3 x 47' HD In Production, due December 2010

In January 1945, as the Red Army resumed its relentless advance towards Germany, the inmates of prisoner-of-war camps in Poland were marched west towards Germany. Amongst them were thousands of British and Commonwealth soldiers, many of whom had spent over four years working in mines and factories with barely adequate sustenance.

They were ordered at gunpoint to march many hours a day through the snow and ice of a Polish winter. It was to be one of the forgotten atrocities of the Second World War.

The programme will tell, for the first time, the story of those British and Commonwealth prisoners-of-war. It will rely upon the testimony of survivors, and focus on their experiences between leaving their camps and the moment of liberation.