Fortress
S01:E03 - WW1 the Gates to Verdun Fort Douaumont
S01:E01 - 1000 years of Fortress Metz
The exploration of the greatest defensive structures of mankind. Here in Metz we find 1000 years of Fortress Evolution in one town.
S01:E02 - Rise of the Star Forts
One of the most iconic and mysterious fortress designs ever is the Star Fort, visiting two of the great forts Bourtange and the Royal Fort Kronborg.
S01:E03 - WW1 the Gates to Verdun Fort Douaumont
The French defenses jewel in WW1, Fort Douaumont, towering over the city, reinforced hastily before the Kaisers army arrived, it held yet it fell.
S01:E04 - The Future Arise Steel and Concrete Fort De Mutzig
The Greatest of the Prussian forts, where history was made, electrical rising steel cupolas. Where the modern concrete and steel fortress evolved.
S01:E05 - The Great Fortress Copenhagen
After the war of 1864 the Danes constructed the largest fortress line of modern steel and concrete forts around Copenhagen, armed with huge cannons.
S01:E06 - Great Survivor of WW2, Guns still in place
Most of Europe's great forts were scrapped after WW2—but Fort de Tancrémont near Liège survived intact. Cared for by the WW2 survivors.
S01:E07 - The Last Fortified Village
Villey-le-Sec is history's last fortified village armored with massive rotating gun domes still in place as originally constructed.
S01:E08 - The End of an Era, Death from Above
Fort de Loncin — one of Henri Brialmont’s greatest fortresses. Destroyed by a single German shell, the shattered fort still entombs fallen men.