Discover The Life and Death Decisions Grandparents of Famous British People Faced During WWII.

8pm Thursday MY GRANDPARENTS WAR – Record/Tradition
Four Hollywood stars are exploring their family’s remarkable Earth War II stories.

Actor and peace activist Mark Rylance learns the true and surprising story of how his grandfather survived Hong Kong’s notorious POW camps.

Mark Rylance has performed figures from Shakespeare to Spielberg more than the yrs, a lot of of which have been caught up in the violence and tragedy of war, but in his individual lifetime, he’s been very committed to the trigger of peace. On this journey Mark explores the remarkable tale of his grandfather, Osmond Skinner, who expended virtually four several years as a Japanese prisoner of war in the course of Entire world War II, and in the procedure he examines his very own beliefs about war and peace.

9pm Increase OF THE NAZIS: DICTATORS AT WAR – Documentary
A glance at how Hitler and the Nazi get together rose to electric power in Germany in the course of the 1930s. It is a potent and resonant portrait of the greed, manipulation and scary underestimation of Adolf Hitler’s ambition.

STALINGRAD – It’s 1942, and Hitler has just lost the Fight of Moscow. Now winter in Russia, German troops are in desperate want of fuel and means.