Now playingThe first episode of a television drama series based on the occupation by the Nazis of the Channel Islands during the Second World War. This episode focuses on 1940.
Enemy at the Door
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The Librarian
Part 2: Cecily Brown, the librarian, tries to stop the Nazi destruction of books.
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The Germans arrange a dance. But the propaganda exercise misfires and a soldier goes on trial.
A British landing on Guernsey goes tragically awry.
British troops attempt an amphibious assault on Guernsey.
Winter 1940, during the Nazi Occupation of the Channel Islands. The Kommandant orders a crackdown on civil disobedience. A young boy unwittingly aids the Germans.
Winter 1940. To counteract cold and hunger, the islanders plan to present an Ivor Novello comedy. But echoes of a death in Latvia seven years ago disturb the plans.
A new German drug is needed to save the life of a Guernsey boy. Some of the tablets go missing.
A German soldier and an Island girl fall in love.
A German general arrives on a secret mission.
Edward Bree and his mother are evicted to make way for a gun emplacement.
A new adjutant arrives. He knows something about Reinicke's past.
Last programme in the first season. A British destroyer has been sunk by a new, fast German torpedo boat. Clare Martel and Petere Porteous are determined top get details of the vessel to London.