
Battle Stations is a documentary series of 1 hour episodes, which uses archive footage, re-enactments and first-hand accounts from the crews, to follow the machines and technology implemented from the Second World War to the Gulf War in the land, air and sea.
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Air Date: 2000-09-25
Ride along in the thick of battle in the American M4 Sherman Tank, as it blasts its way into history and paves the wa...
Air Date: 2000-09-27
In this episode, see how it feels to be a Spitfire fighter pilot in a dogfight.
Air Date: 2000-09-28
In this episode, we fly on a Dakota, and American C47/DC3 cargo plane used to transport paratroopers across the Engli...
Air Date: 2000-09-29
Ride in the American DUKW Amphibious Vehicle (Duck to G.I.s)
Air Date: 2001-08-19
Originally built for the RAF, the USAAF's P-51 Mustang became one of the greatest fighter planes ever to be built.
Air Date: 2001-08-26
Stalin enlisted the ideas of an American engineer, J. Walter Christie, to develop one of the most formidable tanks in...
Air Date: 2001-09-16
Outlining the most audacious engineering feat of WWII.
Air Date: 2001-09-23
Enter the world of rocket scientists, secret weapons, and the race to destroy two of Hitler's most elusive weapons.
Air Date: 2001-10-07
Adolf Hitler became personally involved in the Tiger Tank, one of history's finest armoured fighting vehicles.
Air Date: 2001-11-11
The terror of being hunted by Hitler's U-boats and the bravery of crews that risked their lives to deliver men and ma...
Air Date: 2001-11-18
We take the viewer inside the cockpits of the German pilots who flew the jet-powered Messerschmitt 262 which was a wo...
Air Date: 2001-11-25
Details how one man was asked to develop a death ray, but discovered radar.
Air Date: 2001-12-16
The RAF Lancaster Bomber ranks as one of the finest aircraft of WWII.
Air Date: 2002-01-20
The Vietnam War was the Huey war-a brutal war, where the lethal Huey gunship wreaked havoc on the Viet Cong. The Huey...
Air Date: 2002-03-10
Bombing from altitudes of over 10,000 feet, the Marauder had the lowest loss rate of any Allied bomber during WWII.
Air Date: 2002-03-19
Developed from jet technology captured from the Germans after WWII, the F-86 approached speeds of Mach 1.
Air Date: 2002-04-07
The MiG 15 was one of the 20th century's most feared high-performance weapons.
Air Date: 2002-04-28
The legendary "Black Cat" squadrons won fame as night bombers in the battles of the Solomon Islands.
Air Date: 2002-09-29
The Black Hawk remains today the world's most advanced twin-turbine military helicopter and flies wherever duty calls...
Air Date: 2002-12-15
Designed in the 1950s by Kelly Johnson, the SR-71 Blackbird was the world's first stealthy aircraft, designed to over...
Air Date: 2002-12-16
Weighing in at over 27000 tons and over 800 feet in length, they were known as floating cities.
Air Date: 2002-12-26
Designed for aircraft carriers, it proved too hot to handle during deck landing.
Air Date: 2002-12-26
The race to produce the first intercontinental jet bomber.
Air Date: 2002-12-26
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Air Date: 2003-07-05
The P-38s struggle for aerial supremacy in the skies of the South West Pacific during WWII - Americas Ace of Aces.
Air Date: 2003-08-01
Featuring interviews with sailors who served on these gladiators of the sea in the often suicidal Pacific Theatre, st...
Air Date: 2003-08-15
One aircraft in the US arsenal best typifies the will to win. Using the latest and most sophisticated computerized te...
Air Date: 2003-09-15
This is the story of the young airmen of the "Mighty Eighth" and the angers they faced at 30,000 feet!
Air Date: 2003-10-24
Built to put US pilots back in charge of the skies, the F-15 Eagle proved its superiority in Desert Storm and Operati...
Air Date: 2004-02-01
Dogged by controversy, shrouded in secrecy F-117's have become the world's first truly stealth aircraft - forever cha...
Air Date: 2004-02-27
It is the most feared aircraft in the US Air Force. The A-10 Tankbuster was the first aircraft in the US aviation his...
Air Date: 2004-06-01
Powered by two Rolls Royce Merlin engines, this plane was a revolutionary design with no armour or weapons but could ...
Air Date: 2004-11-19
Developed during the Cold War, this incredible aircraft is now the most powerful and feared helicopter in the world. ...
Air Date: 2004-12-17
These boats were WWII's most heavily armed fighting boats. Screwed and glued together on a hull made of wood, they we...
Air Date: 2004-12-17
When this 60 tons of high-tech military hardware rumbles onto the battlefield there's nowhere for the enemy to hide.
Air Date: 2005-05-26
The HMS Victory would play a crucial role in the foremost naval engagement in 19th century maritime history, the Batt...
Air Date: 2005-06-26
With its origins in single wing experimentation carried out in Germany in the 1930s, and continuing through cutting e...
Air Date: 2006-04-12
The greatest machine of WWII springs into action. It is made up of thousands of ships and aircraft, tens of thousands...
Air Date: 2006-07-14
Deadly and undetectable at long range, this super-jet is the latest in fifth-generation fighter technology.
Air Date: 2006-12-15
Commissioned in 1938, the British cruiser HMS Belfast was the Royal Navy's most modern warship.