Overview
Victory at Sea is a documentary television series about naval warfare during World War II that was originally broadcast by NBC in the USA in 1952–1953. It was condensed into a film in 1954. Excerpts from the music soundtrack, by Richard Rodgers and Robert Russell Bennett, were re-recorded and sold as record albums. The original TV broadcasts comprised 26 half-hour segments—Sunday afternoons at 3pm in most markets—starting October 26, 1952 and ending May 3, 1953. The series, which won an Emmy award in 1954 as "best public affairs program", played an important part in establishing historic "compilation" documentaries as a viable television genre. Over 13,000 hours of footage gathered from US, British, German and Japanese navies during World War II were perused in the making of these compelling episodes.
Genres
This show is tagged as Documentary, War & Politics. Browse more TV shows by genre on Fluxcap Stream.
Cast
Episodes
DESIGN FOR WAR: Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1941
30 min
THE PACIFIC BOILS OVER: Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
30 min
SEALING THE BREACH: Anti-submarine warfare, 1941-1943
30 min
MIDWAY IS EAST: Japanese victories & the Midway Battle
30 min
MEDITERRANEAN MOSAIC: Gibraltar, Allied & enemy fleets, Malta
30 min
GUADALCANAL
30 min
RINGS AROUND RABAUL: Struggle for the Solomon Islands
30 min
MARE NOSTRUM: Mediterranean Command, 1940-1942
30 min
SEA AND SAND: Invasion of North Africa, 1942-1943
30 min
BENEATH THE SOUTHERN CROSS: War in the south Atlantic
30 min
THE MAGNETIC NORTH: War from Murmansk to Alaska
30 min
THE CONQUEST OF MICRONESIA: Carrier warfare--Gilberts and Marshalls
30 min
MELANESIAN NIGHTMARE: New Guinea campaign
30 min
ROMAN RENAISSANCE: Sicily and the Italian campaign
30 min
D-DAY: Normandy
30 min
KILLERS AND THE KILL: Victory in the Atlantic, 1943-1945
30 min
THE TURKEY SHOOT: Conquest of the Marianas
30 min
TWO IF BY SEA: Peleliu and Angaur
30 min
BATTLE FOR LEYTE GULF: Sea battle for Leyte Gulf
30 min
RETURN OF THE ALLIES: Liberation of the Philippines
30 min
FULL FATHOM FIVE: U.S. submarines
30 min
THE FATE OF EUROPE: Black Sea, south of France, surrender
30 min
TARGET SURIBACHI: Iwo Jima
30 min
THE ROAD TO MANDALAY: China, Burma, India, and Indian Ocean
30 min
SUICIDE FOR GLORY: Okinawa
30 min
DESIGN FOR PEACE: Surrender of Japan & aftermath of war
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