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Battlefield Detectives — Storyline

Battlefield Detectives is a forensic documentary television series that aired on the History Channel from 2003 to 2006. The series explores famous battles focusing on the battlefield itself, and tell its story based on recent scientific research. It uses modern science to examine how the battles were won or lost.

According to History Television, "This series approaches the perennially interesting topic of famous battles in a fresh and exhilarating way. Focusing on the battlefield itself, each programme takes an important battle telling its story and posing a puzzling central question about the battle that recent scientific research is helping to illuminate – a contemporary journey of discovery and a compelling story from the past."

Cast & Crew

Battlefield Detectives — Series Details

Battlefield Detectives — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: Custer's Last Stand (2003-10-04) — The story of Custer's last stand is legendary. The Seventh Cavalry fought heroically against a horde of Indian warriors. The scale of the defeat, and its many unanswered questions
• E2: The Charge of the Light Brigade (2003-10-11) — Researchers use satellite technology and archaelological finds to unearth the truth about what happened at Balaklava during the most celebrated battle of the Crimean War. How disas
• E3: The Gallipoli Disaster (2003-10-18) — Historians show how bad maps and worse intelligence produced the catastrophe of Gallipoli in 1915, and geologists reveal how terrain won the battle for the Turks and lost it for th
• E4: What Sank The Armada? (2003-10-25) — The sinking of the Spanish Armada in the summer of 1588 has been attributed to English heroism, Spanish incompetence, and bad weather. Now archaeologists are working with oceanogra
• E5: Who Got Lucky at Hastings? (2003-11-08) — The sleuths set out to establish whether William the Conqueror's victory over King Harold at Hastings was really due to his leadership and the Normans' modern methods of fighting.
• E6: Massacre at Waterloo (2003-11-09) — In episode 6, Battlefield Detectives: Massacre at Waterloo asks – was there more to Napoleon's defeat than the tactics and fighting prowess of the Allies?

  Waterloo has always been

• E7: Agincourt's Dark Secrets (2003-11-23) — Medieval warfare specialists investigate how terrain affected the way the 15th-century Battle of Agincourt was waged, what the rare battlefield artifacts tell us, and just what hap
• E8: Trafalgar's Fatal Flaw (2003-12-13) — New research shows that Britain's most famous naval triumph, th 1805 Battle of Trafalgar, was anything but inevitable. Far from executing a carefully developed plan, Nelson sailed
• E9: Vietnam's Bloody Secret (2003-12-27) — Veterans from both sides explain how state-of-the-art weaponry and a huge budget failed to overcome the morale and inventiveness of teh communist forces. Experts show how America n
• E10: Native American Wars: The Apache — For centuries, the North American Apache tribes enjoyed remarkable success on the battlefield—overpowering opponents who were wealthier, better armed, and more organized.

  This rev

• E11: American Revolution: Battle of Monmouth — The Battle of Monmouth took place on 28th June, 1778 in rural New Jersey. It was a key moment in the Revolutionary War between

  Great Britain and her thirteen rebellious colonies,

• E12: World War One: The Somme — The Soldiers have been told to expect only minimal resistance. The huge attack was supposed to overwhelm the Germans, instead it is a catastrophe of unprecedented proportions. In o
• E13: The Mexican-American War: Battle of Palo Alto
• E14: American Revolution: Battle of Cowpens
• E15: The Civil War: Gettysburg
• E16: The Civil War: Antietam
• E17: Battle of the Bulge — Just days before Christmas 1944, a quarter of a million German troops launched a shattering offensive through the Ardennes.

  Allied troops were taken completely off guard. They th

• E18: Battle of Britain — For four long months during the summer of 1940, the RAF and the German Luftwaffe fought an epic battle in the blue skies and over the green fields of south east England.

  The Battl

• E19: American Revoluton: Oriskany
• E20: Siege of Masada (2005-12-05) — Two thousands years ago, Jewish freedom fighters defied the Roman legions at Masada for three years, choosing death over slavery. Or did they?

  We join a team of experts as they us

• E21: World War One: Jutland — The Battle of Jutland between Britain and Germany was the largest naval action of all time. It was a confrontation that the British wanted. An opportunity to unleash their lethal s
• E22: The War of 1812: The Chesapeake and the Shannon
• E23: Pointe du Hoc — Dawn on the 6th June, 1944. The largest invasion in history is underway. Four miles to the west of the Allied landings at Omaha Beach, a flotilla of landing craft head towards Hitl
• E24: The Civil War: Shiloh — Before dawn on Sunday April 6th 1862, shots rang out near Shiloh, on the west bank of the Tennessee River. A Confederate army had launched a surprise attack on their unsuspecting U
• E25: Siege of Alesia
• E26: The Six Day War (2005-12-30) — In 1967 the tension in the Middle East had neared boiling point. Border incidents between Israel and Syria, Egypt, and Jordan had increased massively during the early 1960s, with P
• E27: Big Hole
• E28: Stalingrad — Far from being the final step in the conquest of the USSR, Stalingrad proved a bloodbath. Half a million Germans were killed and almost three times as many Russians lost their liv
• E29: The Battle Of Jutland
• E31: Operation Market Garden (2004-11-12) — Operation Market Garden was a daring Allied plan to drive deep behind enemy lines into German held Holland. The intention is to end the Second World War by Christmas. But far from

Season 2

• E1: World War II: Operation Market Garden (2004-11-12) — Operation Market Garden was a daring Allied plan to drive deep behind enemy lines into German held Holland. The intention is to end the Second World War by Christmas. But far from
• E2: Native American Wars: The Apache (2004-11-19) — For centuries, the North American Apache tribes enjoyed remarkable success on the battlefield—overpowering opponents who were wealthier, better armed, and more organized. This reve
• E3: American Revolution: Battle of Monmouth (2004-11-26) — The Battle of Monmouth took place on 28th June, 1778 in rural New Jersey. It was a key moment in the Revolutionary War between Great Britain and her thirteen rebellious colonies, a
• E4: World War I: The Somme (2004-12-03) — The Soldiers have been told to expect only minimal resistance. The huge attack was supposed to overwhelm the Germans, instead it is a catastrophe of unprecedented proportions. In o
• E5: Mexican–American War: Battle of Palo Alto (2004-12-10) — On May 8th 1846 the armies of Mexico and the United States met in battle at a place called Palo Alto, near Brownsville, deep in Southern Texas. The two countries had been anticipat
• E6: American Revolution: Battle of Cowpens (2004-12-17) — The Battle of Cowpens was one of the most critical battles of the American Revolution. It was a signpost and it pointed directly to Yorktown where the British would finally surrend
• E7: Civil War: Battle of Gettysburg (2004-12-20) — July 1-3, 1863: Over three hot days, Union and Confederate forces clashed in and around a small Pennsylvania town. When the Battle of Gettysburg ended, the two exhausted sides had
• E8: Civil War: Battle of Antietam (2004-12-20) — General Robert E. Lee's first invasion into the North ended in the Battle of Antietam–the bloodiest single day in the Civil War–and in all US history. Just 12 hours of fighting r

Season 3

• E1: Battle of the Bulge (2005-11-14) — Just days before Christmas 1944, a quarter of a million German troops launched a shattering offensive through the Ardennes. Allied troops were taken completely off guard. They thou
• E2: Battle of Britain (2005-11-21) — For four long months during the summer of 1940, the RAF and the German Luftwaffe fought an epic battle in the blue skies and over the green fields of south east England. The Battle
• E3: The Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo (2005-11-28) — The Battle of Waterloo was the final engagement of the Napoleonic Wars. The French Imperial Army under the command of Napoleon I was defeated by two armies of the Seventh Coalition
• E4: Siege of Masada (2005-12-05) — Two thousands years ago, Jewish freedom fighters defied the Roman legions at Masada for three years, choosing death over slavery. Or did they? We join a team of experts as they use
• E5: American Revoluton: Oriskany (2005-12-05) — The Battle of Oriskany was a massacre. Four hundred Patriot militiamen out of a force of eight hundred died for the loss of less than eighty Loyalists, making it the bloodiest batt
• E6: World War One: Jutland (2005-12-12) — The Battle of Jutland between Britain and Germany was the largest naval action of all time. It was a confrontation that the British wanted. An opportunity to unleash their lethal s
• E7: Stalingrad (2005-12-23) — Far from being the final step in the conquest of the USSR, Stalingrad proved a bloodbath. Half a million Germans were killed and almost three times as many Russians lost their live
• E8: The War of 1812: The Chesapeake and the Shannon (2005-12-23) — In 1812, the US and Great Britain are once again at war. American "super frigates" win a series of crushing naval victories over the British Royal Navy warships. With just under 11
• E9: Pointe du Hoc (2005-12-30) — Dawn on the 6th June, 1944. The largest invasion in history is underway. Four miles to the west of the Allied landings at Omaha Beach, a flotilla of landing craft head towards Hitl
• E10: The Six Day War (2005-12-30) — In 1967 the tension in the Middle East had neared boiling point. Border incidents between Israel and Syria, Egypt, and Jordan had increased massively during the early 1960s, with P
• E11: The Civil War: Shiloh (2006-01-02) — Before dawn on Sunday April 6th 1862, shots rang out near Shiloh, on the west bank of the Tennessee River. A Confederate army had launched a surprise attack on their unsuspecting U
• E12: Siege of Alesia (2006-01-09) — BattleField Detectives examines the strategy and the technology behind the Siege of Alesia a battle in 52 BC between Rome forces led by Julius Caesar and the Gallic tribes under Ve
• E13: Battle of Big Hole (2006-01-30) — On August 9, 1877, Colonel John Gibbon’s U.S. 7th Infantry Regiment launched a surprise dawn attack on a non-treaty band of the Nez Perce during their historic 1,170-mile flight. B

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does Battlefield Detectives have? 3 season(s) with 51 episodes.

Where can I watch Battlefield Detectives? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.