Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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This premium documentary explores the critical turning points of WW2 in 1942, where the tides of global conflict shifted forever. Witness the unstoppable rise and sudden fracturing of the Imperial Japanese Empire, from the catastrophic fall of Singapore and the horrors of the Bataan Death March to the intelligence triumph at the Battle of Midway. Meanwhile, in Western Europe, see how Air Marshall Arthur Harris unleashed a ruthless new strategy of nighttime area bombing against Germany. Through rare archival footage and moving eyewitness testimony, discover how empires were lost and won.

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