Apocalypse: The Second World War (Season 1)

Apocalypse: The Second World War (2009) is a documentary series you can watch online on iFILM, built entirely from real wartime footage. Across six episodes, directors Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle reframe a conflict most viewers think they already know.

They pulled together declassified reels, amateur film, and material shot by war correspondents and resistance fighters, then colorized the black-and-white record frame by frame so the war stops feeling like distant history. The Holocaust scenes are deliberately left in their original monochrome. Hitler, Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt all pass through, but the focus stays on ordinary soldiers and civilians.

This isn't a parade of battle maps — it's an attempt to show a war where civilian losses matched military ones for the first time, around fifty million dead worldwide. Serious viewing for anyone who wants that conflict up close, in color, without textbook grandstanding. Stream Apocalypse: The Second World War (2009) online on iFILM.