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World War Two: Behind Closed Doors

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Documentary series using dramatic reconstructions and testimony from witnesses to reveal the 'behind closed doors' politics of the Second World War.

DocumentaryWar & Politics

2.9 / 5

10th November 2008 - 15th December 2008
Director
Andrew Williams
Writer
Laurence Rees
Producer
Laurence Rees
Top Cast
Aleksey PetrenkoBob GuntonPaul Humpoletz
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Unlikely Friends, Part 1 Still
Unlikely Friends, Part 1
10th November 2008

Episode 1

The unlikely non-aggression pact between Hitler and Stalin that existed until the Nazis betrayed the Soviet Union in June 1941, when Stalin looked to form a new alliance.

Unlikely Friends, Part 2 Still
Unlikely Friends, Part 2
17th November 2008

Episode 2

A look at the events of 1941 when, having been betrayed by Hitler, Stalin switched his allegiances to Britain and America. It was an alliance based on military pragmatism, which never altered the mutual antipathy between Churchill - who despised only Nazism above Communism - and the Soviet leader, who knew that his Red Army was ill-equipped to cope with the Nazi onslaught alone.

Cracks in the Alliance, Part 1 Still
Cracks in the Alliance, Part 1
24th November 2008

Episode 3

The relationship between Churchill and Stalin, and the secret history that clouded their first meeting in Moscow in August 1942 where they became set on a path to achieve an uncomfortable alliance.

Cracks in the Alliance, Part 2 Still
Cracks in the Alliance, Part 2
1st December 2008

Episode 4

The secret history of the Second World War by focusing on the first meeting of the "Big Three" - Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin - which took place in Tehran in 1943.

Diving the World, Part 1 Still
Diving the World, Part 1
8th December 2008

Episode 5

Features the Red Army's progress through eastern Europe in 1944, as well as uncovering the power struggles and political intrigue going on behind the scenes during the most famous Allied conference of the conflict, held at Yalta in the Crimea.

Dividing the World, Part 2 Still
Dividing the World, Part 2
15th December 2008

Episode 6

Focuses on the collapse of the Allies' marriage of convenience with Stalin in the wake of Hitler's defeat and how the Soviet dictator wanted to turn on his former comrades-in-arms.