TV series

Armada: 12 Days to Save England
2015 · 1 season
A sober, gripping history lesson that mixes talking heads with storm-lashed reconstructions, making a 400-year-old crisis feel immediate and precarious.
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Starring
- Dan Snow, Anita Dobson, Iain Fletcher
- Overview
- 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.
- How it feels
- Tense, earnest and dark. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- War, survival, power, politics
- Content
- Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Starring
- Dan Snow, Anita Dobson, Iain Fletcher








