Originally produced as a CBS News television production in 1982. Title from container.

Disc 1. Series intro --Battle of the Bulge -- Europe: The allies close in -- Extra feature: Geronimo: The Battle of the Bulge ; Disc 2. The Pacific: War begins -- Battleground Italy -- Extra Feature: Pearl Harbor: Eleven minutes of terror ; Disc 3. Invasion: the allies attack -- The war against Japan -- Extra feature: Omaha Beach ; Disc 4. The seeds of war -- The Pacific campaign -- Extras features: B-29: Touched with fire & Consumed in flames ; Disc 5. Air war over Europe -- Extra features: Allied airmen POWs of WWII & Fighter tactics 101 ; Disc 6. The eastern front -- The German high command -- Extra feature: Global war ; Disc 7. The Scandinavian and Soviet fronts -- Extra feature: The silent hunters ; Disc 8. Europe: War within a war -- Home front and victory -- Extra feature: Hitler's wonder weapons.