Les Grandes Batailles is a series of historical television programs by Daniel Costelle, Jean-Louis Guillaud, and Henri de Turenne, broadcast on French television in the 1960s and 1970s, depicting the major battles of World War II, as well as the Nuremberg Trials. The project for the series actually began with an official government commission for a program on the Battle of Verdun in 1966. Ten other programs about World War II followed. The writers and producers of the series were Henri de Turenne and Jean-Louis Guillaud, both journalists. They entrusted the production of the series to the young director Daniel Costelle.
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Hornblower
The World at War
Dateline: World War II
Coming Home
Colditz
It Ain't Half Hot Mum
Island at War
1940, Les secrets de l’Armistice
Walking Through History
Les Grandes batailles du passé
Sharpe
The Gallant Men
Sám vojak v poli
Jungle War
The Great Tank Battles: World War II
Hogan's Heroes
Twentieth Century Battlefields
Libération(s), dans la joie et la douleur
WWII's Greatest Raids
Decision