Great Battles in History
Season 1 Episode 4 - The Battle of Marathon
The Battle of Marathon was an armed confrontation that defined the outcome of the first medical war. It happened in the year 490 a. C. and took place in the fields and the beach of the city of Marathon, located a few kilometers from Athens, on the east coast of Attica. He faced on the one hand the Persian king Darius I, who wanted to invade and conquer Athens for his participation in the Ionian revolt, and, on the other hand, the Athenians and their allies (from Plataea, among others). A feat remembered in this battle by Herodotus was that of Pheidippides, who walked the road from Athens to Sparta to ask for help from the Spartan army. Sparta refused to help the Athenians, claiming to meet on dates of religious celebrations.
Episodes in Season 1
Stalingrad - 1942
50 min
Trafalgar 1805
48 min
Pearl Harbour
49 min
The Battle of Marathon
43 min
The Lost Evidence of Iwo Jima
45 min
D-Day
55 min
The Battle of Waterloo - 1815
48 min
Chalons
21 min
Battle of Hastings 1066
21 min
Merrill’s Marauders
44 min
The Battle of Austerlitz
48 min
Gallipoli
48 min
Midway
45 min
The Battle of Gettysburg - 1863
48 min
The Armada - 1588
52 min
Battle of the Bulge
48 min
The Third Crusade
48 min
The battle of Alesia
21 min
Cannae
21 min
The Six-Day War
48 min
The Battle of Britain
49 min
Battle of Kadesh - Ramesses II
43 min
The Battle of Agincourt
48 min
The Battle of Inchon
21 min
Tobruk
25 min
Little Bighorn
48 min
Cambrai 1917
49 min
Operation Desert Storm
43 min
The Great War
47 min
Saratoga and The Battle of Rivoli
43 min
The Battle for Berlin
44 min
The Battle of El Alamein
48 min
TET Ofenssive
44 min
The Russo-Finnish War
104 min
The Battle of Tannenberg
45 min
Life in the Trenches
54 min
Monte Cassino 1944
49 min
Balaclava 1854
48 min
Guadalcanal
48 min
