Review by marianoe-11449

Produced to commemorate the Century of Battle of Jutland, this program shows more or less same things we have watched several times in TV. The great new value is that human aspect of the battle improves to include not only casualties but also relatives and it breaks national boundaries displaying shocking long term effects on German civil population. It's the new strategic point of view that outclasses tactic accounts going beyond the battlefield, beyond the Northern Sea, beyond 1916 to the whole World and to the future; so today young generations learn how to appreciate his Heritage, seeing a parallel between then and now; military and civilian people read fragments of first hand Jutland History; with same intention Royal Navy locates some sites of undersea graveyards. New goals include an explanation about use of WWI optical telemeters, takes of gorgeous models of battlecruisers at Maritime Museum, actual battlecruiser plans, first time no CGI wrong ship's silhouettes, some views of Admiralty rooms, and again: the Human Dimension. Propellant ignition tests are very demonstratives but I don't like the "surprise" that Dr. Engineer exhibits seeing combustion of confined cordite; a scientist must know how powder, cordite and similar substances burning on function of circumstances (that's precisely the reason why they are used as propellants). The wood model sinking simulator remains below the level of credibility of any episode of "Mythbusters". Curiously according to new Grand Strategy approach, First Sea Lord changes previous opinion about Admiral Jellicoe. So the Blame Game aims today to some procedures at various levels of command.