Name: Military Blunders
Released: 1992-11-13T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Stan Watt

TV Show · Documentary · History

Military Blunders offers an examination of the ways in which poor planning, meddling politicians, and bad strategy have changed the outcome of conflicts.

1992 · 43m

Starring Stan Watt

EPISODE 1

Uss Indianapolis/Collison At Sea: Queen Mary

When the U.S. cruiser Indianapolis is torpedoed, the crew is left struggling in shark-infested waters. Then: The Queen Mary cuts an escorting cruiser in two.
EPISODE 2

Stalin's Purges/The Coup Against Gorbachev

By the mid-1930s, Soviet Armed Forces ranked with the world's most modern. But thanks to Stalin's purge of senior officers.
EPISODE 9

My Lai Massacre

When an ill-trained lieutenant encouraged his inexperienced platoon to torch a Vietnamese village and massacre its innocent inhabitants, it was his own colleagues who ensured justice was done.
EPISODE 1

Desert One/The Bay Of Pigs

Take a look back at two colossal miscalculations: the attempt by U.S. Special Forces to rescue hostages in the U.S. Embassy during the Iranian Revolution in 1980, and the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion against Castro.
EPISODE 2

Last Flight of Lady/Hitler's Flying Blunders

A WWII U.S. B-24 Liberator crew crashes in the Libyan desert. It takes 20 years to learn their fate. Then: Hermann Goering's plans for the new Luftwaffe lead to trouble for Germany.
EPISODE 4

Sinking of the Graf Spee/Sinking of Force Z

First, the captain of a German battleship on a secret mission in the Atlantic sails into a blind alley. Then: Churchill dispatches two of Britain's mightiest warships to Singapore - without air cover.