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Kit Harington, Keira Knightley, Toby Jones and Emeli Sandé explore their families’ pasts.
In its second season, MY GRANDPARENTS' WAR takes another journey into the past to understand the extraordinary impact of global conflict on the families of four international stars. Across four episodes, Kit Harington, Keira Knightley, Toby Jones and Emeli Sandé each explore their family’s unique stories, retracing their grandparents’ footsteps during the events that changed their lives forever.
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Original production funding for Season 2 of MY GRANDPARENTS' WAR was provided, in part, by MyHeritage and PBS viewers.
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Season 2 Official Preview
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In its second season, MY GRANDPARENTS' WAR takes another journey into the past to understand the extraordinary impact of global conflict on the families of four international stars. Across four episodes, Kit Harington, Keira Knightley, Toby Jones and Emeli Sandé each explore their family’s unique stories, retracing their grandparents’ footsteps during the events that changed their lives forever.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship-Millions of our grandparents were caught up in conflicts that shaped the 20th century.
-"We'd finally been released.
"I was only about seven stone by this time.
"I'd thought we were all going to die."
Oh, God!
Yeah, it gets you, doesn't it?
-It does.
-It does.
It really does.
-Now, four international stars retrace their family footsteps across the globe.
-Granddad was sitting with a gun with instructions to shoot.
That must been very difficult for my granddad.
That's going against every fatherly instinct.
They uncover their grandparents' extraordinary stories.
-Your grandmother was here in one of the most historic moments of the 20th century.
-Oh my goodness.
I never knew that.
-So my grandfather's job was to keep an eye on Edward the abdicated king?
-Yes.
He's MI-5 and MI-6.
-You can categorically say that my grandfather was a spy?
-He absolutely was a spy.
-[laughs] What was she doing at a castle?
[laughs] Why are we at a castle?
-I mean, that's mind-blowing.
That's her voice.
-They discover how their grandparents' experiences of war changed their own lives.
-We are memories passed down, experiences passed down.
Those traumas, those joys of his life, live in me somewhere.
-That's what you pass on to your grandchildren, that surviving spirit.
God, it's really got me.
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Preview: S2 | 1m 35s | Kit Harington, Keira Knightley, Toby Jones and Emeli Sandé explore their families’ pasts. (1m 35s)
Emeli Sandé’s Parents Share Her Grandparents’ War Stories
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Clip: S2 Ep4 | 2m 41s | Emeli Sandé’s grandparents fought on both sides of the African independence movement. (2m 41s)
Emeli Sandé's Grandfather Lived Through Zambian Apartheid
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Clip: S2 Ep4 | 3m 15s | Emeli Sandé learns about the apartheid era when her grandfather mined copper in Zambia. (3m 15s)
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Preview: S2 Ep4 | 32s | Emeli Sandé explores her grandparents’ remarkable stories of wartime courage. (32s)
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Preview: S2 Ep3 | 32s | Actor Toby Jones uncovers the remarkable World War II stories of his grandparents. (32s)
Toby Jones Learns About WWII’s Impact on His Family
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Clip: S2 Ep3 | 2m 33s | Toby Jones learns how the war impacted his grandfather’s relationship with his family. (2m 33s)
Actor Toby Jones Is Following In His Grandmother’s Footsteps
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Clip: S2 Ep3 | 3m 5s | Toby Jones visits the very stage his grandmother performed on in Northern France in 1940. (3m 5s)
What Keira Knightley’s Grandmother Did to Prepare for D-Day
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Clip: S2 Ep2 | 3m 20s | Keira Knightley learns her grandmother played an important role in D-Day preparations. (3m 20s)
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Preview: S2 Ep2 | 32s | Actress Keira Knightley learns new stories of her grandparents’ amazing wartime feats. (32s)
How Keira Knightley’s Great-Uncle Survived as a POW
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Clip: S2 Ep2 | 3m 13s | Keira Knightley’s cousin shares the story of his father’s ordeal as a POW. (3m 13s)
Was Kit Harington’s Grandfather the Inspiration for Bond?
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Clip: S2 Ep1 | 2m 56s | Kit Harington learns his grandfather knew James Bond author Ian Fleming during WWII. (2m 56s)
The Spy Who Was Kit Harington’s Grandfather
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Clip: S2 Ep1 | 2m 44s | Kit Harington discovers his grandfather’s record as a British spy during WWII. (2m 44s)
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Preview: S2 Ep1 | 32s | Actor Kit Harington discovers the lengths his grandparents went to for love and country. (32s)
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Original production funding for Season 2 of MY GRANDPARENTS' WAR was provided, in part, by MyHeritage and PBS viewers.
A production of Wonderhood Studios for Channel 4 Television, in association with The WNET Group.