engage in a ferocious and costly battle with the German Luftwaffe over the skies of Europe.

• E13 Overlord
  Mon, Jul 6 41 min

  The Allies undertake Operation Overlord, one of the most complicated and massive military invasions in history, to liberate Occupied France and open up a true second front in Western Europe.

• E14 Long Road to Tokyo
  Mon, Jul 6 41 min

  The Allies and Japan clash in the jungles and plains of Asia, the "forgotten theater" of World War II, as America struggles to bring the fight to Tokyo’s door.

• E15 Home Front
  Mon, Jul 13 41 min

  As the tide begins to turn against the Axis powers, Germany and Japan deploy opposite strategies.

• E16 Resistance
  Mon, Jul 13 41 min

  Resistance to Nazi occupation and oppression is a constant throughout the war, with results both triumphant and devastating.

• E17 No Surrender
  Mon, Jul 20 41 min

  The Pacific campaign reaches a brutal and bloody fever pitch from 1944 to 1945.

• E18 Last Days of the Reich
  Mon, Jul 20 41 min

  The war in Europe reaches a climax as Allied armies advance towards Berlin, and Hitler orders his people to fight to the last man.

• E19 Endgame
  Mon, Jul 27 41 min

  The most terrible weapon ever created will change the course of the war in the Pacific.

• E20 Fall Out
  Mon, Jul 27 41 min

  The end of the second world war and the dawn of the nuclear age see its two great victors go from allies to adversaries.