Introduction

Machinery of War is a 2019 military technology documentary.

Through mechanisation and industrialisation, the methods used to settle conflicts have made the art of war more hi-tech, more expensive, and more devastating than ever before.

Outline

From the beginning of the twentieth century to today, war was radically transformed.

Through mechanisation and industrialisation, the methods used to settle conflicts have made the art of war more hi-tech, more expensive, and more devastating than ever before. Violence, it seems, is the mother of invention. This six-part series explores the evolution of engineering in warfare; as glamorous cavalry units were forced from the battlefields and replaced with tanks. As artillery entered the realms of science fiction and even the infantryman became a lethal weapons system.

This mechanisation of war demanded the rapid growth of armaments factories, all competing to build weapons bigger, better, faster, and deadlier. In the twentieth century war took over the skies, biplanes evolved into drones and randomly dropped bombs into pinpoint weapons that can level entire cities. Naval combat has also been revolutionised, where the most potent weapons are now launched from the angled decks of aircraft carriers or from deep beneath the waves. From tanks to bombers, howitzers to aircraft carriers, Machinery of War features expert interviews and cutting-edge animation to help explore why these machines were created and follows their journey from the factory floor to the battlefield.

Machinery of War Series

• Episode 01: Battlefield Behemoths.
• Episode 02: Stealth Systems.
• Episode 03: Defensive Designs.
• Episode 04: Mass Movement.
• Episode 05: Accelerating Warfare.
• Episode 06: Mass Destruction.

Production & Filming Details

• Narrator(s):
  • Robert Lee.
• Director(s):
  • Chris Button.
  • Jim Wilks.
• Producer(s):
  • Chris Button … field producer (2019).
  • Michael Cove … field producer (2019).
  • Holly Trueman … series producer (2019).
  • Jim Wilks … field producer (2019).
  • Serge Ou … executive producer.
  • Harriet Pike … producer.
• Writer(s):
  • Rebecca Fleming.
  • Neil Pigot.
• Music:
• Cinematographer(s):
• Editor(s):
  • Chris Button.
  • Jim Wilks.
• Production:
  • Wildbear Entertainment.
• Distributor(s):
  • Passion Distribution (2018) (World-wide) (all media).
  • Viaplay (2020-2021) (Finland) (video) (VOD).
• Release Date: 2019.
• Rating: Unknown.
• Running Time: 50 minutes.
• Country: Australia.
• Language: English.

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