Remembering the End of the Second World War: 80th Anniversary
In 2025, the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War will be commemorated in Canada and internationally. Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day) was declared on May 8, 1945, following the Liberation of the Netherlands and the surrender of the German forces across Europe. Japanese forces surrendered on August 14, 1945, marking the unofficial end of the Second World War until the formal surrender documents were signed on September 2, 1945. Learn more about the final days of the war and pivotal role Canada played with these titles.


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Tony Robinson's VE Day
Minute by Minute
Liberation
the Canadians in Europe
The Best Little Army in the World
the Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945
The Good Allies
How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism During the Second World War
On to Victory
The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23May 5, 1945
The Fight for History
75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War
War at Sea
Canada and the Battle of the Atlantic
Fire and Steel
the End of World War Two in the West
Battle of the Atlantic
Gauntlet to Victory
When the Sea Came Alive
An Oral History of D-Day
Remembrance Road
a Canadian Photographer's Journey Through European Battlefields
The Road to Victory
a Dramatized Documentary of World War II Originally Broadcast May 8th, 1945
Stout Hearts
the British and Canadians in Normandy 1944
Our Finest Hour
Canada Fights the Second World War
Kingdom of Night
Witnesses to the Holocaust
One Soldier's Story, 1939-1945
From the Fall of Hong Kong to the Defeat of Japan
The Guns at Last Light
the War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
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