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20th Century Battlefields : Season 1
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Air date: 04 Jun '07 - 8 episodes20th Century Battlefields is a BBC documentary television series hosted by television and radio personality Peter Snow, and his son Dan Snow. Episodes cover the major battles of the twentieth century, and is best known for its extensive use of "sand table" CGI effects to help viewers visualize the battles.
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List of Episodes (8)
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20th Century Battlefields (2007)
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1. 1918 Western Front
04 Jun '07Peter and Dan travel to the Western Front in France to investigate the battle that gave Britain and its allies decisive victory in World War One - Amiens.
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2. 1942 Midway
11 Jun '07Peter and Dan explore a pivotal engagement in the war in the Pacific, when the fates of the US and Japanese navies were decided in just a few brief minutes.
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3. 1942 Stalingrad
18 Jun '07Peter and Dan go to Russia to retell one of the most epic battles of World War Two, when the German and Soviet armies fought bitterly for every inch of Stalin's city.
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4. 1951 Korea
25 Jun '07Peter and Dan examine the two most important engagements of the Korean War - a fascinating but largely forgotten conflict from the earliest days of the Cold War.
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5. 1968 Vietnam
02 Jul '07Peter and Dan explore the Tet Offensive, a turning point in the Vietnam War that precipitated a huge change in American public opinion.
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6. 1973 Middle East
09 Jul '07Of the many conflicts between Israel and the Arab nations of the Middle East, the war in October 1973 was one of the most crucial, as Peter and Dan discover.
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20th Century Battlefields (2007)
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7. 1982 Falklands
16 Jul '07Peter and Dan travel to the Falklands to explore the last battle on British soil, twenty-five years after the war to recapture the islands from Argentina.
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8. 1991 Gulf
23 Jul '07Peter and Dan examine the United Nations-backed war to remove the forces of Saddam Hussein's Iraq from Kuwait.
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