Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la population des Ardennes rencontre les pires difficultés pour se procurer de la nourriture. Clovis franchit hardiment la ligne de démarcation pour se procurer des pommes de terre, qu'il compte cultiver pour nourrir sa famille. L'opération réussit mais ses pommes de terre deviennent une véritable obsession pour Clovis.
Durant la seconde guerre mondiale, sept soldats allemands sont faits prisonniers dans un bunker, pensant d'être entourés d'ennemis. Quand ils apprennent qu'il existe un système de tunnels souterrains et que des évènements étranges et inexplicables se sont déroulés en ce lieu, leurs esprits commencent à vaciller...
Un cambriolage tourne mal. Dave arrive à s’enfuir mais laisse son frère Kenneth derrière lui. Quatre ans plus tard, à sa sortie de prison, Kenneth, au tempérament violent, souhaite reprendre sa vie là où il l’avait laissée et est plus que jamais déterminé à reconquérir sa petite amie Sylvie. Ce qu’il ne sait pas, c’est qu’entre-temps, Dave et Sylvie sont tombés amoureux et mènent désormais une vie rangée ensemble. Avouer la vérité à Kenneth pourrait tourner au règlement de compte…
In this programe we examine the background to the campaign with a leading American historian before following the advance of one of Hitler's most successful panzer commanders, Hasso von Manteuffel, Fifth Panzer Army. We will travel in wintery conditions from the German border into the lightly held US front line. From the outset small groups of GIs did their best to delay the advance of the panzers, buying time for the vital crossroad town of Bastogne to be reinforced by 101st US Airborne Division. Under the cloak of bad weather, the Germans initially advanced successfully but more slowly than planned However, Germany's chronic lack of fuel hamstrung the advance. The British XXX Corps deployed to the River Meuse amidst controversy over Montgomery's role and injudicious words but the panzer spearheads were halted short of the river as the skies cleared and the feared fighter bombers returned.
Assagie, après plusieurs années d'absence Viviane est de retour à Montherme, petite ville des Ardennes où vivent ses parents et son demi-frère cadet, Marc. Au contact de cette ainée qu'il a sublimée, ce lycéen de quinze ans va faire le rude apprentissage de l'independance.
The Northern most thrust into the wintery Ardennes of General Manteuffel's Fifth Panzer Army fell on the inexperienced 106th US Infantry Division, who had not only just arrived in the Europe but had only been in the line for five days, in what was supposed to be a 'ghost front'. One of the best German infantry divisions, the 18th VG fell on the over extended 106th dug in on the Schnee Eifel, where two US regiments were surrounded and forced to surrender.Major General Jones was unable to stem what became a general retreat but, as in all retreats, both the best and the worst of human nature was on display. Small groups of officers and men fought on repeatedly, delaying the German spearheads on the road to St Vith and buying time for elements of 7th US Armd Div to arrive. After a desperate fight, Field Marshal Montgomery controversially took over the Northern shoulder of the Bulge and ordered 7th Armd Div and the remnants of the 106th to abandon St Vith.
In 1944 Adolf Hitler decided that his only military option " as Defeat was staring Germany in the Eyes" was to carry out a major offensive in the west to split the Allies Western Front by capturing Antwerp. This would he hoped buy time to halt the Russians in the East. this film examines his dilemma and the plan that was produced.
in 1944 when the Germans launched their last major offensive of the war they had to compensate for their lack of aircraft, manpower and armour. They did this in the main by the use of surprise and artillery. This film examines the German Field Artillery and how it was used in the The Battle of the Bulge.
A retiring gun for hire gets assigned the job of guarding a young, feisty Hungarian beauty in a remote cottage somewhere in the French Ardennes. Heat, stench and boredom push their relationship to the edge until only an irrevocable deed can establish some sort of new order.