Name: Ancient Warriors Season 1
Released: 1994

S01 Episode

The Zulus

Young King Shaka Zulu turns a band of farmhands and herdsmen into the fiercest warriors in Africa, and take on the mightiest army in the world.

25 mins

S01 Episode 1

The Assyrians: Masters of War

The Assyrians were a highly organised fighting force that effectively used two-wheeled chariots and cavalry.

23 mins · Sun, 17 Apr 1994

S01 Episode 2

The Celts

The Celts' military success lay in their use of finely made weaponry and skilled chariot tactics. Only Roman discipline is known to overcome well-armed Celts.

25 mins · Sun, 24 Apr 1994

S01 Episode 3

The Normans

Descendants of the Vikings, the Normans inherit their penchant for roaming and conquer the French coast and England.

25 mins · Sun, 1 May 1994

S01 Episode 4

The Legions of Rome

Tiberius led members of the Roman Legion to conquer the Dacian army; what was initially just one Italian city-state among many became an inspiring story as Rome's rise to a world empire is one of the most fascinating in history.

23 mins · Sun, 8 May 1994

S01 Episode 5

The Macedonians

Alexander the Great uses his father's tactics to conquer the Persian Empire.

24 mins · Sun, 15 May 1994

S01 Episode 6

Soldiers of the Pharaoh

In the 7th century BC the ancient kingdom of Egypt was conquered. Cities were burned, temples were destroyed, and the people cruelly cast aside. Humiliated by his defeat, the Pharaoh vowed to reclaim his country.

23 mins · Sun, 22 May 1994

S01 Episode 7

The Spartans

The Spartans were the most effective warriors of Greek civilisation. They have been known to valiantly fight an army 50 times their size.

23 mins · Sun, 29 May 1994

S01 Episode 8

The Janissaries: An Army of Slaves

The Janissaries' warrior skills were known far and wide in the mid-1300s.

23 mins · Sun, 11 Sep 1994

S01 Episode 9

The Huns

Without warning they appeared one day in the east. An unknown tribe from an unknown land. Masters of the horse and the bow they struck as swiftly as an arrow, robbing, burning, killing, passing over the land like locusts.

24 mins · Sun, 18 Sep 1994

S01 Episode 10

The Knights Templar

The Knights Templar are created to protect pilgrims travelling to the Holy Land and retake the holy land from the Muslims.

23 mins · Sun, 25 Sep 1994

S01 Episode 11

The Vikings

In the year 1793, marauders from the north cross the sea to England and attack the monastery of Lindisfarne. This is the first strike to be dealt against Christian Europe at the hands of the Vikings.

22 mins · Sun, 2 Oct 1994

S01 Episode 12

The Highlanders

At the dawn of the 14th century, Scottish clans unite under Robert the Bruce and Highlander efforts help free Scotland from English rule.

25 mins · Sun, 9 Oct 1994

S01 Episode 13

The Irish: Warriors of the Emerald Isle

An exploration of how coastal regions were protected from invading Vikings and Celts, and the three dominant groups in ancient Irish society, farmers, druids and warriors.

25 mins · Sun, 16 Oct 1994

S01 Episode 14

The Maurya

The Maurya Empire, led by Emperor Asoka, defeats the last remaining opposition in the Indian subcontinent.

25 mins · Sun, 23 Oct 1994

S01 Episode 15

The Aztecs

Twenty seven years after Columbus had discovered America, Spanish adventurers stumbled onto a strange new world where boys were born to fight and warriors ate the flesh of their vanquished foes.

23 mins · Sun, 7 May 1995

S01 Episode 16

The Samurai

In year 1160, two of Japan's greatest military nobility clans fight a war of obliteration. The way of the Samurai life is to follow the bushido, to die an honourable death over living, and a strict code of unwavering loyalty.

22 mins · Sun, 14 May 1995

S01 Episode 17

The Shaolin: Masters of Kung Fu

The monks perfected their martial training by studying the movements of animals and a system of weaponry.

25 mins · Sun, 21 May 1995

S01 Episode 18

The Hawaiians

Behind its peaceful facade, Hawaii was a battleground. Rival armies spanned across the land and no chief ruled supreme. One would try. Daring to link, by force, a chain of islands that had never been conquered.

25 mins · Sun, 28 May 1995

S01 Episode 19

The Ninja - Warriors of the Night

Respected for their stealth and cunning manoeuvrers, the Ninja are considered the most devious and feared warriors in feudal Japan.

25 mins · Sun, 4 Jun 1995

S01 Episode 20

The Sioux

When the American west was still wild, the Sioux tribe was its master. On the backs of their horses they swept across the plains. At the battle of little big horn, Crazy Horse humbled a nation, and won the greatest victory in the war for the west.

25 mins · Sun, 11 Jun 1995

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