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Battle of the Atlantic: Season 1

Miniseries 2002

  • 2002-07-06T23:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 2h 15m
  • 6h 45m (3 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary, War
Explores the desperate struggle for survival on a hostile ocean during the longest and bloodiest battle of the Second World War.

3 episodes

Series Premiere

2002-07-06T23:00:00Z

1x01 The Grey Wolves

Series Premiere

1x01 The Grey Wolves

  • 2002-07-06T23:00:00Z2h 15m

New testimony from British sailors and the U-boat men who hunted them, plus archive material and dramatic reconstructions, illustrate the threat from Churchill's one fear, the hidden enemy under the sea.

2002-07-13T23:00:00Z

1x02 Keeping Secrets

1x02 Keeping Secrets

  • 2002-07-13T23:00:00Z2h 15m

In the first 18 months of war, German U-boats sank more than three million tons of shipping. Eyewitness testimony, archive film and reconstructions illuminate the story of how Allied intelligence fought back against the killers in the deep, helped by the seizure of an Enigma code machine and cipher material.

Season Finale

2002-07-20T23:00:00Z

1x03 The Hunted

Season Finale

1x03 The Hunted

  • 2002-07-20T23:00:00Z2h 15m

In the first three years of war, German U-boats threatened to starve Britain into submission, but by the spring of 1943 the tide had turned and the hunter had become the hunted. Eyewitness testimony, archive film and reconstructions illuminate the remarkable story of how, in just months, the Allies destroyed the U-boat fleet.

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