Naval video's, a selected range of naval historical video from leading video publishers available from the Military Art Company.

Naval videos of German Kriegsmarine, Royal Navy and videos on particular ships. For postage please add £3.00 for UK. For overseas orders add £8 plus £2 per video. All videos compatible with UK and European video systems which are the same for most for the world except the USA and Canada

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The turn of the century saw a race for naval supremacy, leaving the Victorian era behind and ushering in the age of the massive battleship, the Dreadnought.

Since then, through  two world wars and numerous naval engagements, the Royal Navy has maintained its place as one of the world's major maritime powers. The era of the battleship has now passed but the aircraft carriers, frigates and destroyers have kept the tradition of the Royal Navy as strong as ever, as have the men and women who serve on those ships.

Century of Navy combines rare and unseen archive film with newly shot footage and expert opinion to tell the story of those momentous years. See the Dreadnoughts as they steam out for the Battle of Jutland, the biggest naval battle of the First World War; watch the great engagements of the Second World War - the Channel dash, the sinking of Force Z, the hunt for the Bismarck and that vital fight for Britain's survival, the Battle of the Atlantic. Newly-found colour footage of carrier operations off the coast of Japan and NATO exercises bring the story into peacetime. And see how the modern Royal Navy maintains its place as the protector of the high seas.

When Japan declared war on the United States in 1941, Japan's opening gambit - Admiral Nagumo's air strike on Pearl Harbor - established the aircraft carrier as the ultimate weapon of naval warfare. In a daring revenge mission, America' James Doolittle hit back at the heart of Tokyo with a handful of carrier-based bombers before Nagumo met his match in US commander Chester Nimitz at Midway. The carrier's development is raced from World War 2 through Korea and Vietnam to the Falklands, where a combination of vertical take-off strike planes, helicopters and missile systems proved the modern carrier still reigned supreme.

Colour & B/W. Running time approx 55 minutes. Video  Price £6.50  order code PEG1176    

War at sea is a complex business with three main area's of defence and attack. Surface, under sea and air. In this action packed video, we see today's Naval Forces managing this balance of carriers for air defence, battleships for fire power and cruisers and frigates for hunting submarines.

By the end of World War II, the battleship was making way for the aircraft carrier, but today they have made a remarkable comeback to meet the demand for platforms from which to launch cruise missiles.

Congress has funded the conversion of many of America's best known old battleships including Iowa, New Jersey and Wisconsin. Many of the advanced techniques used in sea combat are demonstrated in this exciting film.

The German submarine threat was one of the most dramatic conflicts of World War II. The Nazi U-Boat force, known as the "Wolf Pack" almost turned the tide of the war as it threatened to completely shut off the Atlantic supply lines. This award winning film tells the fascinating and frightening story of the Nazi submarine attack force that sank hundreds of ships and invaded U.S. waters.

Rare footage of U-Boat construction, the claustrophobic life on board, and actual attacks on Allied shipping, highlight this powerful and memorable film. Detailed interviews with a former U.S. Coast Guards Captain, and a former German U-Boat Captain provided an insight into counterpoint on the Atlantic "war of nerves2. German military footage of U-Boats within New York Harbor and Chesapeake Bay further emphasizes the frightening reality of this unseen, underwater foe that nearly changed the course of history.

Colour and Black and White. Running time approx 58 mins.  Video Price £6.99.  order code PEG1157

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After the horrors of the Great War, an uneasy peace prevailed. Britannia ruled the waves but for how long?

The mid 1930's saw Germany rebuilding her fleets, defying the Versailles Treaty as Hitler planned to encircle Britain with his Kriegsmarine. Within hours of war's declaration, a u-boat had claimed its first victim in an underwater reign of terror that struck the merchantman and warship alike. By April 1940, Germany had sunk one million tons of Allied shipping.

The entrance to Mussolini's Italy shifted the balance of power in the Mediterranean. But the Allies changed the course of naval warfare in 1941 when torpedo bombers from HMS Illustrious decimated the Italian fleet at anchor in Taranto, crippling three of their battleships in the first Allied victory since the fall of France.

Japan soon learned the lesson - to America's cost. The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 dwarfed Taranto, with 19 warships and 190 aircraft lost and 22,500 dead.

Sea power proved crucial in the Pacific. The battle of Coral Sea was decisive in denying Japan a gateway to Australia and was a naval first - opposing forces launching air attacks 120 miles apart were never in sight of each other. After the US strike on Midway, there was no doubting the tide had turned. Leyte Gulf was the last and greatest sea battle of World War II, leaving the Imperial fleet all but destroyed. The era of the battleship was long gone; the aircraft carrier was now the undisputed master of naval warfare.

Horatio Nelson was born in 1758. In that same year the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty approved the building of the largest battleship ever ordered by the Navy, HMS Victory.

Together they were to save Europe, their names to be etched forever in the annals of history. The spectacular story of Britain's greatest naval hero and the most famous warship in the world actually taking place in the unique setting of HMS Victory, at Burnham Thorpe where Nelson was born, and at Chatham Dockyard where HMS Victory was built.

Running time approx 45 minutes. Price £9.99

U-Boat War

Video run time 55 minutes. Order code PEG1150.   

The History of the Submarine

Battleships at War

Video run time 55 minutes. Order code PEG1178.   

Post and packing for UK £3 per video, maximum charge £6. For overseas orders add £8 plus £2 per video.

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Video run time 55 minutes. Order code PEG1078.     

The War in the Pacific

The US Marine Corps

Battle of Midway

Carrier Battles of World War Two