Secrets of the Imperial War Museum
Secrets of the Imperial War Museum

Secrets of the Imperial War Museum

2021 1 Seasons 6 Episodes ⭐ 7.5

For the first time, the Imperial War Museum has allowed cameras behind the scenes. This strand uncovers rarely heard first-hand accounts, and reveals the pressure faced by hundreds of IWM experts and volunteers as they work to preserve the most important objects and stories from our wartime past.

For the first time, the Imperial War Museum has allowed cameras behind the scenes. This strand uncovers rarely heard first-hand accounts, and reveals the pressure faced by hundreds of IWM experts and volunteers as they work to preserve the most important objects and stories from our wartime past.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

HMS Belfast

The series begins aboard the 83-year-old warship, HMS Belfast as an expert team races to get her ready for reopening

EP 2

World War 2 and the Holocaust

At IWM's flagship site a team are racing to complete a set of new galleries dedicated to telling the story of World War

EP 3

Husky

At IWM Duxford, a Husky armoured vehicle that was blown up by an IED attack in Afghanistan in 2012 is carefully lifted i

EP 4

Ai Weiwei

In Sheffield, cameras follow Dean who discovered a chest full of lost First World War letters and artifacts under a bed

EP 5

Holocaust Galleries

Experts work on a new gallery; curator James Bulgin meets the granddaughter of a man who was murdered at Auschwitz to un

EP 6

Final Touches

The final touches are being made ahead of the opening of the new galleries.

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