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From The Front To The Films: A World War II Podcast

Dec 11, 2023

Narrated by Jim Nantz. 

Some of the most intense fighting of World War II took place in the northern mountains of Italy in the closing days of the battle for Europe. Bob Dole, a young Lieutenant from Kansas, was caught up in the brutal fight. Dole’s time in the northern Apennine mountains, along what military planners...


Aug 7, 2023

Narrated by Dan Aykroyd. From the Holocaust to the dropping of the Atomic bombs, this film tells the story of an individual who owned the largest private collection of World War II artifacts in the world. Over 50 interviews with veterans and survivors of the war help tell the story of the meaning of the over 7,000...


Aug 7, 2023

Narrated by Darius Rucker. The Tuskegee Airmen were all black pilots who flew heroic missions for the United States in Europe in World War II. Their base in Ramitelli, Italy, was a proving ground for these pilots, who were segregated at home and overseas but became household names for their courage and bravery in World...


Aug 7, 2023

Narrated by Country Music’s number one recording star, Luke Bryan.

On September 2nd, 1945, World War II came to its official end aboard a legendary battleship anchored in Tokyo Bay. Some seventy million people had died during the war, but now the fighting would end not with a rifle shot but rather with the swift...


Aug 7, 2023

Narrated by Greg Kinnear.

Germany’s most famous commander of World War II, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, had one fatal flaw: He always spoke his mind to Adolf Hitler. Rommel would pay for voicing the truth to his Fuhrer with his life.

An earlier hero of World War I, Erwin Rommel was many things. A career soldier, a...