Sky History TV Guide — Sunday, 28 June 2026

The remarkable story of retired war gamer Gilbert Roberts, officer Jean Laidlaw and the Women's Royal Navy Service (WRNS) - aka the 'Wrens' - as they use revolutionary war gaming tactics to defeat Admiral Karl Dönitz and his Wolf Pack fleets of U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War. The Second World War breaks out and a force of U-boats try to starve Britain into submission. Meanwhile, Vera Laughton Mathews recruits talented women into the WRNS. Narrated by Derek Jacobi

After the fall of France in 1940, Dönitz's most famous U-boat commanders embarked on a race to send British merchant ships to the bottom of the sea. Driven by a fierce competition to sink the highest tonnage, they terrorised the North Atlantic convoys and converged on them in wolfpack attacks. All the while, Vera Laughton Mathew's Wrens worked around the clock to bring the battle directly to Dönitz's U-boats. When confronted with unprecedented losses, and the real risk of starvation, the British Royal Navy seized on a manoeuvre developed by the famous U-boat hunter, Commander Johnny F Walker. Narrated by Derek Jacobi

The story of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) who helped take down Germany's fearsome U-boats. Though the Admiralty was convinced the Allies had the expertise to defeat Germany, Gilbert Roberts and the Wrens started devising wargaming tactics to combat U-boat formations. Narrated by Derek Jacobi

The actor explores the key events of the Second World War, from Germany's invasion of Poland through the atomic age

Documentary recounting the largely unknown and incredibly courageous story of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. There were uprisings in ghettos large and small, rebellions in death camps, and thousands of Jews fought Nazis in the forests. Everywhere in Eastern Europe, Jews waged campaigns of non-violent resistance against the Nazis