The Battle for Hitler's Supership

Overview

Documentary about the huge and powerful Second World War German battleship Tirpitz, and the Allied hunt for it throughout the Atlantic and Arctic, making thirty-six attempts to sink it. The Tirpitz was the Third Reich's ultimate weapon - the most successful German battleship of WWII. This documentary recreates the five-year struggle to destroy Hitler's biggest battleship, with American, Canadian and British survivors and their counterparts in the Forces today.