Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day comes to depend on the readings taken by Maureen Flavin, a young girl who works at a post office, used as a weather station, in Blacksod, in County Mayo, the westernmost promontory of Europe, far from the many lands devastated by the iron storms of World War II.
Jim y Hilda Bloggs son una pareja de jubilados que viven en una remota zona rural de Gran Bretaña poco antes del inicio de una guerra nuclear. Profundamente patriotas, tienen absoluta confianza en su gobierno y se han informado sobre todo de qué es necesario hacer en caso de que el enemigo ataque su país. Jim ha leído los folletines oficiales sobre la la bomba atómica, e inicia la construcción de un refugio que les protegerá en caso de una explosión nuclear.
A documentary produced by the French armed forces which chronicles the way of France’s “1ere armée” in the second world war from the days it first crossed the Rhine in March of 1945, through the liberation of a POW-camp in Swabia, until the forces reached the Danube and the Alps at the end of the war and the day French troops marched in the victory parade in Berlin.