Finding the Fallen
Finding the Fallen
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Finding the Fallen

2005
2 seasons
13 episodes

Finding the Fallen is a UK-based documentary TV series by Yap Productions developed for the History Channel / Discovery Channel in which a team of archaeologists, historians and forensic experts work to identify unknown World War I soldiers and finally lay them to rest.

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At the end of the Great War, nearly two million soldiers were missing, presumed dead. Almost 90 years later, the bloody battlegrounds of France and Belgium are surrendering their secrets. Beneath the farmlands lie the unknown and the unclaimed dead…

  • Ep 1

    1.Ypres 1914: The First Trench

    01-01-2005

    Beneath the farmland of Northern Belgium lie graveyards, the final resting place of the fallen of the First World War. At Ypres, our team excavate the past, a shovelful at a time,...

  • Ep 2

    2.Serre 1915: Brothers in Death

    01-01-2005

    Serre in Northern France was an infamous German stronghold in the Great War. Thousands died here, many of them buried where they fell. Three soldiers are discovered. One is British...

  • Ep 3

    3.Loos 1915: The Underground War

    01-01-2005

    Tunnels and craters in the heart of a French coalfield hide horrors from the First World War. More than 50,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded here in a hellish battle that...

  • Ep 4

    4.Beaumont Hamel 1916: The Wounded

    01-01-2005

    Our team of archaeologists, forensic experts and historians travel to the front lines of the Battle of the Somme, a sector known as Beaumont Hamel, looking for the truth of what ha...

  • Ep 5

    5.Passchendaele 1917: Drowning in Mud

    01-01-2005

    In Northern Belgium lies the site of the infamous battle of Passchendaele, fought in 1917, a place where man and beast drowned in a churning sea of mud. As the team unearth the rem...

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