The Secrets That Won WWII - The Minehunters

Based solely on archive footages and photography, each episode in this BBC documentary series focuses in on a key topic of world war two from D-Day to Stalingrad to Germany's "secret weapons". This episode deals with one of the most feared weapons of World War II - the mine. Some were laid by ship and submarine, others by aircraft. Of all of these the most lethal was the magnetic mine, and the race to counter it was one of the most crucial of the war. Narration by British actor robert Powell.