Greatest Events of World War II in Colour (Season 1)

Greatest Events of World War II in Colour (2019) is a British documentary series you can watch online on iFILM. Ten episodes, ten turning points, each rebuilt from archival footage that's been digitally restored and colourised frame by frame, so reels from the 1940s read almost like fresh camera work. Derek Jacobi narrates.

Every installment locks onto a single decisive moment. The German armoured push through France. The aerial duel over Britain in the summer of 1940. The winter siege that broke the Wehrmacht at Stalingrad. Japan's strike on Pearl Harbor and the U.S. counterblow at Midway. Then the Normandy landings, the opening of the death camps, and the bombs that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Historians walk through why each of these events shifted the war rather than just marking another date.

Directed by Nicky Bolster, Kasia Uscinska, Katie Boxer and Sam Taplin, the show treats colour as more than decoration. Familiar black-and-white frames suddenly feel present, and the conflict stops reading as something locked in the last century. It's built for viewers who want history with momentum, not a dry lecture. Stream Greatest Events of World War II in Colour (2019) online on iFILM.