WW2: Women on the Frontline — Season 1, Episode 1: Behind Enemy Lines
Documentary, War & Politics • 46 min • 1 season, 3 episodes • ★ 7.0/10
Episode synopsis
Brave women across Europe risked everything to battle against Hitler’s Nazi hordes behind enemy lines. This intriguing history documentary reveals just some of them. Josephine Baker used her celebrity status to smuggle information to the Allies. A wireless operator in France single-handedly supported a Paris spy network. And teenage girls in the Netherlands bravely assassinated Nazi officers.
About WW2: Women on the Frontline
Defying expectations, overcoming prejudices, and often outperforming their counterparts, these are the courageous, and unwritten stories of the women who fought the Nazis. This remarkable documentary explores the daring and unknown histories of the remarkable pilots, journalists, guerrillas and spies who fought, flew, and died across Britain, Germany, France and beyond during World War II.