War Documentary hosted by Mark Oliver, published by National Geographic in 2018 - English narration
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In the days and weeks after June 6, 1944 Allied soldiers pour into France via the beaches of Normandy, beginning the campaign for Berlin and opening the western front. Their goal was to free Europe from German occupation.
But the operation was not easy - Hitler's troops decided to put up strong resistance - at any cost. After the surprise of the D-Day landings and the initial advances, Nazi forces fall back to dig in to keep an unrelenting grip on naval bases, citadels and fortresses of occupied Europe, planning to drive the Allies back into the North Atlantic and reassert German domination.
Before the Allies stood impregnable cities and fortresses, the fight for each of these obstacles was exhausting and sometimes almost desperate. It will take eleven months of hard fighting and desperate battles to break the Nazi stranglehold to free the rest of Europe. D-Day was a battle, the Allies still need to win the War. The series "Hitler's Last Stand" tells of these bloody battles in which both sides put everything on one card. These are the stories of the hardest fights for victory, even for survival.
Produced, Directed & Written by Ian Herring and Maija Leivo ; A Parallax Film Production in association with National Geographic
2) Forest of Death
Six months after D-Day, the war in Europe reaches a stalemate. As Allied forces close in on the German border, supply lines fail to keep up and fighting conditions deteriorate as winter sets in. US Rangers must capture Hill 400, a critical peak which permits observation of enemy activity for miles around, including a secret Nazi build up preparing for the infamous Battle of the Bulge.
