History Channel 'Warriors' Series

[Username]

The post about Spike's Deadliest Warriors reminded me of The History Channel's Warriors series. You can check it out at http://www.history.com/warriors and watch full episodes. So far, I've seen the Knight (Henry V and Agincourt) and Babarian (Germania vs Romans) episodes and found they were top notch. Discussion included weapons, tactics and philosophy by reenactors in period attire. Very enjoyable show.

[Heir of Black Falcon]

It has been years, maybe a decade since I saw one but some of them were really good.

Heir

[Username]

It has been years, maybe a decade since I saw one but some of them were really good.

Heir

Eh? A decade you say? You're into time travel? I could have sworn this was a new show.

[Bruce N H]

Ooh, I saw part of one of those as well the other night - they were looking at the battles of William Wallace. Interesting show.

Bruce

[Heir of Black Falcon]

Sorry Username but no time travel just old. The history channel began these back in the 90s... you likely are just too young. I am not sure how long it has been since they made them actually. I have three of the original ones, sadly on VHS which I cannot watch. I'd like to get some of the news ones though.

Heir

[Hound Knight]

The History Channel's been around for a while, but this is a new series. I've watched every episode so far, and they're all excellent!

[Heir of Black Falcon]

Sorry HK but the HC has run Warrior series before this one. I am sure they will do another in a few years. This run seems to be fairly small comparatively with just four groups from what I have seen.

The groups they covered in the original run 1994-1995:

Assyrians, Aztecs, Celts, Egyptians, Hawaiians, Huns, Irish, Janissaries, Knights Templar, Macedonians, Maurya, Ninja, Normans, Romans, Samurai, Scots, Shaolin, Sioux, Spartans, Vikings and Zulus.

The old run is no longer listed on the HC store or A & E but I found several listed online and in local libraries.

I may be old, but not that forgetful...yet.

Heir

[Hound Knight]

Oh. I had no idea, we didn't have cable then. Did the old ones have Terry Shappert in them as well?

[Heir of Black Falcon]

HK,

Nope. They were just the normal HC type documentaries. Usually about 35 minutes in total (add some commercial time in etc. it was an hour long program if I remember right). I found several online but the host sites are either a bit dodgy looking or had other video links on them that were not kid friendly.

Heir

[Hound Knight]

Interesting, thanks for the clarification.

[quaraga]

sounds cool, most of my favorite warrior nations are in the list above.

-T.R.