Directed by The Great Courses

Craig L. Symonds

World War II: The Pacific Theater, produced by The Great Courses in partnership with HISTORY, takes you into the sweeping story of the American fight against the Japanese. Taught by a distinguished military historian at the US Naval War College, these 24 vivid episodes chronicle the global trajectory of the war in the Pacific, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the birth of the atomic age

Rated TVPG

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Episode 1

The Road to War in the Pacific, 1931--1941

Episode 2

Infamy! The Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor

Episode 3

Japan Moves South, December 1941--May 1942

Episode 4

The Doolittle Raid on Japan, April 1942

Episode 5

Station HYPO: Breaking the Japanese Code

Episode 6

Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942

Episode 7

Midway: 10 Minutes That Changed the War

Episode 8

Guadalcanal: Jungle Warfare

Episode 9

Ironbottom Sound, 1942--1943

Episode 10

MacArthur, Halsey, and Operation Cartwheel

Episode 11

The Big Blue Fleet and American Industry

Episode 12

Battle for Tarawa: A Square Mile of Hell

Episode 13

A Three-Front Pacific War, January--May 1944

Episode 14

The US Leaps to the Marianas, June 1944

Episode 15

Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 1944

Episode 16

Bombing Japan: Fire from the Sky

Episode 17

American Submarines in the Pacific, 1944--1945

Episode 18

MacArthur Returns to the Philippines

Episode 19

Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 1944

Episode 20

Admiral Halsey's Typhoons, 1944--1945

Episode 21

Battle for Iwo Jima, February--March 1945

Episode 22

Battle for Okinawa, April--June 1945

Episode 23

Kamikazes: Japan's Special Attack Units

Episode 24

Dropping the Atomic Bomb