World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West

*World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West*
World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West
	PBS
Original release
Network	BBC

World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West is a 2008 six-episode

German-Soviet relations before, during, and after World War II, created by Laurence Rees and Andrew Williams

.

It carries new controversial material from the

end of the Soviet Union

. Each episode lasts approximately one hour and features reenactments of the situations subject.

Background

The 2008 film combines narrative-led documentary segments interwoven by dramatic re-enactments with actors representing main political figures of the period. The original narrative voice-over was performed by Samuel West, while

Alexei Petrenko, Winston Churchill, by Paul Humpoletz, and Franklin D. Roosevelt by Bob Gunton.^[1]^[2]

The series delves into such matters as the British, American, and Soviet cover-up of the

Andrew Williams.^[1]^[3]

Episodes

#	Title
1	"Unlikely Friends 1/2"
Looks at the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 after the Battle of Poland together with the planning and start of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union of 1941.
2	"Unlikely Friends 2/2"
Explores the relationship between the Soviet Union and Britain during the war, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and plans for a Western Front in Europe.
3	"Cracks in the Alliance 1/2"
Features the Moscow Conference between Stalin and Churchill and two battles on the Eastern Front: Stalingrad and Kursk.
4	"Cracks in the Alliance 2/2"
Covers the D-Day in France and the Warsaw Uprising .
5	"Dividing the World 1/2"
Details the Battle of Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge, the Yalta Conference, the push to Berlin, and the victory over Germany from the perspective of Allied nations.
6	"Dividing the World 2/2"
Focuses on Stalin, to the eventual fall of communist influence with the Berlin Wall in 1989.