TV Guide PBS America

In the final episode, the actress Carey Mulligan discovers what happened to her grandfather who travelled thousands of miles to fight the Japanese in the final months of the Second World War. Her grandfather, Denzil Booth, lost his closest friends on board Britain's biggest warship, as it was the first to be attacked by a Japanese kamikaze. Later in the programme, Carey travels to Japan to understand the culture of the kamikaze from the other sid, and learns of the horrors her grandfather faced when he arrived in Tokyo

In the aftermath of Germany's devastating offensive against the Allies, their army prepares to capture the entire British army trapped at the port at Dunkirk. However, at the pivotal moment Hitler delays making the final killer blow, allowing Prime Minister Churchill and his commanders to devise a daring strategy to bring back the entire British army

Three Canadian Holocaust survivors journey to home towns, killing sites, archives and hiding places in search of clues to unanswered questions from their pasts. Maxwell wonders what happened to a baby he saved in a forest in 1943, Helen wants to know more about the fate of her brother, while Rose is retracing the final steps of the woman who saved her life. The survivors came of age during the Holocaust and carry the burden of knowing they are the last living link to it

Veteran pilot Rod Snider reflects on the day he and 19 other elite smokejumper firefighters parachuted into the Idaho wilderness to tackle what seemed to be a routine wildfire burning on a mountain ridge that turned into a deadly inferno thanks to fierce winds