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- Alice, a twenty-year-old girl of modest origin, lives in Bayeux, a small town in Normandy. She has an unambitious boyfriend, Kevin, and works at the the moment as a salesgirl in a bakeshop. But her passion is fashion and she has a gift for weaving wool. At the tearoom she serves a patron, Agnès, who spots her talent. Determined to help her develop her skills,the wealthy woman encourages the young lady to enroll at the Ecole Duperré in Paris, a prestigious school of Applied Arts. Alice is selected and must now leave Bayeux, her mother, Kevin and her friends for Paris. In the meantime, she has fallen in love with Antoine, Agnès's son, a sensitive young man revolted both against his mother and his bourgeois milieu...
- After serving bravely in World War II, American Paul remains in France and becomes a black marketeer. He meets Christine, an attractive French girl whose husband is in jail for collaborating with the Germans, and they fall in love, but before they can make a life together, they must confront the demons that keep them apart.
- From the ordinary to the incredible, the requirements of the Allied forces, when making their long awaited invasion to drive the Nazis back from their Atlantic Wall, were the stuff of future legends. What was needed to not only land the invading forces, but also to try and help them fight their way off the beaches into the French countryside, taxed the inventiveness of man. From tanks laying their own tracks to gliders and pre-invasion reconnaissance to check the firmness of the beaches, it was all thought of and used to the maximum in making D-Day a success.
- Seven part series in which presenter Jo Sinnott rides a Triumph Bonneville motorcycle, challenging herself to explore Europe, wild camping all the way. On her journey she passes through Ireland, UK, France, Spain and Portugal. She meets an array of interesting and often eccentric characters and camps in some of the continent's most beautiful, unspoilt locations.
- In occupied Normandy, Ulrich and Werner have a problem. They have just 24 hours to learn to dance the tango. Perfectly. If they fail, they'll be court-marshalled and sent to the Russian front. As D-Day looms, the German beach defences become the backdrop for an intense, rhythmic race against time...
- Making use of 'Kilroy," World War II's famous G. I. who was everywhere and left his signature to prove it, this entry in RKO's "This is America" series accompanies "Mr. and Mrs. Kilroy" as they visit the scenes of many battles five years after the war ended; Omaha Beach, Saint Lo, Bartonge, Remagen Bridge and the liberation of Paris from the Nazis. The film uses archive footage from 1944 and current (1949) footage as a before-and-after contrast.
- The final three teams travel from Barcelona, Spain through France to Garrison, New York, knowing that every decision that they make along the way is critical. The first team to arrive at the finish line wins the US$1 million prize.
- Researchers and historians are still arguing about why Omaha Beach was the hardest beach to capture in the D-Day landings. Presented by Richard Hammond.