Why Germany Kept Bombing the North East Coast

On the morning of 16 December 1914, three German warships shelled the Hartlepools for 40 minutes, and the army had been secretly warned the night before. This documentary follows that morning shell by shell, then traces the same pattern into the Second World War, when West Hartlepool and Sunderland were bombed because of what their rivers built. Viewers learn why Britain's home front began on the North East coast, not in 1940 London.