Season 1 (2009)

Stalingrad - 1942
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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

Trafalgar 1805
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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

Pearl Harbour
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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

The Battle of Marathon
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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

The Lost Evidence of Iwo Jima
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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

D-Day
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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

The Battle of Waterloo - 1815
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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

Chalons
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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

Battle of Hastings 1066
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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

Merrill’s Marauders
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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

The Battle of Austerlitz
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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

Gallipoli
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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

Midway
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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

The Battle of Gettysburg - 1863
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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

The Armada - 1588
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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

Battle of the Bulge
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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

The Third Crusade
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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

The battle of Alesia
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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

Cannae
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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

The Six-Day War
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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

The Battle of Britain
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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

Battle of Kadesh - Ramesses II
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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

The Battle of Agincourt
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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

The Battle of Inchon
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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

Tobruk
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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

Little Bighorn
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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

Cambrai 1917
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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

Operation Desert Storm
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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

The Great War
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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

Saratoga and The Battle of Rivoli
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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

The Battle for Berlin
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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

The Battle of El Alamein
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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

TET Ofenssive
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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

The Russo-Finnish War
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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

The Battle of Tannenberg
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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

Life in the Trenches
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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

Monte Cassino 1944
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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

Balaclava 1854
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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

Guadalcanal
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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