October 4, 2003
The story of Custer's last stand is legendary. The Seventh Cavalry fought heroically against a horde of Indian warriors. The scale...Read more
October 11, 2003
Researchers use satellite technology and archaelological finds to unearth the truth about what happened at Balaklava during the mo...Read more
October 18, 2003
Historians show how bad maps and worse intelligence produced the catastrophe of Gallipoli in 1915, and geologists reveal how terra...Read more
October 25, 2003 • 1h
The sinking of the Spanish Armada in the summer of 1588 has been attributed to English heroism, Spanish incompetence, and bad weat...Read more
November 8, 2003
The sleuths set out to establish whether William the Conqueror's victory over King Harold at Hastings was really due to his leader...Read more
November 9, 2003
In episode 6, Battlefield Detectives: Massacre at Waterloo asks - was there more to Napoleon's defeat than the tactics and fightin...Read more
November 23, 2003
Medieval warfare specialists investigate how terrain affected the way the 15th-century Battle of Agincourt was waged, what the rar...Read more
December 13, 2003
New research shows that Britain's most famous naval triumph, th 1805 Battle of Trafalgar, was anything but inevitable. Far from ex...Read more
December 27, 2003
Veterans from both sides explain how state-of-the-art weaponry and a huge budget failed to overcome the morale and inventiveness o...Read more
January 1, 1970
Episode 10 of Season 1 premiered on January 1, 1970
January 1, 1970
The Battle of Monmouth took place on 28th June, 1778 in rural New Jersey. It was a key moment in the Revolutionary War between G...Read more
January 1, 1970
Episode 12 of Season 1 premiered on January 1, 1970
January 1, 1970
Episode 13 of Season 1 premiered on January 1, 1970
January 1, 1970
Episode 14 of Season 1 premiered on January 1, 1970
January 1, 1970
Episode 15 of Season 1 premiered on January 1, 1970
January 1, 1970
Episode 16 of Season 1 premiered on January 1, 1970
January 1, 1970
Just days before Christmas 1944, a quarter of a million German troops launched a shattering offensive through the Ardennes. Alli...Read more
January 1, 1970
For four long months during the summer of 1940, the RAF and the German Luftwaffe fought an epic battle in the blue skies and over ...Read more
January 1, 1970
Episode 19 of Season 1 premiered on January 1, 1970
December 5, 2005
Two thousands years ago, Jewish freedom fighters defied the Roman legions at Masada for three years, choosing death over slavery. ...Read more
January 1, 1970
The Battle of Jutland between Britain and Germany was the largest naval action of all time. It was a confrontation that the Britis...Read more
January 1, 1970
Episode 22 of Season 1 premiered on January 1, 1970
January 1, 1970
Dawn on the 6th June, 1944. The largest invasion in history is underway. Four miles to the west of the Allied landings at Omaha Be...Read more
January 1, 1970
Before dawn on Sunday April 6th 1862, shots rang out near Shiloh, on the west bank of the Tennessee River. A Confederate army had ...Read more
January 1, 1970
Episode 25 of Season 1 premiered on January 1, 1970
December 30, 2005
In 1967 the tension in the Middle East had neared boiling point. Border incidents between Israel and Syria, Egypt, and Jordan had ...Read more
January 1, 1970
Episode 27 of Season 1 premiered on January 1, 1970
January 1, 1970
Far from being the final step in the conquest of the USSR, Stalingrad proved a bloodbath. Half a million Germans were killed and ...Read more
January 1, 1970
Episode 29 of Season 1 premiered on January 1, 1970
November 12, 2004
Operation Market Garden was a daring Allied plan to drive deep behind enemy lines into German held Holland. The intention is to en...Read more