History Channel - Dogfights The First Dogfighters (2007)

The History Channel series DOGFIGHTS, recreates famous battles using state-of-the-art computer graphics. With up to 25 percent of the program consisting of animation, viewers will feel like they're in the battle, facing the enemy. While first-hand accounts will drive the story, rare archival footage and original shooting supplement the remarkable computer graphics. World War I saw the birth of a new type of combat the dogfight. Aces from almost every nation take canvas and wire biplanes into battle and pioneer new tactics. In the skies above France and Belgium, some of the earliest fighters - Fokker triplanes, Spads, and SE-5s - battled to the death. In this episode legendary flying aces and notorious dogfights of WWI are examined using computer graphics, firsthand accounts and archival footage. Included Ernst Udet's Albatros D.III vs. Georges Guynemer's SPAD VII; Werner Voss, flying a Fokker triplane, battles six S.E.5a pilots, including James McCudden, Arthur Rhys Davids, and Richard Maybery; Arthur Raymond Brooks and his SPAD XIII dogfights with eight Fokker D.VIIs.

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