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Series : Empire of the Seas: How the Navy
Forged the Modern World
Title : Heart of Oak
Episode Number : S01E01
Genre : Documentary/History
iMDB URL : n/a
Air Date : 01/15/2010 (SD) 01/16/2010 (HD)
DVD Rel Date : n/a
SFM Rel Date : 01/23/2010
Ripped By : SFM
Source : High Definition
Video Format : x264 (in matroska container)
Video Resolution : 1280x720 (25 fps)
Video Bitrate : 2 Pass @ 3312 kb/s AVG
Audio Bitrate : AC3 2.0 @ 192 kb/s AVG
Sample Rate : 48 kHz
Length : 59 MiN 30 SECS
Size : 1.45 GB (1,564,507,937 bytes)
MD5 Sum : d962850b5adbc91b76678da6330d129b
Packs : 32 x 50MB
EPiSODE SUMMARY
Historian Dan Snow charts the defining role the Royal
Navy played in Britain's struggle for modernity - a
grand tale of the twists and turns which thrust the
people of the British Isles into an indelible
relationship with the sea and ships.
Heart of Oak opens with a dramatic retelling of 16th
and 17th-century history. Victory over the Armada
proved a turning point in the nation's story as tiny,
impoverished England was transformed into a seafaring
nation, one whose future wealth and power lay on the
oceans. The ruthless exploits of Elizabethan seafaring
heroes like Francis Drake created a potent new sense of
national identity that combined patriotism and
Protestantism with private profiteering.
At sea and on land, Snow shows how the Navy became an
indispensable tool of state, weaving the stories of
characters like Drake, God's Republican warrior at sea
Robert Blake, and Samuel Pepys, administrator par
excellence, who laid the foundations for Britain's
modern civil service.
With access to the modern Navy and reconstructed ships
of the time, Snow recounts the Navy's metamorphosis
from a rabble of West Country freebooters to possibly
the most complex industrial enterprise on earth.
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