Under Siege

Season 1

2004 · 6 episodes · 3h 56m in all

Episodes

1. 

   1. Alesia

   1 Jan 2004 · 48 min

   As resistance to the Roman invasion, the Gallic warrior Vercingetorix marshalled troops against the Romans and their most inspired commander – Julius Caesar.

2. 

   2. Ciudad Rodrigo

   8 Jan 2004 · 47 min

   Here at Ciudad Rodrigo, there was the bloody business of siege warfare – where civilians and soldiers share the same conditions and privations.

3. 

   3. Petersburg

   15 Jan 2004 · 47 min

   Union forces should have seized Petersburg in June 1864, but through a mixture of confusion and incompetence they failed and a year-long siege followed.

4. 

   4. Verdun

   22 Jan 2004 · 47 min

   Almost 700,000 French and German troops had been killed or wounded in this hellish protracted siege that earned the chilling nick-name "The Mincer."

5. 

   5. Leningrad

   29 Jan 2004 · 47 min

   The grim, powerful story of the "Hero City" that lost one million of its citizens as it steadfastly withstood a 900-day German siege.

6. 

   6. Newark

   5 Feb 2004

   The battles for the strategically-vital town in Nottinghamshire, England are classic examples of how a siege was conducted during the long and bitter English Civil War.