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Season 1

  • S01E01 Men

    • January 20, 2010
    • BBC One

    How WW2 was documented by home movie makers. A look at the films of four fighting men - Britons Derek Brown and Leslie Fowler and Germans Paul Kellermann and Klaus Eismann.

  • S01E02 Children

    • January 27, 2010
    • BBC One

    This programme is about the experience of children during the war, seen through the films of them shot by parents, friends and teachers. The films, and the recollections of the children in them, capture the initial novelty of war, but also the later reality of death and loss.

  • S01E03 Women

    • February 3, 2010
    • BBC One

    Women who were drawn into the war were workers, mothers and combatants for the first time in history and those experiences were filmed, sometimes by women themselves.