A series profiling key campaigns and battles in military history.

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...

Trafalgar is perhaps the most famous naval engagement in military history. Admiral Lord Nelson's victory over a combined fleet of French and Spanish...

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...

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...

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...

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in...

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...

The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (or Fields), also called the Battle of the Campus Mauriacus, Battle of Châlons, Battle of Troyes or the...

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...

Merrill’s Marauders (named after Frank Merrill) or Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), was a United States...

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...

During World War I (1914-1918), French, British, and allied forces (Australian, New Zealand, Newfoundland, Irish and Indian) fought the Gallipoli...

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...

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...

The English Armada (Spanish: Invencible) known as the Counter Armada or the Drake–Norris Expedition, was an attack fleet sent against Spain by...

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 Third Crusade (1189–1192) was an attempt led by three European monarchs of Western Christianity (Philip II of France, Richard I of England...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Battles of Saratoga (September 19 and October 7, 1777) marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by American forces, was a military campaign...