Clash Of Ancient Warriors

Name: Clash Of Ancient Warriors
Released: 2023-07-31T00:00:00.000Z

TV Show · Documentary · History

Using modern science to unravel the mysteries of ancient historical battles, revealing how military genius shaped civilisations from the earliest antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages.

2023 · 44m

Director Eddy Pizzardini, Julien Balestier

EPISODE 1

Battle Of Gergovia

In 52 BC, after eight years of warfare in Gaul, Julius Caesar and his legions laid siege to Gergovia, but he faced a coalition of all the Gallic tribes.
EPISODE 2

Battle Of Sekigahara

Tokugawa Ieyasu fought his rival Ishida Mitsunari in Sekigahara in 1600 to end a chaotic chapter in Japanese history. This also marked the beginning of a new era of political stability in the country.
EPISODE 3

Battle Of Marathon

The Persian king Darius the Great sends an expeditionary force to Greece in retaliation for Athens' support of a revolt among the Greek cities of Ionia. When the Persian army lands, it is met by the Athenian army.
EPISODE 4

Battle Of Hastings

In 1066, William of Normandy decided to go to England to claim the crown of England, which ignited a war of succession on an exceptional scale.
EPISODE 5

Battle Of Agincourt

In 1415, the finest French chivalry met at Azincourt. Exhausted and outnumbered, the army of King Henry V of England was easy prey, but it all went wrong.
EPISODE 6

The Catalaunian Plains

Attila, king of the Huns, faces strongman of the Roman Empire, Generalissimo Aëtius. But their terrible battle ends in a bloodbath, with no clear victory.