Victory at Sea

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American television series television documentary series

Victory at Sea is a landmark 1950s American television documentary series about naval warfare in World War II, renowned for its innovative use of archival footage and its iconic musical score by Richard Rodgers.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American television series → television documentary series →
award	Peabody Award →
basedOn	archival wartime footage →
composer	Richard Rodgers NERFINISHED →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
creator	Henry Salomon →
depicts	Battle of the Atlantic → Mediterranean naval operations → Pacific War →
director	Morten Tyldum →
distributedBy	NBC →
firstAiredOnChannel	NBC →
focusesOn	naval campaigns of World War II →
genre	documentary → historical documentary → war documentary →
hasHomeVideoRelease	Victory at Sea home video editions →
hasOriginalScore	Victory at Sea (musical score) →
hasSoundtrackAlbum	Victory at Sea soundtrack →
influenced	later war documentaries →
medium	television →
musicArranger	Robert Russell Bennett →
musicDescribedAs	iconic →
musicStyle	orchestral →
narrator	Leonard Graves →
notableFor	innovative use of archival footage → original musical score by Richard Rodgers →
notableWorkOf	Richard Rodgers NERFINISHED →
numberOfEpisodes	26 →
numberOfSeasons	1 →
orchestrator	Robert Russell Bennett →
originalLanguage	English →
originallyBroadcastAs	weekly series →
originalNetwork	NBC →
originalReleasePeriod	1952–1953 →
originalRunEndDate	1953-05-03 →
originalRunStartDate	1952-10-26 →
pictureFormat	black-and-white →
productionCompany	NBC News →
received	Peabody Award →
runtimePerEpisode	approximately 26 minutes →
setInPeriod	Second World War →
subject	World War II → naval warfare →
timePeriodOfProduction	early 1950s →
uses	archival footage →
writer	Henry Salomon →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Richard Rodgers → Richard Rodgers ("Victory at Sea (suite)") → William Sims ("The Victory at Sea") →	notableWork
Theme from "Victory at Sea" (revised) ("television series "Victory at Sea"") →	associatedWith
Victory at Sea ("Victory at Sea (musical score)") →	hasOriginalScore