Commemoration synonymous with programming. This Friday, May 8 marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe.

Live ceremonies, documentaries and fiction, TV channels put out the big guns for the event. Our selection.

MondayWhat? The documentary The Spy in tables at 23:45 on France 3.

For who? Those who feel that the great history can not demonstrate that through small stories.What one recounts ... Cate Blanchett performed near the character of his in The Monuments Men. Assistant at the Jeu de Paume museum, rose valland followed the track of the works stolen by the Nazis from their Jewish owners. Careful portrait of a heroine too discreet, recognized in the United States, hitherto forgotten in France.

TuesdayWhat? The documentary trilogy Stalingrad at 22:50 on France 2, continuation and end at 10:40 p.m. on Friday.

For who? Those too skipped school geo history.What they say it ... Hitler vs. Stalin. Philippe Torreton tells the greatest battle in history - 1.2 million people in three months - through archive footage. Red thread, the story of the Soviet writer Vasily Grossman, a war correspondent.

WednesdayWhat? The Big Little Bauer documentary at 20:40 on history.

For who? The radiophiles, jazz fans and comic book lovers.What they say it ... The Trojan Franck Bauer 21 when he arrived in a London devastated by the Blitz after the armistice of 22 June 1940. The war is going to throw this jazz fan in front of a microphone, that of Radio London, programmed on the BBC. The former speaker says mischievously his war years in drawings of the great Floc'h.

ThursdayWhat? The Great Escape at 20:50 on France 3.

For who? Film fans and those behind bars.What we will tell ... In 1943, the Allied officers, repeat the escape are monitored closely in a Stalag. The prisoners decided to organize a mass escape! In the tunnel, any exceptional host of stars: Steeve McQueen, Donald Pleasance, Charles Bronson, James Coburn and Richard Attenborough. A timeless classic.

FridayWhat? The TV movie Alias ​​Caracalla, in the heart of the Resistance at 20:50 on Arte.

For who? The fanatics, idealists and those who have lost their ideals.What they say it ... "Royalist, Maurrassian and anti-Semitic," Daniel, 20 year old student, was not the usual profile resistant. Repulsed by the Armistice and the betrayal of Pétain, he enlisted in England almost by chance alongside an unknown general De Gaulle. Back in occupied France, he became the secretary of a man named Rex, who was none other than ... Jean Moulin. Itinerary of a fanatic, became indignant.

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