7.5/1032 votesLoading...#1 - Diving the World, Part 1
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/8/2008
Features the Red Army's progress through eastern Europe in 1944, as well as uncovering the power struggles and political intrigue going on behind the scenes during the most famous Allied conference of the conflict, held at Yalta in the Crimea.
Director: N/A
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7.6/1034 votesLoading...#2 - Cracks in the Alliance, Part 1
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/24/2008
The relationship between Churchill and Stalin, and the secret history that clouded their first meeting in Moscow in August 1942 where they became set on a path to achieve an uncomfortable alliance.
Director: N/A
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7.9/1033 votesLoading...#3 - Unlikely Friends, Part 1
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/10/2008
The unlikely non-aggression pact between Hitler and Stalin that existed until the Nazis betrayed the Soviet Union in June 1941, when Stalin looked to form a new alliance.
Director: N/A
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8.2/1023 votesLoading...#4 - Unlikely Friends, Part 2
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/17/2008
A look at the events of 1941 when, having been betrayed by Hitler, Stalin switched his allegiances to Britain and America. It was an alliance based on military pragmatism, which never altered the mutual antipathy between Churchill - who despised only Nazism above Communism - and the Soviet leader, who knew that his Red Army was ill-equipped to cope with the Nazi onslaught alone.
Director: N/A
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8.4/1024 votesLoading...#5 - Cracks in the Alliance, Part 2
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/1/2008
The secret history of the Second World War by focusing on the first meeting of the "Big Three" - Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin - which took place in Tehran in 1943.
Director: N/A
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8.4/1024 votesLoading...#6 - Dividing the World, Part 2
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/15/2008
Focuses on the collapse of the Allies' marriage of convenience with Stalin in the wake of Hitler's defeat and how the Soviet dictator wanted to turn on his former comrades-in-arms.
Director: N/A
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The Worst Episodes of World War Two: Behind Closed Doors
Every episode of World War Two: Behind Closed Doors ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of World War Two: Behind Closed Doors!
Documentary series using dramatic reconstructions and testimony from witnesses to reveal the 'behind closed doors' politics of the Second World War.
Genres:DocumentaryWar & Politics
Network:BBC Two
Worst Episodes Summary
"Diving the World, Part 1" is the worst rated episode of "World War Two: Behind Closed Doors". It scored 7.5/10 based on 32 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/8/2008. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Cracks in the Alliance, Part 1".