Discovery Channel - Battlefield Series 1 (1994) Part 3 The Battle of Midway

A comprehensive documentary series about the key battles of World War Two. This sweeping series offers detailed accounts of the key battles, combining extensive use of archival footage with full color 3D animation and a compelling and vivid narrative, complete with main weapon systems used and portraits of the principal leaders and commanders. Strategy and tactics are described in detail with excellent graphics, providing a fascinating analysis of the forces in conflict. A review of the political and military situation prior to battle and an examination of the weaponry and combat-readiness of the men are followed by original archive footage of important phases of the battle, supplemented by Situation Reports and finished off with a summary. Dramatic use of 3-D computer graphics and actual battle footage transport the viewer directly in the thick of the fight. Battlefield is a series that chronicles the decisive events and critical battles that shaped history. Archival footage from several sources includes film from the Moscow central military archives. Watch rare archival footage from vaults around the world!

Part 3 The Battle of Midway

The stakes were no less dramatic when Americans met Japanese in this enthralling carrier-to-carrier battle of Midway. Both sides knew that the victor would rule the Pacific for years to come. In June 1942 the critical battle of the war in the Pacific was fought between American and Japanese carrier forces, separated by hundreds of miles of ocean. The Battle of Midway was a significant landmark in naval history and a turning point in the war at sea. For the first time battleships fled before aircraft carriers, and major fleet engagements took place well beyond the range of visual contact. In the aftermath of the battle Japanese naval power was fatally damaged, and the ability to defend her new found maritime empire, seriously weakened. Although heavily outnumbered, the American task force, through better intelligence appreciations, superior tactics and strategy, and remarkably good luck, achieved a stunning victory, destroying four Japanese carriers at the cost of only one of its own.

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