You can find the trailer for the series below, underneath we've picked five other great wartime dramas for those hungry for more.īased on the non-fiction book of the same name by Stephen Ambrose, HBO first aired the excellent wartime drama Band of Brothers in 2001.
The Saboteurs offers an eye-opening account of just how close Germany came to successfully creating nuclear weapons during the second world war, and how a small team of soldiers scuppered Hitler's plans by the narrowest of margins. Heavily associated with the Norwegian resistance movement during Nazi occupation, Tronstad helped orchestrate the sabotage operation, a mission which almost ended in disaster when two gliders carrying British troops crashed into the mountains, leaving a team of Norwegian soldiers hiding in the forest and hunting their own food for several weeks while the Allies hastily scrabbled together a Plan B. If that sounds familiar, it's probably because Anthony Mann's 1965 film The Heroes of Telemark basically covers the same story, but where Mann's account is heavily fictionalised and crammed into two hours for the big screen, The Saboteurs explores the story in much more detail, with a particular focus on Norwegian scientist-turned-saboteur Leif Tronstad. Originally aired in Norway under the title Kampen om Tungtvannet ( The Heavy Water War), The Saboteurs explores the details of a small but crucial mission to thwart Adolf Hitler's plans to build an atomic bomb during WWII by sabotaging a heavy water plant in the Norwegian town of Rjukan. The last few months have seen other channels getting in on the action too, with Henrik Björn's Jordskott currently nearing the end of a 10-episode run on ITV, while Channel 4 has just completed a six-episode broadcast of The Saboteurs, the Norwegian wartime drama, which also arrives in stores today (August 10th) on DVD and Blu-ray.
It doesn't stop there either shows like Lilyhammer have helped spearhead Netflix's drive for original content on its streaming service and last year's re-broadcasting of Swedish-Danish co-production The Bridge completed a run of 'Nordic Noir' success stories for BBC Four.
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Since BBC Four first re-broadcast Swedish crime drama Wallander in 2010, recent years have been pretty successful for Scandinavian TV exports as well as a British remake of the series starring Kenneth Branagh as the curmudgeonly detective, Danish political drama Borgen and Norwegian crime series The Killing have also proved to be huge hits for the BBC, the latter earning itself an equally successful American remake produced by AMC. The Saboteurs (and five of the best TV series about WWII)
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