Across five history-altering days in May 1940, the war between Britain and Germany escalated into a global conflict.

With historical archive and expert interviews, this full-scale documentary takes a fully international perspective on the world's only truly global war. Discover how global superpowers such as the United States, France and the Soviet Union came to be involved, as well as the role of rising Asian nations including India, Japan and China.

Discover how the Second World War brought Britain to near bankrupcy, ended it's status as a world power and put an end to the British Empire.