Silent Service

2000 • 1 Season • Ended

WWII submarine warfare documentary hosted by Keith David and Roger Mudd.

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Episodes

E1. The Boats of World War II

Meet the U.S. Navy submariners of WWII--hunters who lived under the sea in cramped and claustrophobic quarters as they stalked their victims. We'll se...

E2. The Captains of World War II

They were self-reliant individualists who forged a deadly team, and the initiative of individual submarine captains proved instrumental in the America...

E3. The Torpedoes of World War II

Only a few weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy experienced a failure of critical technology--the torpedoes that armed its f...

E4. Attack Plans of World War II

Examines the evolution of the strategy and tactics used by U.S. submarines in the war against Japan. Conceived as scouts for the surface fleet, the fl...