As of July 2026, World War Two Season 5 aired in 2022 with 56 episodes — streaming now on Foxtel Now. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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World War Two Season 5

2022 56 Episodes Documentary · War & Politics ⭐ 8/10

World War Two Season 5 has built a real following on and among viewers who want documentaries that actually inform. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. 6 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. The access the production secured is remarkable, and it does justice to it. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

World War Two Season 5 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. World War Two Season 5 resists the urge to oversimplify a subject that deserves better. WW II Year 1943 Indy Neidell leads a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2022. Documentary work at this level requires access that is hard to get and storytelling that does justice to it — World War Two Season 5 has both. The hit rate here is high enough that skipping ahead never feels like an option.

For viewers who want their entertainment to leave them with something, World War Two Season 5 delivers on both counts. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch if your schedule allows. The subject drives every choice here, not the other way around. The kind of production you finish and immediately want to read more about.

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🎬 World War Two Season 5 — Episode Guide

E1
Week 175 - And Now It's 1943... - WW2 - January 1st, 1943
2022-01-01
The attrition cannot continue so the Japanese decide they will evacuate Guadalcanal, conceding the Solomon Islands to the Allies. The Allies are also conceding the Caucasus, and a naval battle in the far north convinces Hitler that he should scrap the entire German surface fleet. 1943 begins omino...
E2
Week 176 - A Soviet Offensive Along the Entire Front? - WW2 - January 8th, 1943
2022-01-08
Things look grim for the Germans, surrounded at Velikie Luki and Stalingrad and with no real help of relief. The Soviets are, in fact, making plans for attacks all along the front, as are the Americans to push the Japanese off of Guadalcanal.
E3
Week 177 - Food for Leningrad, Breaking the Siege! - WW2 - January 15th, 1943
2022-01-15
Soviet attacks are launched this week to destroy the Hungarians, all while the German desperation at Stalingrad and Velikie Luki continues, but in the far north the Soviets have broken through the siege of Leningrad after 16 months. And the Casablanca Conference begins, a meeting to guide the war’s ...
E4
Week 178 - Hitler's Interference is Losing the War - WW2 - January 22, 1943
2022-01-22
This is a rough week for the Germans- their trapped garrison at Velikie Luki is liquidated, and their trapped army at Stalingrad is... well, it isn't going well for them. In fact, it isn't going well for the Axis anywhere this week, being pushed back or retreating in New Guinea, the Caucasus, North...
E5
Week 179 - Time to Fire Rommel? - WW2 - January 29, 1943
2022-01-29
The Allies are unable to win in Tunisia, though further east Bernard Montgomery has achieved his goal of driving the enemy out of Libya. To the west, the Casablanca Conference comes to its end and the Allies write a list of their war priorities. The Soviets, however, are on the move everywhere, clo...
E6
Week 179B - Stalingrad: Endgame - WW2 - January 31, 1943
2022-01-30
The Allies are unable to win in Tunisia, though further east Bernard Montgomery has achieved his goal of driving the enemy out of Libya. To the west, the Casablanca Conference comes to its end and the Allies write a list of their war priorities. The Soviets, however, are on the move everywhere, clo...
E7
Week 180 - Guadalcanal, A New Offensive - WW2 - February 5, 1943
2022-02-05
This week sees the 10th anniversary of Hitler's ascension to power in Germany, but while there may be celebrations and speeches in Germany, the Battle of Stalingrad comes to its end with the surrender of the German 6th Army. The Soviets are on the move all over, launching yet more winter offensives....
E8
Week 181 - Victory at Guadalcanal - WW2 - February 12, 1943
2022-02-05
Operation KE, the Japanese evacuation of Guadalcanal, concludes this week and the campaign has been a big loss for the Japanese. The Axis forces are also withdrawing- and the Red Army advancing- in the Donbas and the Caucasus, closing in on both Kharkov and Rostov. And a front that's been quiet fo...
E9
Week 182 - Can the Red Army Capture Hitler? - WW2 - February 19, 1943
2022-02-19
The Red Army liberates both Rostov and Kharkov this week, but their advancing spearheads are close to an even bigger prize, Adolf Hitler himself. It is the Axis, however, who are both advancing and consolidating in Tunisia, and gearing up for new offensive actions next week.
E10
Week 183 - The Blitzkrieg is Back - WW2 - February 26, 1943
2022-02-26
Erich von Manstein's Axis counterattack on the Eastern Front begins this week and right away smashes through the Red Army lines, threatening all the recent Soviet gains. The Allies- the Americans- also suffer a big defeat in Tunisia at the Kasserine Pass, though in the Pacific it is the Americans wh...
E11
Week 184 - Another Naval Disaster for Japan - WW2 - March 5, 1943
2022-03-05
The Japanese again fail to reinforce New Guinea, losing many transport ships, and their forces there are ever more isolated. In Tunisia the Axis lose a bunch of new Tiger tanks, but in the Soviet Union it is the Axis forces that are on the offensive as Erich von Manstein's offensive continues.
E12
Week 185 - Rommel Leaves Africa - March 12, 1943
2022-03-12
Erwin Rommel loses his command and leaves Tunisia, while change in American command there puts George Patton in charge. On the ground the Axis lose the Battle of Medenine, but in the Soviet Union, Axis forces are on the move and heading for Kharkov.
E13
Week 186 - Kharkov Falls Once Again - WW2 - March 19, 1943
2022-03-19
The twin prizes of Kharkov and Belgorod fall to Erich von Manstein's German forces this week, but this is a week of preparations- the Americans and New Zealanders are on the move in North Africa so everyone can attack next week, and in the USSR Hitler plans for the Kursk salient to be eliminated. He...
E14
Week 187 - American Army Finally Does Something Right - WW2 - March 26, 1943
2022-03-26
The British are attacking the Mareth Line in North Africa while the Americans hit the Axis flank, but the Allies are withdrawing in Burma. It's the Germans who are pulling back in the USSR, though, and there is another attempt from within German Command to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
E15
Week 187B - The End of Hydra? - WW2 - April 1, 1943
2022-04-01
The phantom submarine that has been savaging both Japanese and Allied shipping in the South Pacific is tracked to Hydra Island, Baron von Strucker's base. The fighting for it is a tough hand-to-hand combat, as Japanese and American soldiers ally with each other in the face of a common enemy.
E16
Week 188 - Patton Has a Plan, and it's Bad - WW2 - April 2, 1943
2022-04-02
American attacks in Tunisia meet with local disaster, but in general the Axis forces are withdrawing there. The Allies learn about the German rocketry plans this week, and both sides are making plans for action in the Pacific.
E17
Week 189 - Mussolini is Tired of War - WW2 - April 9th, 1943
2022-04-09
Adolf Hitler meets with Benito Mussolini to hopefully restore his flagging morale and convince him that the Axis can hold out in North Africa, but the situation there grows more precarious and this week there the Allies advancing from the west and the east link up for the first time. The Axis are al...
E18
Week 190 - Kursk - The Next Great Battle? - WW2 - April 16, 1943
2022-04-16
The Allies have one chance left to catch the Axis forces in Tunisia before they can reach the Tunis defences, in the USSR both the Axis and Soviets are making plans for a fight near Kursk, and in the skies, in the South Pacific a Japanese aerial offensive ends and Yamamoto himself flies off to congr...
E19
Week 191 - Ladies and Gentlemen, We Got Him - Yamamoto - WW2 - April 23, 1943
2022-04-23
The mastermind of Pearl Harbor meets his fate this week in the Solomons, as do a great many Italian airmen and sailors in the Mediterranean in the Palm Sunday Massacre trying to supply the desperate Axis forces in Tunisia.
E20
Week 192 - The Race for Tunisia Turns into a Crawl - WW2 - April 30, 1943
2022-04-30
The Allies launch a deception operation to hide their intent of soon attacking Sicily, but first, they'll actually have to secure Tunisia, and it is slow going. A German offensive in the Caucasus grinds to a halt, and German U-Boats are suddenly finding themselves unable to destroy Allied shipping i...

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Indy Neidell
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