VISIONS OF WAR
5 x 50'
OPERATION BARBAROSSA
The story of the background and build up to the 1941
head-on clash of two of the mightiest armies Man has ever known. Notable contributions from key participants such as Albert Speer tell the story behind Hitler's opening attack on
Russia and the battle that followed with the loss of at least 20 million lives.
BATTLE FOR THE BULGE
The story of the last German offensive of the Second World
War, the biggest single pitched battle of the Western front with more than a million troops taking part. Includes previously unseen German film of the campaign.
BATTLE FOR CASSINO
Described as ‘brilliant and intensely moving’ by the London
Times on UK transmission, this film tells the story of one of the most tragic and gruelling battles of WWII, a battle fought under the hypnotic glare of the Benedictine monastery on the summit of Monte-Cassino.
BATTLE FOR WARSAW
The tragic story of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising in which nearly a quarter of a million Poles lost their lives is told with unique archive footage and remarkable eye-witness accounts from
principal survivors.
BATTLE FOR DIEN BIEN PHU
A battle that ranks as one of the most decisive and seminal battles of recent times, the
outcome of which led directly to American involvement in Vietnam. The story is told from he French colonisation of Indo-China in the last century through to the climactic Vietnamese siege of early 1954.
Producer: Peter Batty Productions.
Availability: Worldwide, all media. (on request).
THE ALGERIAN WAR
5 x 52'
The first truly objective history of the Algerian War, an eight year conflict that caused the fall of
six French Prime Ministers and the collapse of the 4th Republic.
It brought de Gaulle to power, but also almost saw his demise and twice brought civil strife to
mainland France. This was perhaps the last and most significant of the old style colonial wars.
Producer: Peter Batty Productions.
Availability: Worldwide, all media (on request).