Victory at Sea
Victory at Sea
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.
DESIGN FOR WAR: Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1941
THE PACIFIC BOILS OVER: Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
SEALING THE BREACH: Anti-submarine warfare, 1941-1943
MIDWAY IS EAST: Japanese victories & the Midway Battle
MEDITERRANEAN MOSAIC: Gibraltar, Allied & enemy fleets, Malta
GUADALCANAL
RINGS AROUND RABAUL: Struggle for the Solomon Islands
MARE NOSTRUM: Mediterranean Command, 1940-1942
SEA AND SAND: Invasion of North Africa, 1942-1943
BENEATH THE SOUTHERN CROSS: War in the south Atlantic
THE MAGNETIC NORTH: War from Murmansk to Alaska
THE CONQUEST OF MICRONESIA: Carrier warfare--Gilberts and Marshalls
MELANESIAN NIGHTMARE: New Guinea campaign
ROMAN RENAISSANCE: Sicily and the Italian campaign
D-DAY: Normandy
KILLERS AND THE KILL: Victory in the Atlantic, 1943-1945
THE TURKEY SHOOT: Conquest of the Marianas
TWO IF BY SEA: Peleliu and Angaur
BATTLE FOR LEYTE GULF: Sea battle for Leyte Gulf
RETURN OF THE ALLIES: Liberation of the Philippines
FULL FATHOM FIVE: U.S. submarines
THE FATE OF EUROPE: Black Sea, south of France, surrender
TARGET SURIBACHI: Iwo Jima
THE ROAD TO MANDALAY: China, Burma, India, and Indian Ocean
SUICIDE FOR GLORY: Okinawa
