Ancient Warriors is a 1994 20-part documentary series from the Discovery Channel. Each half-hour episode looks at a major fighting people or force and charts the reasons for their rise to dominance and subsequent fall. The show explores the motivations of ancient soldiers, as well as how they lived, fought, trained, died, and changed the world. It also uses battle re-enactments and computer graphics to demonstrate military strategy.
Assyrians: masters of war
Celts
Normans
Legions of rome
Macedonians
Soldiers of pharoah
Spartans
Janissaries: an army of slaves
Huns
Knights templer
Vikings
Highlanders
Irish: warriors of the emerald isle
Maurya: warriors of the elephant
Aztecs
Samurai
Shaolin monks: masters of kung fu
Hawaiians: warriors of paradise
Ninja: warriors of the night
Sioux: warriors of the plains
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