Age of Tanks

Impressive narrative, cohesive in treating the subject (tanks). The most likeable part is that it gives a brief picture of tank's evolution over the entire series, without getting lost. Neither is the series too technical nor too naive which is desirable to attract more viewers. They also have short interview clips about tank personnel of WW-II. They also mention about the notable commanders, tank designers, major events and tank manufacturing sites.

I'm 32 years old and I've watched almost all tank documentaries in all my experience. I mean all History Channel, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Viasat History HD and even independent ones. But this one is far and away the best.

This doc has 4 episodes and first one starts with the first tank British "Mark I" from 1916 and the last episode ends with the last modern tank Russian T-14 Armata which was started to produce in 2015. In all 4 episodes we witness the development of main battle tanks from World War I until today.

It's a French documentary and there is English dub and subtitle option on Netflix. The best thing of this documentary is "objectivity". First and foremost it's not a nationalist production. It's based on the real historic events from WWI, WWII, Korean War, Cold War, Yom Kippur War, First Chechen War, Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom. In all events, the importance of tanks is explained very well. In some parts, progress of tanks and anti-tank systems are explained but clarification of which one is better is not enough. Also I expected to learn about Korean K2 Black Panther, Chinese Type 99 A2, Israeli Merkava Mk IV, Japan Type 10, Russian T-90MS, British Challenger 2, French Leclerc with the AZUR urban protection kit, German Leopard 2A7+ and the most importantly German Leopard 2 Revolution and Turkish Altay main battle tanks. These tanks are enough to represent the future of main battle tanks as fifth episode. Despite all, this production is the best of all main battle tank docs with its fulfilling, realistic, historical and unbiased characteristics. A masterpiece documentary.

The main misunderstanding with this mini serial is that it's not really about tanks, but about events in our history, when tanks played important role.

So, if you're just looking for technical informations about tanks, or want to know the exact evolution and models produced - than this is not for you.

But on the other hand - if you're interested in history, and want to see some great materials from the past - than this is a wonderful source of knowledge.

From 1. World War, through second, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, Kuwait and Iraq, the story goes to last model produced in Russia. At each point of time there are tanks presented - models that took significant role in conflicts. It's just four short episodes - don't expect that all tanks' models around the world will be mentioned. But the interviews with people, who actually took place in those events, archival footages - this is the real value of this serial.

It's definitely worth to watch.

The script is very shallow. Only the State approved version when possible. When not possible, just erase the whole thing. And the "mistakes" are there to mislead. Austria from the beginning is actually an Empire against which the French have spent enormous sums of money to destroy. Germany is actually Prussia. And so on. And the usual moral statements about the evils of personal profit and how happy the peasants were for they were given the chance to die for the aristocracy.

I'm always deeply interested in 20th century history particularly the world wars and the cold war. This documentary tells 20th century history from a whole new angle - tanks. It is a fascinating journey of following the primitive tanks from the Great War, through WW2 to the modern age