Perfect Weapon — Season 1, Episode 5: Battle Blades
Documentary • 60 min • 1 season, 6 episodes
Episode synopsis
Our hosts choose their bladed weapon & are trained to test them against various targets including a pig carcass, to assess the damage caused in battle. From the Bronze Age, blades formed the mainstay of warfare. Monty and Stuart choose the long Sword and the Poleaxe and then they conduct a series of tests on their weapons to discover the strengths and weaknesses of both. They wheel in some very modern technology, a Motion Capture system, to help them to use their weapons with better technique.
About Perfect Weapon
From swords and axes to great siege engines, two men put the greatest tools of warfare to the test.