Throng

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - Wednesday 30 September, 8.30pm

Made up entirely of original 35mm, 16mm and 8mm films, this series includes rare footage of the Polish officers' massacre at Katyn, the inhumane treatment of French soldiers taken prisoner by the Nazis. The films provide viewers with a ground-breaking portrait of the Second World War that depicts not only its complexity, but the perspectives of both its victims and its victors.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - Wednesday 23 September, 8.30pm

Made up entirely of original 35mm, 16mm and 8mm films, this series includes rare footage of the Polish officers' massacre at Katyn, the inhumane treatment of French soldiers taken prisoner by the Nazis. The films provide viewers with a ground-breaking portrait of the Second World War that depicts not only its complexity, but the perspectives of both its victims and its victors.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - Wednesday 16 September, 8.30pm

Made up entirely of original 35mm, 16mm and 8mm films, this series includes rare footage of the Polish officers' massacre at Katyn, the inhumane treatment of French soldiers taken prisoner by the Nazis. The films provide viewers with a ground-breaking portrait of the Second World War that depicts not only its complexity, but the perspectives of both its victims and its victors.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - Wednesdays 2 September, 9.30pm

Wednesdays from 2 September, 8.30pm

As the French evacuated Paris in June 1940, amateur filmmakers documented the exodus as thousands lined the roads with their families and most precious possessions. As the British sifted through the rubble, people grabbed cameras to capture what it meant to stand up to Hitler throughout the Blitz. And as the Nazi army slogged through the mud and snow of Soviet Russia on the way to Moscow, soldiers used 8mm cameras to film the hardships of the war as they experienced it. This was not the stock, newsreel or propaganda footage from World War II that authorities approved and audiences became accustomed to seeing. This was provocative and sometimes disturbing footage taken by those who witnessed the war first-hand. This was the footage deemed ‘unfit’ for civilians to see. At the end of the war, this and other “Top Secret” footage of the war’s destruction was stashed away and forgotten.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - Wednesdays from 2 September, 8.30pm