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Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 180 min.
Status: Ended
Certification: NR

Armada: 12 Days to Save England (2015)

Season 1 (May 24, 2015, midnight)

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.

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Armada: 12 Days to Save England (2015)

Season 1 (May 24, 2015, midnight)

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.

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IMDb
8.3
/68/
Trakt
66
/10/
TMDb
Dan Snow
Dan Snow
Presenter
Anita Dobson
Anita Dobson
Queen Elizabeth I
Iain Fletcher
Iain Fletcher
Sir Francis Drake
Joseph Balderrama
Joseph Balderrama
Medina Sidonia
Zeh Prado
Zeh Prado
Mateo
Philip Cox
Philip Cox
King Phillip II
Rupert Frazer
Rupert Frazer
Lord William Burghley
Dominic Jephcott
Dominic Jephcott
Admiral Charles Howard

May 24, 2015, midnight 0.0

S1E1 - 12 Days to Save England

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.
May 31, 2015, midnight 0.0

S1E2 - The Battle for England

Dan relives the fierce battles at sea and we go behind the scenes in the royal court of Elizabeth as the Spanish fleet prepares for full-on invasion.
June 7, 2015, midnight 0.0

S1E3 - Endgame

Newly discovered documents reveal a remarkable web of misunderstandings that stopped the Spanish from invading, and show how the English victory forged the reputation of Elizabeth.
Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 180 min.
Released: May 24, 2015
Last Air Date: June 7, 2015, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR

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