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Decisive Weapons (1996)

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Genre
documentary film
Country
United Kingdom
Length
2 seasons, 12 episodes
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary series examines historic military technologies that changed the outcome of wars. Each episode focuses on a particular weapon or system. The show explains how these inventions were developed and used in combat.

informativeeducationalstraightforwardfactualhistoricalmethodicalseriousneutral

What happens

Decisive Weapons is a television series made by the BBC in association with the US channel A&E. It ran for two years airing on BBC2 in the UK from 1996 to 1997. The series was devised and produced by Martin Davidson who also co-wrote the book Decisive Weapons with series researcher Adam Levy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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