The History Channel Ultimate Collections
World War II
Empires of Industry: War Planes of World War II & Nuremberg: Tyranny on Trial

DISC 7:
EMPIRES OF INDUSTRY: WAR PLANES OF WORLD WAR II: Flight was born in America at the turn of the century. But World War II saw more planes built in a single year--300,000--than had been built in the previous forty.

World War II turned the American aviation industry into a huge, high-tech giant. Among the aircraft built for World War II were some of the greatest planes of all time: the C-47 transport (the "Loony Bird"); the rugged B-17 Flying Fortress; the B-24 Liberator, mass-produced by Ford on the world’s longest assembly line; the P-51 Mustang, the greatest prop-driven fighter; and the scrappy Grumman "Iron Works" output--Wildcats and Hellcats that leapt from the decks of U.S. aircraft carriers to maul the Japanese air force.

Modern shots of restored aircraft, historic footage ranging from factory floors to dogfights, and interviews with pilots and designers recapture the aviation industry’s finest hour.

DISC 8:
NUREMBERG: TYRANNY ON TRIAL: World War II didn’t end on the battlefield--it ended in a courtroom. The Nuremberg Trials bore witness to some of humanity’s darkest hours and revealed the full scope of the atrocities of Nazism, culminating in the execution of many top Nazi leaders.

NUREMBERG: TYRANNY ON TRIAL follows the hearings from accusation to sentencing, offering insight into the cases of such defendants as Rudolph Hess and Hermann Goering. Discover how the trials galvanized modern principles regarding the laws of nations and established a new standard for atrocity: "Crimes against Humanity." Meet some of the men who witnessed the hearings and those who presented the cases, including the chief counsel for the prosecution, while history balanced on their every word.

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