Nova: Season 44, Episode 16 - ProjectFreeTV

44 - 16: Chinese Chariot Revealed

For over a thousand years, chariots thundered across China's battlefields, dominating warfare far longer than anywhere else on Earth. Now a series of amazing archaeological discoveries, including whole chariots buried with their horses, enable a team of experts to probe the genius of China's first super-weapon. By recreating a battle chariot, they investigate the design secrets which made them such a long-lived war machine, all while discovering how they were used, what set them apart from the rest of the world, and their role in the unification of China.