S01E01 Stalingrad - 1942
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 Second World War, when the Russian army stopped the Nazi advance at...
Great Battles in History
S01E19: Cannae
The Battle of Cannae was a key engagement of the Second Punic War between the Roman Republic and Carthage, fought on 2 August 216 BC near the ancient village of Cannae in Apulia, southeast Italy. The Carthaginians and their allies, led by Hannibal, surrounded and practically annihilated a larger Roman and Italian army under the consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro. It is regarded as one of the greatest tactical feats in military history and one of the worst defeats in Roman history.
Overview
Great Battles in History are film documentaries that show historical battlefields presented in an animated environment.
Episodes
S01E02 Trafalgar 1805
Trafalgar is perhaps the most famous naval engagement in military history. Admiral Lord Nelson's victory over a combined fleet of French and Spanish ships put an end to Napoleon's dream of invading England. Follow the...
S01E03 Pearl Harbour
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, just before 8:00...
S01E04 The Battle of Marathon
The Battle of Marathon was an armed confrontation that defined the outcome of the first medical war. It happened in the year 490 a. C. and took place in the fields and the beach of...
S01E05 The Lost Evidence of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945) was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and United States Navy (USN) landed on and eventually captured the island...
S01E06 D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred...
S01E07 The Battle of Waterloo - 1815
Series giving a bird's-eye view of some of the bloodiest battles in history. This edition looks at how Wellington's positioning of his men out of the line of fire broke with centuries of military tradition...
S01E08 Chalons
The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (or Fields), also called the Battle of the Campus Mauriacus, Battle of Châlons, Battle of Troyes or the Battle of Maurica, took place on June 20, 451 AD, between...
S01E09 Battle of Hastings 1066
Documentary series giving a close-up view of some of the bloodiest battles in history. This edition examines the meeting of Harold and William the Conqueror at Hastings in 1066, which changed the Anglo-Saxon world for...
S01E10 Merrill’s Marauders
Merrill’s Marauders (named after Frank Merrill) or Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), was a United States Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit, which fought in the Southeast Asian...
S01E11 The Battle of Austerlitz
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 most important and decisive engagements of the Napoleonic Wars. The battle...
S01E12 Gallipoli
During World War I (1914-1918), French, British, and allied forces (Australian, New Zealand, Newfoundland, Irish and Indian) fought the Gallipoli campaign (1915-1916) in and near the peninsula, seeking to secure a sea route to relieve...
S01E13 Midway
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 months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month...
S01E14 The Battle of Gettysburg - 1863
Series giving a close-up view of some of the bloodiest battles in history. This edition focuses on the three-day bloodbath at Gettysburg which was a turning point in the American Civil War.
S01E15 The Armada - 1588
The English Armada (Spanish: Invencible) known as the Counter Armada or the Drake–Norris Expedition, was an attack fleet sent against Spain by Queen Elizabeth I of England that sailed on 28 April 1589 during the...
S01E16 Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. The battle lasted for five weeks from 16 December...
S01E17 The Third Crusade
The Third Crusade (1189–1192) was an attempt led by three European monarchs of Western Christianity (Philip II of France, Richard I of England and Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor) to reconquer the Holy Land following...
S01E18 The battle of Alesia
The battle of Alesia or siege of Alesia (September 52 BC) was the climactic military engagement of the Gallic Wars, fought around the Gallic oppidum (fortified settlement) of Alesia in modern France, a major centre...
S01E19 Cannae
The Battle of Cannae was a key engagement of the Second Punic War between the Roman Republic and Carthage, fought on 2 August 216 BC near the ancient village of Cannae in Apulia, southeast Italy....
S01E20 The Six-Day War
A series giving a close-up view of various battles in history. This edition recalls the crisis in the Middle East in June 1967, when tension on three borders escalated into a full-scale war between Israel...
S01E21 The Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain (The air battle for England), was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy...
S01E22 Battle of Kadesh - Ramesses II
The Battle of Kadesh or Battle of Qadesh took place between the forces of the New Kingdom of Egypt under Ramesses II and the Hittite Empire under Muwatalli II at the city of Kadesh on...
S01E23 The Battle of Agincourt
The Battle of Agincourt was an English victory in the Hundred Years' War. It took place on 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin's Day) near Azincourt, in northern France.[b] The unexpected English victory against the numerically...
S01E24 The Battle of Inchon
The Battle of Inchon, also spelled Battle of Incheon, was an amphibious invasion and a battle of the Korean War that resulted in a decisive victory and strategic reversal in favor of the United Nations...
S01E25 Tobruk
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 the context of World War II. The siege began...
S01E26 Little Bighorn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined...
S01E27 Cambrai 1917
The Battle of Cambrai (Battle of Cambrai, 1917 was a British attack in the First World War, followed by the biggest German counter-attack against the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) since 1914.
S01E28 Operation Desert Storm
The Gulf War was a 1990–1991 armed campaign waged by a 39-country military coalition in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Spearheaded by the United States, the coalition's efforts against Iraq were carried out...
S01E29 The Great War
World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. It was fought between two coalitions, the...
S01E30 Saratoga and The Battle of Rivoli
The Battles of Saratoga (September 19 and October 7, 1777) marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. British General John...
S01E31 The Battle for Berlin
The Battle of Berlin, designated as the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was one of the last major offensives of the European theatre of...
S01E32 The Battle of El Alamein
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 Alamein in 1942, a victory which stopped Rommel's Afrika Korps in its...
S01E33 TET Ofenssive
The Tet Offensive was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. It was launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese...
S01E34 The Russo-Finnish War
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 Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after...
S01E35 The Battle of Tannenberg
The Battle of Tannenberg, also known as the Second Battle of Tannenberg, was fought between Russia and Germany between 23 and 30 August 1914, the first month of World War I. The battle resulted in...
S01E36 Life in the Trenches
Between two battles, life in the trenches was very hard for the combatants of the First World War, who, in addition to the hardships, the lack of hygiene, the rain, the lice and the rats,...
S01E37 Monte Cassino 1944
The Battle of Monte Cassino, also known as the Battle for Rome and the Battle for Cassino, was a series of four military assaults made by the Allies against German forces in Italy during the...
S01E38 Balaclava 1854
The Battle of Balaclava, fought on 25 October 1854 during the Crimean War, was part of the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55), an Allied attempt to capture the port and fortress of Sevastopol, Russia's principal naval...
S01E39 Guadalcanal
The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by American forces, was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island...
