World on Fire

Overview

The story of World War II told through the intertwining fates of ordinary people from all sides of this global conflict as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives.

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  Series 1

  7 episodes · 2019

  Series 1 tells the story of the first year of the war, starting with the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and ending with the Battle of Britain.

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  Series 2

  6 episodes · 2023

  Series two takes viewers from the streets of Britain into occupied France, Nazi Germany, and to the sands of the North African desert, where British troops struggle alongside Indian Sappers and Australian Diggers to adapt to a very different kind of combat.