Pluto TV Britain at War schedule

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To commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain Ewan and Colin McGregor take to the skies to discover how; against the odds, the RAF inflicted Hitler's first defeat of WW2.

Tells the story of 19 men and women who were there. Through a series of filmed interviews their stories have been preserved, allowing them to tell the part they played in the nation's defence in their own words creating a unique collection of accounts.

With interviews and archive footage showing the sheer amount of devastation – from the loss of life to the immense damage caused to buildings across the country - The Aftermath looks at how the Blitz changed the face of Britain's cities and lives.

In Britain during World War Two, thousands of men over the age of 18 were conscripted into the army, but among them were hundreds of underage boys, some as young as 15, who lied about their age so that they could join up.

28th January 1945: The total war, propagated by Goebbels, strikes back at the Fatherland in all its drama and reaches its climax on German soil.

March 6, 1945. Cologne is the first major city to fall to the Allies. Shortly after, US troops occupy the only surviving bridge over the Rhine in Remagen.

April 16, 1945. The Red Army begins its Berlin offensive. The generals are willing to incur heavy losses.

By 1944, as the Reich was crumbling, Hitler gave detailed orders for the destruction of Paris. He wanted the monuments and all the bridges mined and the city reduced to a 'pile of rubble'.

This first episode covers the last week of February to late March. When American troops started their final invasion of Nazi Germany in February 1945, U.S. Army cameramen were at their side.

This second episode covers the last week of March to late April. The cameramen covered many stories of victory and defeat, death and liberation. Faces of despair and joy, scenes of war and peace.

It was becoming clear in 1939 that direct U.S. involvement in World War Two was only a matter of time. Training approximately 500 to 750 pilots a year, the United States Army Air Corps was severely outmatched by the warring powers of Europe and Asia.

Hermann Goering’s Secret State Police were tasked to arrest and torture confessions and information from supposed enemies of the Reich.

This first part of the series introduces the first tanks being deployed on the battlefields in northern France during WWI and describes the devastating effect these steel monsters had on an infantry confronted with them for the very first time.

The second episode starts on the morning of the 22nd of June 1941 when the Germans launched operation Barbarossa, the code name for the invasion of the Soviet Union.

The third episode opens with Rommel’s second offensive in North Africa.

The fourth episode sees the Germans well and truly on the retreat and the Allies are able to successfully implement operation Husky: the landing on Sicily.

The Treaty of Versailles and the Weimar Republic: Explores the signing of the Treaty of Versailles and its relation to the rise of Adolf Hitler.

Supreme Commander: Explores the Berlin Olympic Games and the rise of Adolf Hitler as the Supreme Commander of the German Reich.

Conquering France: Examines the Conquest of France in 1940 by Hitler's forces.

Peak of Power: Documenting the peak of Hitler's power and his plan to invade Great Britain.

The fall of a hate-fueled and manipulative madman, and those who faithfully followed him from the invasion at Normandy, the death camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the military failure at Stalingrad, and the fall of Berlin.

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