Victory at Sea

Originally broadcast by NBC from October 26, 1952, to May 3, 1953, Victory at Sea examined World War II naval warfare across 26 half-hour segments. The series was condensed into a 1954 film, and Richard Rodgers and Robert Russell Bennett's score was re-recorded for record albums. Its 1954 Emmy for best public affairs program helped establish compilation documentaries as a viable television genre, drawing on over 13,000 hours of footage from the US, British, German, and Japanese navies.