The Last 100 Days

A look at the final 100 days of the Second World War.

With military historian Norm Christie as our guide, we explore the battlefields, cemeteries and monuments of the First World War. The men who fought tell their stories, and we discover how the naive, amateur soldiers of 1914 became, by 1918, perhaps the most feared, efficient and deadly Allied fighting machine on the Western Front: the "Canadian Corps."
FOR KING AND EMPIRE tells the stories of ordinary Canadians who fought extraordinary battles during the First World War. Six episodes represent a turning point in the Great War: Ypres, the Somme, Vimy, Passchendaele, the Battles of the Last Hundred Days, and the Legacy of the War.

Have you ever wondered if you could give up your connected way of life and live off the land where you lay your head each night? To thrive in a tightknit community living off the land might seem like a nightmare for some, but there is a group of people who find it exhilarating to use the Earth's natural resources to create a way of life. This new series spotlights a new generation who leave their homes and every creature comfort behind as they set out to take on a vast expanse of Alaska. They must work together to establish a self-sustaining colony where they make their own rules all before winter arrives.

The history of Canada's involvement in the First World War. Narrated by Paul Gross.

The battle over the food supply becomes the last straw for Adam, Evan, Christine and Gerrid. Andrew and Jennifer are abandoned at base camp. Adam and Evan join Oliver on a nearby claim, leading to a final confrontation with Andrew.

Stranded, freezing and desperate for food, Adam and Evan make a dangerous journey to base camp. When outpost founders Andrew and Jennifer take control of the food supply, it's the last straw for Adam. Oliver tries to survive solo as temperatures plummet.

The world believes that the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended World War II. The world is wrong. Join Jim B. Smith, author of "The Last Mission," as he recounts his journey aboard The Boomerang, a B-29 Superfortress on the last and longest mission that really ended the war. Smith was aboard this last mission, which destroyed a precision target 270 miles northwest of Tokyo nine days after Hiroshima and six days after Nagasaki.

Nearly 1,000 years ago, the Vikings left Scandinavia and settled across Europe – giving their name to Normandy along the way – before their Norman descendants seized the English throne at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. But what do we really know about them?

It was the challenge of a lifetime. While the coronavirus was spreading in Wuhan, China, scientists were already mobilizing to fight back. Inside The Great Vaccine Race, a documentary from The Nature of Things, is the dramatic story of the high-stakes mission to defeat a killer virus and save millions of lives.

Here is the ultimate synchronisation of details and events which signalled the last six months of the greatest conflict the world has ever known. It involved over 100 countries, it killed 50 million people and absorbed six years of struggle and bloodshed for the peoples of half the globe.