A strikingly topical new two part documentary on the Second World War, featuring seven of the world’s leading historians.

This film comprehensively covers the debates, discussions and arguments about how and whether Hitler could have been stopped, and the nature of the policy of appeasement prior to and in the early stages of the Second World War.

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This film comprehensively covers the debates, discussions and arguments about how and whether Hitler could have been stopped.

Part 1

The film explores the failure of politicians and the governed alike to understand the real threat that Hitler posed. Hitler was actually stoppable on a number of occasions - if only so many had not misread the alliances that might have been made to prevent what became an inexorable tide towards war.

The film explores the failure of politicians and the governed alike to understand the real threat that Hitler posed.