War Walks
War Walks | |
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Genre | Documentary |
Presented by | Professor Richard Holmes |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 2 |
No. of episodes | 12 |
Production | |
Producers | Grant Mansfield Mark Fielder |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | BBC Two |
Release | 26 July 1996 19 December 1997 | –
War Walks is a BBC documentary series presented by historian, Professor Richard Holmes. The series was about famous European battles which had British or English involvement. It included descriptions of the battles, the events leading up to them and the events resulting from them.
Episode list
Series One (1996)
- Agincourt (1415) (26 July 1996)
- Waterloo (1815) (2 August 1996)
- Mons and Le Cateau (1914) (9 August 1996)
- The Somme (1916) (16 August 1996)
- Arras (1940) (23 August 1996)
- Operation Goodwood (1944) (30 August 1996)
Series Two (1997)
- Hastings (1066) (14 November 1997)
- Bosworth Field (1485) (21 November 1997)
- Naseby (1645) (28 November 1997)
- The Boyne (1690) (5 December 1997)
- Dunkirk (1940) (12 December 1997)
- The Blitz (1940–41) (19 December 1997)
Sources
- http://homepage.eircom.net/%257Eodyssey/Quotes/History/War_Walks.html#WarWalks2
- http://www.tvfactual.co.uk/
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snyg6
External links
Categories:
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- 1996 British television series debuts
- 1997 British television series endings
- 1990s British documentary television series
- British television documentaries
- Documentary television series about war
- English-language television shows
- BBC television documentaries about history during the 20th Century
- BBC television documentaries about history during the 18th and 19th centuries
- BBC television documentaries about history during the 16th and 17th centuries
- BBC television documentaries about medieval history