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At the close of WWII, Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle travels with, and reports on, the U.S. Army's 77th Infantry Division during their liberation of Italy.

In 1944, German paratroopers must defend the Monte Cassino area of Italy from Allied attacks while artifacts from the nearby historical abbey are evacuated to the Vatican by army trucks.

A group of German Tank Crew fight to survive in France while a French woman falls in love with the German lieutenant.

In this World War II documentary, we examine several of the controversial bombings of the war. Included is Allies bombing of the Benedictine Monastery on Monte Cassino.

Sergeant John Baker will see fierce battles and will feel their burdens in the sands of Tunisia, plains of Sicily and mountains of Central Italy for achieving the main goal - put the Axis powers' tyranny to an end.

Semi-documentary, made with Vatican cooperation, about the battle over a medieval abbey, exfluncticated during US General Mark Clark's drive through Italy because American military intelligence was convinced it was occupied by the Germans.

The life of Saint Benedict, the founder of Western Monasticism, taped at Subiaco and Montecassino Italy and Subiaco Arkansas. Hosted by Bob and Penny Lord.

Presenter and former England football captain Gary Lineker follows in the footsteps of his grandfather, Stanley Abbs, to explore a brutal but often overlooked chapter of World War Two.

This 58 (fifty-eight) minute feature was produced by the Paramount Newsreel department ("The Eyes and Ears of the World") and vaguely suggests that the Italian campaign of World War II that in the way the "Forgotten Campaign of WWII" was vital to the whole defeat of Hitler and Nazi Germany, the Korean campaign may be vital to stopping communism. Primarily the central action of the film covers the aerial bombardment of the famed monastery "Montecassino," which the Nazis had fortified and used to slow down the Allied march through Italy to France and Germany. Part of the film is told around the exploits of U. S. Army Sergeant James W. Logan, and U. S. Army Captain David Ludlum, a weather-forecasting officer. The long months of the war after the liberation of Rome are passed over, but a lot of footage dealing with the landings at Salerno, and the dreary battles and muddy conditions there---documented elsewhere by famed war-correspondent Ernie Pyle and "Stars and Stripes" cartoonist Bill Mauldin, with his "Wille and Joe" strips.

December 1943 - June 1944. Canada, war-seasoned, girds for the final assault. In the Arctic, Canadian ships sail the Murmansk run with supplies for beleaguered Russia. The Italian campaign intensifies.

This episode tells the story of the Allied attack on the German-occupied Monte Cassino Monastery in Italy and how, although subjected to non-stop shelling, infantry attacks and bombardment it resisted capture until it was finally reduced to rubble by bombing raids.

The difficulties of the Italian Campaign beginning with Operation Torch in North Africa and the invasion of Sicily. Salerno, Anzio, Cassino, and the capture of Rome.

The Battle of Monte Cassino, also known as the Battle for Rome and the Battle for Cassino, was a series of four assaults made by the Allies against German forces in Italy during the Italian Campaign of World War II. The ultimate objective was to break through the Winter Line, and facilitate an advance towards Rome.

The Germans hear that Polish forces are fighting alongside a huge bear. Tales of this beer-swilling, chain-smoking beast terrify them - but incredibly the stories are true.

After escaping the German invasion of their homeland in 1939, Polish fighter pilots and ground forces played a key role in the liberation of western Europe.

This edition takes a look at the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, or Anzacs, who first saw active service in Libya with the British when they forced the Italian army to surrender.

The M1 Black Dragon 240 mm howitzer fires a 240 pound high explosive shell so it can do considerable damage. Bit it has to be within nine miles of its target and that takes some doing. It has to be disassembled into two parts which are trucked separately at 5 miles per hour and reassembled using a crane over the better part of a day.

Italy's failed attacks in the Mediterranean region draw in the Germans.

The actor explores his paternal grandparents service in the British secret services and how they met and married in the Caribbean. He also looks at the stories of his maternal grandparents who fell in love during the Blitz.

With the power of the Soviet army pushing back the German forces on the lands they occupied, and faced with the devastation of German cities by Allied bombers, Goebbels calls for 'total war'.

The bombing of Tokyo demonstrated the power of the B-29 bomber. The cost of creating this machine exceeds that of the Manhattan Project, which developed the first atomic bomb.