Introduction Secret Wars Uncovered peels back the curtain to illuminate some of the most controversial and important military operations since the Second World War and reveals the facts behind battles we know barely anything about. Outline In March 2019, reports arise of UK Special Boat Service troops killed in Yemen. But they should not have… Read More
Introduction Secret Wars Uncovered peels back the curtain to illuminate some of the most controversial and important military operations since the Second World War and reveals the facts behind battles we know barely anything about. Outline The annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014 was the biggest in Europe since WWII – but how did… Read More
Introduction Secret Wars Uncovered peels back the curtain to illuminate some of the most controversial and important military operations since the Second World War and reveals the facts behind battles we know barely anything about. Outline Sky History peels back the curtain to illuminate some of the most controversial and important military operations since the… Read More
Introduction Two-part documentary telling the story of the battle for control of the North Sea during the First World War. Also known as Scotland’s War at Sea. Part 01: The Dreadnoughts of Scapa Flow. Outline In April 1917, German U-boats were sinking a dozen British ships every day. The first sea lord, Jellicoe, warned that… Read More
Introduction Two-part documentary telling the story of the battle for control of the North Sea during the First World War. Also known as Scotland’s War at Sea. Part 02: The Battle of the U-Boats. Outline As the Great War began, the Royal Navy rushed to Orkney’s great natural harbour, Scapa Flow. David Hayman uncovers the… Read More
Introduction The Millionaires’ Unit is a 2015 American documentary film by Darroch Greer and Ron King about the First Yale Unit, a group of Yale college students who took the initiative to learn to fly in preparation for America’s entry into the Great War. Also known as The Millionaires’ Unit: U.S. Naval Aviators in the… Read More
Introduction A few Japanese and American survivors of the 1944 Battle of Peleliu return to this island 60 years later. Outline United States tank commander Lee Smith and platoon leader Bill Cumbaa return to the island of Peleliu in the Pacific Theatre 60 years after their W.W. II battle to meet former enemies Tsuchida Kiyokazu… Read More
Introduction The War Game is a 1966 British pseudo-documentary film that depicts a nuclear war and its aftermath. Written, directed and produced by Peter Watkins for the BBC, it caused dismay within the BBC and also within government, and was subsequently withdrawn before the provisional screening date of 07 October 1965. The corporation said that… Read More
Introduction Historian Dan Jones tells the story of Roman Britain though six walks along the roads they built – from the point of their invasion to the farthest edge of their empire. Outline Dan Jones travels along Stane Street, which runs 67 miles from London to Chichester, and discovers what lead the Romans to abandon… Read More
Introduction Historian Dan Jones tells the story of Roman Britain though six walks along the roads they built – from the point of their invasion to the farthest edge of their empire. Outline Dan Jones travels the historic Roman road of Ermin Way, which links the two Roman towns of Calleva Atrebatum and Glevum, now… Read More
