Armada: 12 Days to Save England

Name: Armada: 12 Days to Save England
Genre: Documentary, History
Cast: Dan Snow, Anita Dobson, Iain Fletcher, Joseph Balderrama, Zeh Prado

2015

📺 1 Season

🎬 3 Episodes

📅 Ended

🌐 EN

⏱️ 60 min/episode

DocumentaryHistory

Three-part documentary about the sinking of the Spanish Armada, featuring dramatic reconstructions and information gleaned from recently recovered documents. Dan Snow takes to the sea to tell the story of how England came within a whisker of disaster in summer 1588.

Seasons

Season 1

2015 • 3 Episodes

Dan Snow boards a yacht on the English channel to get a sense of the naval battle, revealing how tensions between England and Spain were fuelled by religion, piracy and Elizabeth I's rejection of King Philip II of Spain as a suitor 30 years earlier, and how a missed opportunity could have resulted in disaster.