World War Two: Behind Closed Doors

Season

2008

Poland

8

A story showing the 3 allied leader's, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin's actions and relationships behind the scenes during World War 2. It isn't as friendly as it seems. Shows how close the war was to favoring the axis if the Soviet Union joined forces with Hitler's Nazi's.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Unlikely Friends

The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939 after the Battle of Poland through the planning and start of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union (1941).

S1 • E2

Hitler's Betrayal

The relationship between the Soviet Union and Britain during the war, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and plans for a Western Front in Europe.

S1 • E3

Cracks in the Alliance

The Moscow Conference between Stalin and Churchill and two battles on the Eastern Front: Stalingrad and Kursk.

S1 • E4

The Big Three

The Teheran Conference, the first between the "Big Three," D-Day in France and the Warsaw Uprising.

S1 • E5

Dividing the World

The Battle of Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge, the Yalta Conference, the push to Berlin and the victory over Germany from the perspective of Allied nations.

S1 • E6

The Communist Threat

Operation August Storm, the end to the Pacific War, the Potsdam Conference, the fall from grace of Zhukov and Molotov, the death of Stalin, to the eventual fall of communist influence with the Berlin Wall in 1989.

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The World at War

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Cast

Aleksey Petrenko

Joseph Stalin

Bob Gunton

Franklin Roosevelt

Paul Humpoletz

Winston Churchill

Samuel West

Self - Narrator

Valeriy Zhakov

Vyacheslav Molotov

Krzysztof Dracz

Officer

Simon Thorp

Anthony Eden

Michael J. Reynolds

Gen. George C. Marshall

World War Two: Behind Closed Doors

Season

2008

Poland

8

Episode List

Unlikely Friends

Hitler's Betrayal

Cracks in the Alliance

The Big Three

Dividing the World

The Communist Threat

Similar Titles

World War II in Colour

The World Wars

The World at War

The War

37 Days

Cast

Aleksey Petrenko

Bob Gunton

Paul Humpoletz

Samuel West

Valeriy Zhakov

Krzysztof Dracz

Simon Thorp

Michael J. Reynolds

Michal Grudzinski

Tomasz Kwietko-Bebnowski

World War Two: Behind Closed Doors

Season

2008

Poland

8

Episode List

Unlikely Friends

Hitler's Betrayal

Cracks in the Alliance

The Big Three

Dividing the World

The Communist Threat

Similar Titles

World War II in Colour

The World Wars

The World at War

The War

37 Days

Cast

Aleksey Petrenko

Bob Gunton

Paul Humpoletz

Samuel West

Valeriy Zhakov

Krzysztof Dracz

Simon Thorp

Michael J. Reynolds

Michal Grudzinski

Tomasz Kwietko-Bebnowski