Discovery Channel - Battlefield: Series 4 (2000) x264 AC3 MVGroup

The BATTLEFIELD series provides a thorough and comprehensive picture of the World War II. This sweeping documentary series offers up detailed accounts of the key battles, combining extensive use of archival footage with full color 3D animation and a compelling and vivid narrative, complete with main weapon systems used and portraits of the principal leaders and commanders. Troop movements, arms deployed, motivation of key players, are all described in detail. In addition to the events, we can also learn about the motive for the outbreak of the battles and their consequences, along with the military and political situation of the age. Each battle is placed in the larger context of the global situation.

Part 1: The Battle of Kursk
In the Summer of 1943 more than 2,000,000 men of the German and Russian Armies and over 6,000 tanks were gathered together near the Russian town of Kursk. The scene was set for one of the war s most crucial engagements the outcome of which would have a vital bearing on the outcome of the conflict.

Part 2: Air War Over Germany
This documentary shows you the bombing raids on Nazi Germany. From the first failed attacks by the Royal Air Force bombers in the early 1940s to the carpet of bombs on cities such as Dresden.

Part 3: Manchuria: The Forgotten Victory
The remarkable Soviet victory over the once mighty Japanese Kwangtung Army group in the mountains of Manchuria is one of the least known of the Second World War. This was no steam roller triumph of greater numbers and brute force but a victory for superior weaponry, brilliant tactical use of surprise and bold command that was achieved in little more than a fortnight.

Part 4: Pearl Harbor
This documentary covers the period in the Pacific War during World War II when the Japanese armed forces were on the ascendant. In the west, the Japanese carrier fleet attacked the American fleet at Pearl Harbor; in the east, the Japanese army took the vital British base at Singapore.

Part 5: Guadalcanal
The attack on Pearl Harbor was supposed to obviate the need for the grinding attritional battle that was the hallmark for the bloody fighting of Guadalcanal. The capture of this strategically crucial island in the Solomans - during which more than 25,000 Japanese lost their lives - was the key to the US victory in the Philippines and paved the way for the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the final defeat of Japan.

Part 6: The Siege of Leningrad
This is the story of one of Second World War's most harrowing episodes. The 890 day siege of the Soviet Union's second city has come to epitomise the misery, suffering and savagery of the war on the Eastern Front. During this horrible period, the Germans hold the city in hand while the Russians isolate the city from the outside world. The conditions inside the city are hard to imagine. After Army Group North had surrounded the city, Leningrad's most important supply lines were cut off. This and constant bombardments,