
Three-part documentary about the sinking of the Spanish Armada, featuring dramatic reconstructions and information gleaned from recently recovered documents. Dan Snow takes to the sea to tell the story of how England came within a whisker of disaster in summer 1588.
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Air Date: 2015-05-24
Dan Snow boards a yacht on the English channel to get a sense of the naval battle, revealing how tensions between Eng...
Air Date: 2015-05-31
Dan relives the fierce battles at sea and we go behind the scenes in the royal court of Elizabeth as the Spanish flee...
Air Date: 2015-06-07
Newly discovered documents reveal a remarkable web of misunderstandings that stopped the Spanish from invading, and s...