It is a Canadian show on the History channel. It takes maps, archival footage, CGI, talking heads, and written accounts to recreate battles involving tanks. It is an old fashion TV war recreation documentary show using CGI. The show was made around 2010 and does have some limitations. There are no people in the CGI. It is mostly a little dated but it works by concentrating on the machinery. Each episode dissects a specific battle from all sides concentrating on the tanks and other machinery involved. It gives the show a good narrative flow. Each one is a compelling story explaining the weapons and tactics in the battle.
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The History Channel as it once was
skyking-1425 November 2023
This is a solid, fact-based, historical documentary. The sort of fare that made History Channel what it was at its best. I won't go into how far it's fallen here, but these were better days.
There are only two flaws that I really take issue with here,
#1 is that returning from each commercial break seems to lead to a reiteration of the final 60-90 seconds before the commercial break. This is redundant, and annoying.
#2 is that when the eyewitness is a non-English speaker and requires translation, the volume of the non-English speaker, and the sound effects are higher than the translation, making it very hard to hear and understand the translation. This requires turning on Closed Captioning to be able to understand what's being said.
One humorous element here is the German tanker who repeatedly proclaims how much better their tanks were than the Sherman and how the Sherman had no chance, was easy to defeat, etc. Yet, they LOST!
There are only two flaws that I really take issue with here,
#1 is that returning from each commercial break seems to lead to a reiteration of the final 60-90 seconds before the commercial break. This is redundant, and annoying.
#2 is that when the eyewitness is a non-English speaker and requires translation, the volume of the non-English speaker, and the sound effects are higher than the translation, making it very hard to hear and understand the translation. This requires turning on Closed Captioning to be able to understand what's being said.
One humorous element here is the German tanker who repeatedly proclaims how much better their tanks were than the Sherman and how the Sherman had no chance, was easy to defeat, etc. Yet, they LOST!
"Greatest Tank Battles" is an action-packed 20 -part series that brings to life...
cristal_pallace18 November 2012
"Greatest Tank Battles" is an action-packed 20 -part series that brings to life the most gripping and monumental tank battles ever fought, through stunning CGI animation and eyewitness accounts. Filmed on battlefields across the world, this new original series puts viewers in the heat of the battles, witnessing historic armored combats through the eyes of the very men who manned the tanks and fought to the finish.
"Greatest Tank Battles" brings the full fury of mechanized warfare to the screen for the first time by analyzing the weapons, defenses, tactics and using ultra-realistic CGI animation. The viewer experiences the complete picture of tank warfare: a General's-eye view of the battlefield, a soldier's-eye view of face to face confrontations and meticulous technical analysis by military historians. From the mighty 88mm cannon of the Second World War German Tiger, to the thermal imaging target system of the Gulf War M-1 Abrams - the series examines the significant technical details that shaped a century of battle.
"Greatest Tank Battles" will for the first time take viewers through the hatch and inside some of history's most legendary tanks, allowing them to see the battle through the eyes of tank commanders and their crews. They'll ride along with some of some of the greatest tank aces, discovering how they were able to make kill after kill, often against overwhelming odds, and escape with their lives.
Their stories bring to life epic conflicts such as those on the Eastern Front where 100,000 tanks clashed in history's biggest war. But some stories push ever farther a field to bring eyewitness accounts of pivotal tank battles in Korea, Vietnam and the Middle East.
"Greatest Tank Battles" takes us deeper into the mechanized battlefield than ever before revealing the delicate balance between man and machine - between victory and death- it puts viewers in the commander's seat and sends them into the heart of the action.
"Greatest Tank Battles" brings the full fury of mechanized warfare to the screen for the first time by analyzing the weapons, defenses, tactics and using ultra-realistic CGI animation. The viewer experiences the complete picture of tank warfare: a General's-eye view of the battlefield, a soldier's-eye view of face to face confrontations and meticulous technical analysis by military historians. From the mighty 88mm cannon of the Second World War German Tiger, to the thermal imaging target system of the Gulf War M-1 Abrams - the series examines the significant technical details that shaped a century of battle.
"Greatest Tank Battles" will for the first time take viewers through the hatch and inside some of history's most legendary tanks, allowing them to see the battle through the eyes of tank commanders and their crews. They'll ride along with some of some of the greatest tank aces, discovering how they were able to make kill after kill, often against overwhelming odds, and escape with their lives.
Their stories bring to life epic conflicts such as those on the Eastern Front where 100,000 tanks clashed in history's biggest war. But some stories push ever farther a field to bring eyewitness accounts of pivotal tank battles in Korea, Vietnam and the Middle East.
"Greatest Tank Battles" takes us deeper into the mechanized battlefield than ever before revealing the delicate balance between man and machine - between victory and death- it puts viewers in the commander's seat and sends them into the heart of the action.
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