Smithsonian Channel In the autumn of 1944, Patton's Third Army approaches the heavily fortified region of Metz; after being turned back from Fort Driant, Patton's men target Fort Koenigsmacker a month later. 2026-06-05 In February 1945, Allied forces lead an attack out of the Netherlands and onto German soil west of the Rhine; a Canadian battalion administrator must assume command of a company and lead it into battle. 2026-06-05 When his company attempts to capture a small village, an American soldier, born in Mexico but raised in Texas, must crawl through an enemy minefield to capture two German machine gun nests holding up his unit. 2026-06-05 An American 2nd lieutenant sends his company back during an enemy counterattack during the Allied bid to clear the Colmar Pocket; he tries to hold off the German soldiers with his carbine rifle and calling in artillery but runs out of bullets. 2026-06-05 After the landing on Normandy Beach, the Battle of Carentan breaks out and an American unit launches a desperate bayonet charge. 2026-06-05 After months of fighting in Europe, U.S. troops finally enter Germany; with their sights set on the city of Aachen, the Americans must break through two rows of bunker fortifications to capture the old capital. 2026-06-05 A Japanese American regiment fights through darkened forests, heavy rains and entrenched Nazis to reach a lost U.S. battalion in the Vosges Mountains. 2026-06-05 During the Battle of the Bulge, a young U.S. scout gets trapped behind enemy lines. 2026-06-05 A United States Army cook manages to stall Himmler's attempt to recapture Strasbourg. 2026-06-05 A platoon of Canadian tank hunters engages a column of Nazi Panther tanks at nighttime. 2026-06-05 A journey down one of the wild rivers in the world, the Yukon; the unusual trip starts in an aircraft piloted by a painter and the odyssey ends with a visit to a graveyard of disintegrating rear-wheel steamers. 2026-06-05 Explores strongholds abandoned by their architects; a lost city in the Amazon jungle; a desert fortress made by humanity's most notorious empire; explores a city of identical castles; examines a Greek isle's bloody history from the air. 2026-06-05 The team must remove thousands of wrecked cars from the hull before it becomes an environmental disaster; repairing a vessel before the waters of the River Solent flood the hull. 2026-06-05 A journey down one of the wild rivers in the world, the Yukon; the unusual trip starts in an aircraft piloted by a painter and the odyssey ends with a visit to a graveyard of disintegrating rear-wheel steamers. 2026-06-05 Explores strongholds abandoned by their architects; a lost city in the Amazon jungle; a desert fortress made by humanity's most notorious empire; explores a city of identical castles; examines a Greek isle's bloody history from the air. 2026-06-05 The team must remove thousands of wrecked cars from the hull before it becomes an environmental disaster; repairing a vessel before the waters of the River Solent flood the hull. 2026-06-05 First-hand accounts, recreations and expert interviews of the battle of Dunkirk, and how soldiers were trapped on the French beach by German forces. 2026-06-05 First-hand accounts, re-creations and expert interviews of D-Day in 1944, where the Allied Forces of Britain, America, Canada and France attacked German forces on the coast of Normandy, France. 2026-06-05 The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor triggers the U.S. entering WWII; we reveal the secret stories behind the battle such as that of Dorie Miller. 2026-06-05 There are many stories behind the 1940 Battle of Britain, like pilot Bill Millington who sacrifices himself to save civilians. 2026-06-05 The tales behind the Blitz; the employment of German speaking radio controllers to confuse Luftwaffe pilots; the French spy who helped the RAF. 2026-06-05 Exploring the many battles fought out on the banks of the Rhine in 1944 and the secrets behind the lines of the battleground. 2026-06-05 First-hand accounts, recreations and expert interviews of the battle of Dunkirk, and how soldiers were trapped on the French beach by German forces. 2026-06-05 First-hand accounts, re-creations and expert interviews of D-Day in 1944, where the Allied Forces of Britain, America, Canada and France attacked German forces on the coast of Normandy, France. 2026-06-05 Germany's selection of strange bedfellows in the form of despots and dictators comes back to haunt them. 2026-06-06 Part 1/2. Exploring the events that occurred twenty-four hours before the unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan, commemorating the eightieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. 2026-06-06 Part 2/2. On the August 1945; after two U.S. nuclear attacks, Japan's emperor prepares the nation to surrender; the undercover miliary factions plot to fight on; how close did they get to changing history? 2026-06-06 Germany's selection of strange bedfellows in the form of despots and dictators comes back to haunt them. 2026-06-06 Part 1/2. Exploring the events that occurred twenty-four hours before the unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan, commemorating the eightieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. 2026-06-06 Part 2/2. On the August 1945; after two U.S. nuclear attacks, Japan's emperor prepares the nation to surrender; the undercover miliary factions plot to fight on; how close did they get to changing history? 2026-06-06 Germany's selection of strange bedfellows in the form of despots and dictators comes back to haunt them. 2026-06-06 Part 1/2. Exploring the events that occurred twenty-four hours before the unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan, commemorating the eightieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. 2026-06-06 Part 2/2. On the August 1945; after two U.S. nuclear attacks, Japan's emperor prepares the nation to surrender; the undercover miliary factions plot to fight on; how close did they get to changing history? 2026-06-06 Germany's selection of strange bedfellows in the form of despots and dictators comes back to haunt them. 2026-06-06 U.S. paratroopers that dropped into France before the D-Day landings battle Nazi defenders for a key bridge behind enemy lines. 2026-06-06 Five months after D-Day, the ground war finally arrives on German soil as British soldiers attack in the shadow of Hitler's infamous Siegfried Line. 2026-06-06 A platoon of American Buffalo Soldiers exceeds all expectations to advance on a Nazi-occupied castle in the foothills of Northern Italy. 2026-06-06 With thousands of German soldiers trapped in the Falaise Pocket, a small Canadian tank squadron tries to close off the escape route. 2026-06-06 A U.S. Parachute Infantry Regiment rushes to protect a critical bridge from a Nazi battle group during the opening days of the Battle of the Bulge. 2026-06-06 Mercury, one of the nearest planets to earth, has eluded astronomers' best efforts to learn its secrets until missions like Mariner and Messenger. 2026-06-06 Paid programming. 2026-06-06 An elite group of British paratroopers launch a midnight raid in order to capture Hitler's unusual radar equipment. 2026-06-06 American paratroopers are dropped behind German lines on D-Day in order to secure territory behind the beaches. 2026-06-06 British Commandos raid two occupied Norwegian islands to wipe out fish oil factories used to make explosives. 2026-06-06 The first invasion of the Italian Campaign of WWII: Operation Husky. 2026-06-06 Rare archive footage charts the German Army in 1940 as it unleashes a new Blitzkrieg tactic. 2026-06-06 Cameras roll as Nazi Germany launches an all-out assault on the Soviet Union. 2026-06-06 Footage of life and death on the battlefield of El Alamein and behind the lines in the African desert. 2026-06-06 The story of the greatest tank battle the world has ever seen. 2026-06-06 After the landing on Normandy Beach, the Battle of Carentan breaks out and an American unit launches a desperate bayonet charge. 2026-06-07