Season 1 – Ultimate Survival WWII

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Oct 2019

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Hazen Audel travels across the globe to relive some of the most astonishing stories of wilderness survival from World War II, during which soldiers, sailors and airmen became lost behind enemy lines in some of the most inhospitable places on Earth.

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Episode 1

Aired Oct 28, 2019

POW Jungle Escape

Hazen Audel takes on swamps, caves and deadly predators as he retraces the treacherous journey of 11 U.S. soldiers who fled a prisoner-of war-camp in the Philippines.

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Episode 2

Aired Nov 4, 2019

Death in the Outback

Retracing the journey of four American airmen who crashed in the Australian Outback during World War II.

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Episode 3

Aired Nov 11, 2019

Frozen Nazi Escape

Hazen Audel braves Europe's largest plateau to retrace the white-knuckle escape of the Norwegian commandos who thwarted Adolf Hitler's creation of an atomic bomb.

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Episode 4

Aired Nov 18, 2019

Desert Island Manhunt

Hazen Audel retraces the steps of Lt. Hugh Miller who was shipwrecked on a Japanese-occupied island in the South Pacific; left for dead, the U.S. Navy officer single handedly fights and kills Japanese soldiers until his rescue several weeks later.

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Episode 5

Aired Nov 25, 2019

Death Railway Escape

Hazen Audel faces the bamboo jungles of Thailand, retracing the steps of 10 prisoners who escaped from a brutal Japanese labor camp that ran along the Thailand-Burma Death Railway during World War II.

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Episode 6

Aired Dec 2, 2019

Nazi Island Manhunt

Hazen Audel retraces the epic plight of an escaped prisoner of war who cleverly evaded capture on Nazi-occupied Crete for more than two years.

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Network: National Geographic
Rating: TV-14
Genre: History, War
Original Language: English
Release Date: Oct 28, 2019

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