July 2, 2009 • 50m
A series giving a bird's-eye view of some of the bloodiest battles in history. This programme looks at a pivotal point of the Seco...Read more
July 2, 2009 • 48m
Trafalgar is perhaps the most famous naval engagement in military history. Admiral Lord Nelson's victory over a combined fleet of ...Read more
July 2, 2009 • 49m
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against...Read more
July 2, 2009 • 43m
The Battle of Marathon was an armed confrontation that defined the outcome of the first medical war. It happened in the year 490 a...Read more
July 2, 2009 • 45m
The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945) was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and United ...Read more
July 9, 2009 • 55m
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasio...Read more
July 16, 2009 • 48m
Series giving a bird's-eye view of some of the bloodiest battles in history. This edition looks at how Wellington's positioning of...Read more
July 23, 2009 • 21m
The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (or Fields), also called the Battle of the Campus Mauriacus, Battle of Châlons, Battle of Tro...Read more
July 30, 2009 • 21m
Documentary series giving a close-up view of some of the bloodiest battles in history. This edition examines the meeting of Harold...Read more
August 6, 2009 • 44m
Merrill’s Marauders (named after Frank Merrill) or Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), was a U...Read more
August 13, 2009 • 48m
The Battle of Austerlitz (2 December 1805/11 Frimaire An XIV FRC), also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of the ...Read more
August 20, 2009 • 48m
During World War I (1914-1918), French, British, and allied forces (Australian, New Zealand, Newfoundland, Irish and Indian) fough...Read more
August 27, 2009 • 45m
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place from 4–7 June 1942, six month...Read more
September 3, 2009 • 48m
Series giving a close-up view of some of the bloodiest battles in history. This edition focuses on the three-day bloodbath at Gett...Read more
September 10, 2009 • 52m
The English Armada (Spanish: Invencible) known as the Counter Armada or the Drake–Norris Expedition, was an attack fleet sent agai...Read more
September 17, 2009 • 48m
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front d...Read more
September 24, 2009 • 48m
The Third Crusade (1189–1192) was an attempt led by three European monarchs of Western Christianity (Philip II of France, Richard ...Read more
October 1, 2009 • 21m
The battle of Alesia or siege of Alesia (September 52 BC) was the climactic military engagement of the Gallic Wars, fought around ...Read more
October 8, 2009 • 21m
The Battle of Cannae was a key engagement of the Second Punic War between the Roman Republic and Carthage, fought on 2 August 216 ...Read more
October 15, 2009 • 48m
A series giving a close-up view of various battles in history. This edition recalls the crisis in the Middle East in June 1967, wh...Read more
October 22, 2009 • 49m
The Battle of Britain (The air battle for England), was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force ...Read more
October 29, 2009 • 43m
The Battle of Kadesh or Battle of Qadesh took place between the forces of the New Kingdom of Egypt under Ramesses II and the Hitti...Read more
November 5, 2009 • 48m
The Battle of Agincourt was an English victory in the Hundred Years' War. It took place on 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin's Day) n...Read more
November 12, 2009 • 21m
The Battle of Inchon, also spelled Battle of Incheon, was an amphibious invasion and a battle of the Korean War that resulted in a...Read more
November 19, 2009 • 25m
The Siege of Tobruk was a siege imposed by the Axis Forces for 240 days on the town-fortress and Allied port of Tobruk in 1941, in...Read more
November 26, 2009 • 48m
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and commonly ref...Read more
December 3, 2009 • 49m
The Battle of Cambrai (Battle of Cambrai, 1917 was a British attack in the First World War, followed by the biggest German counter...Read more
December 10, 2009 • 43m
The Gulf War was a 1990–1991 armed campaign waged by a 39-country military coalition in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait....Read more
December 17, 2009 • 47m
World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global co...Read more
December 24, 2009 • 43m
The Battles of Saratoga (September 19 and October 7, 1777) marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory t...Read more
December 31, 2009 • 44m
The Battle of Berlin, designated as the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Be...Read more
January 7, 2010 • 48m
A series giving a bird's-eye view of some of the bloodiest battles in history. This edition looks at the crucial battle of El Alam...Read more
January 14, 2010 • 44m
The Tet Offensive was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. It was launched on January ...Read more
January 21, 2010 • 1h 44m
The Winter War, also known as the First Soviet-Finnish War, was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. The war began with a S...Read more
January 28, 2010 • 45m
The Battle of Tannenberg, also known as the Second Battle of Tannenberg, was fought between Russia and Germany between 23 and 30 A...Read more
February 4, 2010 • 54m
Between two battles, life in the trenches was very hard for the combatants of the First World War, who, in addition to the hardshi...Read more
February 11, 2010 • 49m
The Battle of Monte Cassino, also known as the Battle for Rome and the Battle for Cassino, was a series of four military assaults ...Read more
February 18, 2010 • 48m
The Battle of Balaclava, fought on 25 October 1854 during the Crimean War, was part of the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55), an Allie...Read more
February 25, 2010 • 48m
The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by American forces, was a mil...Read more