ERASED: WW2's Heroes of Color

Year of production: 2023-4

4 x 1hr drama doc for Nat Geo/Disney+

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PEARL HARBOR

D-DAY

DUNKIRK

BATTLE OF THE BULGE 

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Nominated: Best New Documentary Series at the 40th Film Independent Spirit Awards 2025

Nominated: Best Non-Fiction History & Biography at the Realscreen Awards 2025

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Over 10 million people of colour fought on the Allied side, but their achievements have largely been airbrushed out of traditional narratives.  Empathetically narrated by Idris Elba, whose own grandfather served in the war, this premium box set series turns the lens on global history.  The series focuses on true-life soldiers and sailors combining meticulously sourced archive of the servicemen themselves with powerful testimony from their descendants with premium dramatization to highlight the roles these heroes played in epic theatres of Dunkirk, Pearl Harbor, D-Day and in the Battle of the Bulge.

 

This series not only enriches our understanding of these battles, it also reveals how the war experiences of people of color directly inspired post-war movements for freedom that swept the globe, from Civil Rights in America to colonial independence in India, Africa and beyond – global movements and a continuous fight for freedom that still resonate to this day.

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