The Warship: Tour of Duty (2023): S01E06 – It’s Not Over Till It’s Over

Introduction A 6-part documentary series covering the Royal Navy Carrier Strike Group deployment (May 2021 to December 2021) broadcast from Sunday 22 January 2023 at 9pm on BBC Two. Film-maker Chris Terrill (left picture) was on board HMS Queen Elizabeth for the whole deployment. Outline As the ships nears the end of her deployment, disaster… Read More

The Warship: Tour of Duty (2023): S01E05 – Neptune’s Kingdom

Introduction A 6-part documentary series covering the Royal Navy Carrier Strike Group deployment (May 2021 to December 2021) broadcast from Sunday 22 January 2023 at 9pm on BBC Two. Film-maker Chris Terrill (left picture) was on board HMS Queen Elizabeth for the whole deployment. Outline HMS Queen Elizabeth joins with allied warships for a display… Read More

The Warship: Tour of Duty (2023): S01E04 – Pride of the Fleet

Introduction A 6-part documentary series covering the Royal Navy Carrier Strike Group deployment (May 2021 to December 2021) broadcast from Sunday 22 January 2023 at 9pm on BBC Two. Film-maker Chris Terrill (left picture) was on board HMS Queen Elizabeth for the whole deployment. Outline HMS Queen Elizabeth reaches the South China Sea to find… Read More

The Warship: Tour of Duty (2023): S01E03 – The Enemy Within

Introduction A 6-part documentary series covering the Royal Navy Carrier Strike Group deployment (May 2021 to December 2021) broadcast from Sunday 22 January 2023 at 9pm on BBC Two. Film-maker Chris Terrill (left picture) was on board HMS Queen Elizabeth for the whole deployment. Outline HMS Queen Elizabeth reaches the Red Sea when a sinister… Read More

The Warship: Tour of Duty (2023): S01E02 – Troubled Waters

Introduction A 6-part documentary series covering the Royal Navy Carrier Strike Group deployment (May 2021 to December 2021) broadcast from Sunday 22 January 2023 at 9pm on BBC Two. Film-maker Chris Terrill (left picture) was on board HMS Queen Elizabeth for the whole deployment. Outline The warship, heading into the eastern Mediterranean, antagonises the Russian… Read More

The Warship: Tour of Duty (2023): S01E01 – For Queen and Country

Introduction A 6-part documentary series covering the Royal Navy Carrier Strike Group deployment (May 2021 to December 2021) broadcast from Sunday 22 January 2023 at 9pm on BBC Two. Film-maker Chris Terrill (left picture) was on board HMS Queen Elizabeth for the whole deployment. Outline HMS Queen Elizabeth sets off for on her first operational… Read More

The Warship: Tour of Duty Documentary Series Overview (2023)

Introduction A 6-part documentary series covering the Royal Navy Carrier Strike Group deployment (May 2021 to December 2021) broadcast from Sunday 22 January 2023 at 9pm on BBC Two. Film-maker Chris Terrill (left picture) was on board HMS Queen Elizabeth for the whole deployment. Outline The exciting, surprising and moving story of navy life on… Read More

The Final Countdown (1980)

Introduction The Final Countdown is a 1980 American alternate-history science-fiction war film about a modern nuclear-powered-aircraft carrier that travels through time to the day before the 07 December 1941, attack on Pearl Harbour. Produced by Peter Vincent Douglas and Lloyd Kaufman (founder of Troma Entertainment) and directed by Don Taylor, the film contains an ensemble… Read More

Battle 360° (2008): S01E10 – The Empire’s Last Stand

Introduction Battle 360°, also written as Battle 360, is an American documentary television series. Outline The Enterprise engages in successful operations in the South China Sea, Iwo Jima and Okinawa and its string of luck continues even with the introduction of Kamikazes. But Enterprise finishes the war in port after a single kamikaze destroys its… Read More

Battle 360° (2008): S01E09 – Battle of Leyte Gulf

Introduction Battle 360°, also written as Battle 360, is an American documentary television series. Outline As American forces prepare to invade the Philippines the Japanese, now deficient in aircraft carriers and planes, change tactics to disrupt American amphibious landings with their massive battleships and use their aircraft carriers as decoys. The ruse leads to history’s… Read More