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built for battle the great assyrian empire
‘Built For Battle’ is an informative and engaging It was the world’s first superpower. One of the earliest
returnable series tracing the history, innovation, and and greatest empires of the ancient world, stretching
breakthrough moments of the world’s most influential out between Egypt, Kuwait and Turkey. The Assyrians
military machines. In this series we mix history, science, were an unstoppable, advanced military force,
and engineering to see how specific battles and expanding out of their home to conquer the Middle
combat missions defined the machinery of the time. East, with a dynasty of hegemonic warrior-kings ruling
We start with the battle and trace back to the origin over it for hundreds of years. But who were they? How
of each machine, the motivations behind its creation, did they live? What marks did they leave on the world
the men and women behind the technology, the - and how did they influence the future of civilisation?
unpredictable problems that arise, the engineering
marvels, the impact on the world and what the future
holds.
genre: history / science genre: history / science
format: 6 x 60’ / HD / 4K format: 1 x 60’ or 1 x 90’ / 4K
credits: Red Rock Films International credits: Bamboo doc
delivery: 12 months from green-light delivery: Q4 2024
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