Decisive Battles

Rise of Empires: Ottoman

August 2025 •English

Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II wages an epic campaign to take the Byzantine capital of Constantinople and shapes the course of history for centuries.

WWII Frontlines

August 2025 •English

This series takes viewers deep into the heart of battle, to reveal the critical turning points in some of WWII's most decisive confrontations.

Clash of the Dinosaurs

August 2025 •English

For the first time in 65 million years, innovative imaging technology enables viewers to see deep inside the body of a dinosaur to reveal the secrets of these ultimate prehistoric survival machines. Combining cinematic photo-real 3d graphics and leading-edge anatomy and paleontology, "Clash of the Dinosaurs" is a four-part special that peels back the skin, muscles and bones to show how they survived in such a violent world.

Empress Ki

August 2025 •Korean

A woman born in Korea navigates her way through love, war, politics and national loyalties to become a powerful empress in China's Yuan dynasty.

Hornblower

August 2025 •English

Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises through the ranks to become an admiral.

HistoryMarche

August 2025 •English

HistoryMarche delves into the tactics, strategies, and impacts of historical battles, bringing them to life with detailed animations and creative storytelling. The channel balances education with engaging visuals, making complex military maneuvers accessible. With a focus on transparency, it highlights scholarly debates and speculative history, encouraging critical thinking. By blending storytelling and modern animation, HistoryMarche makes history dynamic, relevant, and visually compelling.

Sharpe

August 2025 •English

Sharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. Sharpe is the hero of a number of novels by Bernard Cornwell; most, though not all, of the episodes are based on the books. Produced by Celtic Films and Picture Palace Films for the ITV network, the series was shot mainly in Turkey and the Crimea, although some filming was also done in England, Spain and Portugal. The series originally ran from 1993 to 1997. In 2004, as part of ITV's new set of drama, ITV announced that it intended to produce new episodes of Sharpe, in co-production with BBC America, loosely based on his time in India, with Sean Bean continuing his role as Sharpe. Sharpe's Challenge is a two-part adventure; part one premiered on ITV on 23 April 2006, with part two being shown the following night. With more gore than earlier episodes, the show was broadcast by BBC America in September 2006.

Epic History TV

August 2025 •English

Epic History makes videos about the most dramatic and important stories from our past, from the rise and fall of empires to global conflicts and revolutions. Our team have history degrees and decades of experience in documentary production, and regularly collaborate with specialist historians around the world, so you’re in safe hands as we explore some of the most epic moments in history.

Baa Baa Black Sheep

August 2025 •English

The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron.

The Warfighters

August 2025 •English

Featuring first-person accounts of recent US Special Forces missions in the war on terror, this unnarrated series gives viewers an inside and candid look at the realities of war.

Dunkirk

August 2025 •English

Major factual drama telling the story of history's greatest maritime evacuation, after the World War II Battle of Dunkirk in May and June 1940.

Eternal Brotherhood

August 2025 •Chinese

In the war-ravaged land of Zichuan, a heroic general and his sworn brothers battle internal rebellion and an invading enemy. As they fight to protect their homeland and loved ones, they forge a powerful tale of loyalty, sacrifice, and the pursuit of peace.

Les Grandes Batailles

August 2025 •French

Les Grandes Batailles is a series of historical television programs by Daniel Costelle, Jean-Louis Guillaud, and Henri de Turenne, broadcast on French television in the 1960s and 1970s, depicting the major battles of World War II, as well as the Nuremberg Trials. The project for the series actually began with an official government commission for a program on the Battle of Verdun in 1966. Ten other programs about World War II followed. The writers and producers of the series were Henri de Turenne and Jean-Louis Guillaud, both journalists. They entrusted the production of the series to the young director Daniel Costelle.

1066: The Battle for Middle Earth

August 2025 •English

In this blend of historical drama and original source material, the story of this decisive year is remagined, not from the saddles of kings and conquerors, but through the eyes of the ordinary men who fought on their behalf.

战火熔炉

August 2025 •Chinese

Julius Caesar

August 2025 •English

Twenty year-old Julius Caesar flees Rome for his life during the reign of Sulla but through skill and ambition rises four decades later to become Rome's supreme dictator.

Vikings

August 2025 •English

The adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods. Legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors.

Culloden

August 2025 •English

Culloden is a 1964 docudrama written and directed by Peter Watkins for BBC TV. It portrays the 1746 Battle of Culloden that resulted in the British Army's destruction of the Scottish Jacobite uprising and, in the words of the narrator, "tore apart forever the clan system of the Scottish Highlands". Described in its opening credits as "an account of one of the most mishandled and brutal battles ever fought in Britain", Culloden was hailed as a breakthrough for its cinematography as well as its use of non-professional actors and its presentation of an historical event in the style of modern TV war reporting. The film was based on John Prebble's study of the battle.

1920. War and Love

August 2025 •Polish

Three soldiers who met while each was serving a different partition of Poland form a friendship that lasts after their homeland regains independence.

Drawing Sword 3

August 2025 •Chinese

Wang Yunshan is the leader of the Eighth Route Army Regiment. Although uneducated and hot tempered, he possess an extraordinary military mind. He dared to fight hard and taking an unorthodox strategy, he was able to win against the Japanese army.