Tim Saunders
Known for: Acting
Author battlefield guide and full time military historian, Tim Saunders was Educated at Clayesmore School and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He served as an officer in the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment for thirty years and has a life long interest in military history. As an officer cadet, he undertook his first battlefield tour of Normandy on a bicycle at the age of eighteen, during leave from Sandhurst, where he was one of a generation of officers who studied under Professor Richard Holmes. Since then his service, including the Falklands, Northern Ireland, the Gulf and the Balkans, has provided him with the opportunity to visit many less well known battlefields around the world. Since leaving the Army Tim has appeared on TV in programmes as diverse as Channel 4's Time Team, Battlefield Detectives, the word programme Balderdash and Piffle' and most recently the Lost Evidence series for the History Channel. Tim is also an author with over 10 military history titles to his name. As a battlefield guide Tim is an expert on World Wars 1 and 2 and has conducted tours at all levels from private, through schools to Amilitary units and Headquarters. Tim is a badged member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides. Tim is a director of Battlefield History TV and is it's Creative Director responible for all direction and editing.
Filmography
Film
Bruneval Raid: Operation Biting
Presenter
2012
12th Hitlerjugend Panzer Division
Presenter
2012
The Germans in Normandy: 6th Fallschirmjaeger
Presenter
2015
Assault on Normandy: Pointe du Hoc
Presenter and Director
2014
100 Years War: Crecy 1346
Presenter
2013
Film
SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 1 - Das Reich and Oradour
Presenter
2012
The Background and Outbreak of the English Civil War
Presenter
Battle of the Bulge: An Intelligence Failure?
Presenter
SAS and the Normandy Campaign: Operation Bulbasket
Director and Presenter
Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle for the Oosterbeek Perimeter
Presenter
2012
Assault on Normandy: Pegasus Bridge
Presenter
2010
Operation Market Garden: Nijmegen
Presenter
2012
95th Rifles: 1812 to the Pyrenees
Presenter
2014
Assault on Normandy: Sword Beach
Presenter
2012
Salamanca
Presenter
2012
The 95th Rifles 1809 - 1812
Presenter and Writer
2015
Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beaches
Presenter
2013
Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beachhead
Presenter
2013
Battle of the Bulge: Kampfgruppe Peiper
Presenter
2016
Film
Bletchley Park and the Ultra Secret
Presenter & Director
2014
Le Cateau
Presenter and Director
2014
Assault on Normandy: 6th Airborne
Presenter
2013
Battle of the Bulge: Siege of Bastogne
Presenter
2015
Film
The Saint Nazaire Raid: Operation Chariot - The Greatest Raid
Presenter & Director
2015
The Waterloo Collection: Ligny and Quatre Bras - Part 1
Presenter
2011
Battle of the Bulge: German Field Artillery
Presenter
Film
Second Ypres 1915: The Great Gas Attack
Presenter
2015
Mons 1914
Presenter and Director
2014
100 Years War: Agincourt 1415
Presenter
2013
Battles of the Marne & the Aisne
Presenter
2015
Film
SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 2 - Destruction of the French railways
Presenter
2012
Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges - Part 1
Director and Presenter
Néry and the Retreat from Mons
Presenter
2014
The Race to the Sea - 1914
Presenter
1914
The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 AD
Himself - Presenter and Writer
2009
Siege Warfare 1812: Ciudad Rodrigo & Badajoz - The Keys to Spain
Presenter
Victory and Pursuit: The Waterloo Collection - Part 4
Presenter
The Waterloo Collection: Hougoumont and D'Erlon's Attack
Presenter
First Ypres 1914 and the Race to the Sea
Presenter and Director
2015
Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle of the Woods
Director and Presenter
2012
Cavalry Charge: La Haie Sainte & Plancenoit - The French and Prussian Attacks
Presenter
2011
100 Years War: Poitiers 1356
Presenter
2015
Battle of the Bulge: Saint Vith
Presenter
2015
The Charge That Saved the Empire: Geluveldt 1914
Presenter
The Somme 1916: Mansel Copse
Presenter
The Battle of Naseby 1645
Presenter
Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Last Gamble
Presenter
The 42nd of Foot - Black Watch - Dress and Equipment at Waterloo
Director and Editor
The 1066 Hastings Campaign
Presenter
2009
Battle of the Bulge: Panzer Marche - The Dash for Bastogne
Himself - Presenter
2013
Wittmann v Ekins: The Death of a Panzer Ace
Presenter
2010
95th Rifles 1800 to Corunna
Presenter
2015
The Schlieffen Plan
Presenter
2015