Discover what it was like to be a knight in shining armor and follow the historic armor manufacturing process. Join master armorers as they re-engineer Greenwich armor – considered some of the greatest armor ever made – and then put it to the test.
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NOVA
WWII MEGA WEAPONS
Battleship Yamato
Learn how Japan, in a bid to dominate the Pacific, builds the biggest battleship in the world. A floating fortress with the most powerful guns and the thickest armor ever mounted on a warship, the Japanese believe her unsinkable.
INDEPENDENT LENS
The Armor of Light
The Armor of Light Two Christians – an Evangelical anti-abortion activist and an African-American mother whose son was murdered – find common ground in the fight against a rising tide of gun violence.
Immediately after the film, PBS ill premiere a town hall-style discussion under the overarching theme of “Armed in America,” furthering the national conversation around American guns.