Hitler's Last Stand

A Canadian regiment strikes a Panzer unit accused of horrific war crimes. Meanwhile, German troops cling to the critical hub of Caen.

The Allies target the Nazi-held port of Brest. But when flame-throwing tanks fail, it takes an explosive solution to down the fort's walls.

Freezing weather slows the Allies as they close in on the German border. US Rangers go after Hill 400 while the Nazis secretly prepare for the Battle of the Bulge.

With Hitler dead, an American tank commander leads a race to save VIP prisoners from a castle in the Alps, But when loyal Nazis strike, they struggle to hold out.

After the surprise of the D-Day landings Nazi loyalists dig in to keep a merciless grip on the towns, strongholds and fortresses of occupied Europe.

The Calgary Highlanders launch a diversionary attack against a heavily defended causeway to assist Allied Commandos to land on Walcheren Island.

In bitter fighting, American forces clash with elite Nazi troops in the Colmar Pocket to complete the liberation of France in January 1945.

U.S. forces fight to the death against Adolf Hitler's massive surprise offensive to slow the Nazi advance allowing for the legendary defense of Bastogne, Belgium.

After liberating much of France, Luxembourg and Belgium Allied forces launch the largest airborne attack ever in an attempt to end the war in 1944.

As Allied armies line up along the River Rhine prepared to invade Nazi Germany, the race for a bridge could change the course of the war.

US Paratroopers dropped into France before the D-Day landings and battled Nazi defenders for a key bridge behind enemy lines.

Five months after D-Day, the war finally reaches German soil as British soldiers fight in the shadow of Hitler's infamous Siegfried Line.

In April 1945, 2nd Lt. Vernon J. Baker and a platoon of American Buffalo Soldiers fight three miles into enemy territory to close in on a Nazi occupied castle in Italy, avoiding minefields, destroying observation posts and capturing machine gun nests. But to make a final assault, they must wait for reinforcements. It will take more than fifty years for the valor of these African American soldiers to be fully acknowledged.

With thousands of German soldiers trapped in the Falaise Pocket, a small Canadian tank squadron tries to close off the escape route.

A US Parachute Infantry Regiment protects a critical bridge from a Nazi battle group during the opening days of the Battle of the Bulge.

After coming ashore with the French-Canadian Regiment de la Chaudiere on D-Day, a sniper loses the sight in one eye during the battle for Caen but refuses to be sent home and rejoins his regiment. In April 1945, as the Chaudieres Leo Major volunteers to try and make contact with the Dutch resistance in the city of Zwolle, and manages to liberate the city without the loss of civilian life.

In the aftermath of the D-Day landings, Nazi paratroopers dig in to defend at Carentan to prevent the link up on US forces on Utah and Omaha Beaches.

As the war finally arrives on German soil, US soldiers must smash through two layers of the infamous Siegfried Line to capture the city of Aachen.

A Japanese American regiment fights through darkened forests, heavy rains, and entrenched Nazis to reach a lost US battalion in the Vosges Mountains.

As the Battle of the Bulge rages, a young US scout becomes separated from his regiment and spends the night trapped behind the enemy line.

In a bid a bid to support the Battle of the Bulge, Himmler launches a surprise offensive into France against nearly arrived, green US troops.

After a nighttime crossing of the Savio River, a platoon of Canadian tank hunters fights off Nazi Panther tanks with only the weapons they can carry.

In 1944, resistance fighters declare a Free French Republic in Eastern France. The Nazis respond by dispatching 10,000 German soldiers to crush their rebellion.

In August 1944, when Hitler launches Operation Lüttich to retake the port city of Avranches, German panzer and SS troops quickly overrun the French town of Mortain and completely encircle a battalion of US soldiers who hold the high ground on Hill 314. An American artillery observer and his radio is all that stands between their survival and certain capture.

In the autumn of 1944, Patton's Third Army approaches the heavily fortified region of Metz. After being turned back from Fort Driant, Patton's men target Fort Koenigsmacker a month later. Using C2 plastic explosives, gasoline and grenades to find a new way to smash the German line and advance to the Rhine.

In February 1945, Allied forces lead an attack out of the Netherlands and onto German soil west of the Rhine defended by elite paratrooper units. When three quarters of his regiment is wiped out in one of Germany's counterattacks, a Canadian battalion administrator must assume command of a company and lead them into battle.

American soldier of Mexican descent crawls through minefield to capture German machine gun nests hindering his unit's advance on village amid larger battle in Hurtgen Forest, risking life to protect comrades and achieve objective.

January 1945. An American 2nd Lieutenant sends his company back during an enemy counterattack during the Allied bid to clear the Colmar Pocket. He tries to hold off the German soldiers with his carbine rifle and calling in artillery but runs out of bullets. When he prepares to retreat, he notices a .50 caliber machine gun mounted on a burning tank destroyer and climbs aboard to continue his fight.