Decisive Battles

Decisive Battles was a television show on the History Channel that depicted historic battles. It ran for thirteen episodes in mid-2004.^[1] The show used the game engine from Rome: Total War to present 3-D versions of the battles.^[2] The show was hosted by Matthew Settle, who usually traveled to the sites of the battle. Reruns of the show air on the History International channel.

Battles

• Cannae (Hannibal's victory at the Battle of Cannae, 216 BCE) Aired on Friday, July 23, 2004
• Gaugamela (Alexander's victory over Darius III of Persia at the Battle of Gaugamela, 331 BCE) Aired on Friday, July 30
• Marathon (Battle of Marathon, 490 BCE) Aired on Friday, August 6
• Thermopylae (Battle of Thermopylae, 480 BCE) Aired on Friday, August 13
• Spartacus (selected battles of the Third Servile War, 73 to 71 BCE) Aired on Friday, August 20
• Attila the Hun (Battle of Chalons, CE 451) Aired on Friday, August 27
• Crassus: Rich Man, Poor Man (Battle of Carrhae, 53 BCE) Aired on Friday, September 3
• The Gothic Invasion of Rome (Battle of Adrianople and the Sack of Rome CE 378 to 410) Aired on Friday, September 10
• Hail Caesar! (Battle of Pharsalus, 48 BCE) Aired on Friday, September 24
• Birth of the Roman Empire (Battle of Cynoscephalae, 197 BCE) Aired on Friday, October 1
• Boudicca: Warrior Queen, CE 61 (Battle of Watling Street, CE 61) Aired on Friday, October 8
• Ramses II (Battle of Kadesh, 1274 BCE) Aired on Friday, October 15
• Herman the German (Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, CE 9) Aired on Friday, October 22

See also

• Time Commanders
• The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World

References

1. ^ Season 1 (Episode Guide) http://www.fancast.com/tv/Decisive-Battles/102041/episodes Retrieved 2009-07-26.
2. ^ John Gaudiosi, "Rome: First a Game, Now on TV," Wired (05.17.04).

External links

• Decisive Battles at the Internet Movie Database