Decisive Battles
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Decisive Battles was a television show on The History Channel depicting historic battles from antiquity. It ran for thirteen episodes during the summer of 2004.
The show used the game engine from Rome: Total War to give 3D versions of the battles. The show was hosted by Matthew Settle, who usually traveled to the sites of the battle.
The show has been discontinued, and it does not look like The History Channel will air any more episodes or re-runs.
It is being rerun on the History International channel, available by special order on many Cable/Satellite companies in the US.
[edit] Battles
- Cannae (Hannibal's victory at the Battle of Cannae) Aired on Friday, July 23
- Gaugamela (Alexander's victory over Darius III of Persia at the Battle of Gaugamela) Aired on Friday, July 30
- Marathon (Battle of Marathon) Aired on Friday, August 6
- Thermopylae (Battle of Thermopylae) Aired on Friday, August 13
- Spartacus (selected battles of the Third Servile War) Aired on Friday, August 20
- Attila the Hun (Battle of Chalons) Aired on Friday, August 27
- Crassus: Rich Man, Poor Man (Battle of Carrhae) Aired on Friday, September 3
- The Gothic Invasion of Rome (Battle of Adrianople and the Sack of Rome) Aired on Friday, September 10
- Hail Caesar! (Battle of Pharsalus) Aired on Friday, September 24
- Birth of the Roman Empire (Battle of Cynoscephalae) Aired on Friday, October 1
- Boudicca: Warrior Queen Aired on Friday, October 8
- Ramses II (Battle of Kadesh) Aired on Friday, October 15
- Herman the German (Battle of the Teutoburg Forest) Aired on Friday, October 22
