When the Nazis finished its construction, the German battleship Bismarck was the most powerful warship in Europe. Commissioned in 1940, Bismarck immediately posed a lethal threat to both Allied ...

Now, 60 years later, PBS has partnered with England's Channel 4 in an extraordinarily ambitious expedition to find Great Britain's HMS Hood and Germany's Bismarck for two new television specials.

The Hood, built in 1920, had a displacement of 42,462 tons and was over 860 feet long, making it bigger than the Bismarck by a significant margin. It boasted an impressive armament as well ...

What You Need to Know: In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck proved formidable, sinking HMS Hood and damaging Prince of Wales while evading pursuit across the North Atlantic. -Yet ...

Movie"Two of the worlds leading shipwreck detectives use stateoftheart equipment to discover how the Hood battleship was sunk so quickly during World War II" ...

Dec. 6 -- You are 16,000 feet below the North Atlantic, peering out the window of a tiny submersible. The wreck you see was once the most feared warship in the world. Even now — 60 years after ...

The Hood was not commissioned until August 1918 ... it evinced a strong response. The Bismarck, one of the largest battleships ever built, was sunk three days later.

Sink The Bismarck! is a first-rate film re-creation of a thrilling historical event. The screenplay is taken from a book by C. S. Forester. It concentrates almost entirely on three playing areas.

In May 1941, the British battlecruiser HMS Hood chased down the German battleship Bismarck in an attempt to protect the flow of American supplies to Great Britain. Within 15 minutes of firing its ...