Battle Documentaries

[The International]

I don't know if anyone else is into these shows. But I'm loving the following...

Battles BC
Warriors
Human Weapon
Engineering An Empire
Shadow Force

No one does military history like the History Channel it seems. but then I saw SPIKE's Deadliest Warrior. Fucking awesome! It takes two historical types of warriors, separated by era or geography and pits them against each other. Every time I watch these shows, I make an amendment to the future vision of my character and what kind of warrior or strategist my character could become. Does anyone else like these shows like I do? Are there any titles I'm missing?

[Arsène]

Battles BC

That is, perhaps, the worst show I've seen on the History Channel. Its style is a total rip-off of 300 with cheesy special effects and "manly" grunts of battle. Plus bad metal/electronic music.

Some of those other shows are pretty cool though.

[Visla Eraclaire]

I've been watching the Warriors shows on the history channel. The host is such a bro though.

He's always like "Man, sweet axe swing, bro. Let's fist pound and then do a beer bong, bro."

What a douchebag.

Good show though.

[The International]

That is, perhaps, the worst show I've seen on the History Channel. Its style is a total rip-off of 300 with cheesy special effects and "manly" grunts of battle. Plus bad metal/electronic music.

Some of those other shows are pretty cool though.
Battles BC may have a rip off production style, but I like the amount of detail they went into in each episode. I didn't realize ho badly Hannibal terrorized Rome until Battles BC.

[Arsène]

I just can't get past the terrible attempt at comic book graphics, or the "blood stained pages" that the historians are superimposed on.

Really? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDHegZVbyEA)

[Visla Eraclaire]

I got over the History Channel pandering to people who don't give a shit about history at all... somewhere around the 500th episode of "Preposterous Apocalypse Show" or "Let's Talk About The Da Vinci Code"

My favorite is when they reveal that the bible might not be quite historically accurate for the six billionth time, as if some fundie who has been jamming his fat fingers in his ears his entire life has suddenly emerged from under a rock and coincidentally found a television tuned in to the damned History Channel... and is actually going to LISTEN?

Ok, maybe I'm not over it.