Armada: 12 Days to Save England (2015)

Documentary · History

Overview

Three-part documentary about the sinking of the Spanish Armada, featuring dramatic reconstructions and information gleaned from recently recovered documents. Dan Snow takes to the sea to tell the story of how England came within a whisker of disaster in summer 1588.

Cast

• Dan Snow as Self - Presenter
• Anita Dobson as Queen Elizabeth I
• Iain Fletcher as Sir Francis Drake
• Joseph Balderrama as Medina Sidonia
• Zeh Prado as Mateo
• Philip Cox as King Phillip II
• Rupert Frazer as Lord William Burghley
• Crispin Redman as Sir Francis Walsingham
• Dominic Jephcott as Admiral Charles Howard
• Alun Raglan as Juan Martinez de Recalde

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