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World War 2: Reloaded
World War 2: Reloaded
Project Summary
Looking for co-production
Project format: TV docudrama, 26 episodes x 52 min (2 seasons - 13 episodes each)
Producers: Valeriy Babich, Vlad Ryashin
Our goal: To find co-production partners to participate in this exciting and monumental project.
The series will provide an accurate and unbiased blow-by-blow account of the war from start to
finish. Fascinating and enthralling in its detail and visually stunning, the series will be aimed at
viewers of all ages and demographics around the world.
The purpose of our project, intended for production almost 40 years after Thames Television’s
"The World At War” series was released, is to create a brand new and ‘updated’ documentary
series covering the entire Second World War relevant to today’s viewer.
Artistic means:
We will use stunning computer-generated imagery combined with dramatic reconstruction and
wartime actuality footage to capture the drama and magnitude of the war. The detailed and
gripping narrative will be accessible to viewers of all ages and of interest even to those already
familiar with history. The transformation of actuality footage into 3D computer-generated imagery
and 2D image-frames with textual explanations will be one of the many unique and vivid
techniques used in the series.
Today’s technology enables the visual re-creation of events that were not documented at the
time. Special attention will also be paid the main political and military figures in the war as well as
the weaponry, maps and military tactics.
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World War 2: Reloaded
Series Structure
The project will give an account of how the war developed by periods in the main
theatres of operation.
1. Before the War: 1933-1939
Hitler’s rise to power. The so-called peace of Munich. Germany prepares for war.
2. The War Begins: September 1939 - May 1940
Occupation of Poland. The war of the USSR with Finland. Division of Poland.
3. The Fall of Europe: May - June 1940
The occupation of Denmark and Norway. The Germans attack Holland and France.
4. The Battle of Britain: May 1940 - May 1941
Battles in the skies over Britain. The biggest aerial battle during World War 2 that started on
July 9th and ended on October 30th, 1940.
5. Operation Barbarossa: The USSR
The German invasion of the USSR. Encirclement of Minsk.
The Battle for Smolensk. Encirclement of Kiev. Barbarossa’s collapse.
6. Battle for Moscow
The German attack on Moscow. Counter-attack near Moscow. Defeat of the German army.
7. Japan 1931 – 1942: Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The USA enters the war.
8. The USA in the War: 1939 – 1942
The USA enters the war. Hostility and diplomacy.
9. Siege of Leningrad. Odessa. Sevastopol.
Blockade of Leningrad. «The Road of Life». Defence of Odessa and Sevastopol.
10. War in the Desert: North Africa 1940-1943
The desert campaigns of Rommel’s army in Africa. Counter-attack by the British army.
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Series Structure
11. Stalingrad: June 1942 - February 1943
The German army moves to the Caucasus and Stalingrad. Defence of Stalingrad. Encirclement
and defeat of the German Army.
12. The Battle for the Atlantic
Convoys from the USA to England. Submarines in the Atlantic 1939 – 1944. The war with the
«wolfpacks».
13. Kursk Salient: 1943
The crash of the last German attack in the Eastern Front. The biggest tank battle in the war.
Counter-attack of the Red Army.
14. War in the Skies: 1939 - April 1944
The fight for the supremacy in the air. Pilots of Britain, Poland, the USSR and the USA against
the Luftwaffe.
15. Italy: November 1942 - June 1944
Disembarkation of the allies and armed actions of Italy.
16. The Iron Stream
The technology war. Industry and military equipment. Evacuation of plants in the USSR.
Creation of new samples of equipment in Germany, Britain, the USA and the USSR.
V-1 flying bomb, radars, tanks, rockets, airplanes, fleet. Lend-lease.
17. Burma: 1942 – 1944
The US fleet and landing force in the war for Burma.
18. Britain: 1940 – 1944
19. Intelligence in the War
The role of intelligence services in the war.
20. Operation Bagration: Belarus June 1944.
The biggest attack of the war. Defeat of the group of armies «Centre».
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21. D-Day
Operation Neptune. The allied landings in Normandy and actions of the British, US, Canadian
and Australian armies.
22. The Hot August: August 1944
Falaise pocket. Lvov – Sandomierz Offensive August 1944.
Allied armed actions during the summer of 1944 along two fronts. Yassy – Kishinev Operation.
Romanian Operation.
23. Invasion: September 1944 - March 1945
Development of the allies’ attack before the spring 1945. Ardennes Offensive. PetsamoKirkenes Offensive. Vistula – Oder Offensive.
24. Genocide
General plan «Ost». Concentration camps. Genocide.
25. The Battle for Germany: February - May 1945
Attacks on Germany in spring 1945.
26. Fall of Berlin: May 1945
The attack and storm on Berlin.
27. The Pacific Ocean: February 1942 - July 1945
The war in the Pacific.
28. The Bomb: February - September 1945
Atomic bombing of Japan.
29. The End
The USSR enters the war against Japan. Japan’s defeat.
30. From War to Peace
The world after the war. Consequences of the war. Local conflicts. The Cold war.
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Contacts
William J. Peck
Maria Grechishnikova
International Sales Consultant
Head of International Projects Department
83 Victoria Street, LONDON SW1H 0HW, UK
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