Season 1 • Episode 40
LatestCommissioned in 1938, the British cruiser HMS Belfast was the Royal Navy's most modern warship.
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.
Production
Archive footage so crisp you'll forget it's decades old.
Practical Effects
Re-enactments that actually look like they spent money.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series originally aired on The History Channel back when it actually showed history instead of ancient aliens and pawn shops.
Crew interviews were recorded in the late 1990s, capturing WWII veterans before their generation largely passed — making this an unintentional oral history archive.
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