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  • Coast The Netherlands (Season 6, Episode 2)
  • TV Episode | Documentary

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The Netherlands (Season 6, Episode 2)
TV Episode | Documentary
The team travels to Holland, and the astonishing man-made shoreline of the Netherlands. Nick Crane explores how Dutch engineers created massive coastal defences following the great North Sea floods in 1953, which killed thousands of people...See moreThe team travels to Holland, and the astonishing man-made shoreline of the Netherlands. Nick Crane explores how Dutch engineers created massive coastal defences following the great North Sea floods in 1953, which killed thousands of people. Nick also discovers how, during the Second World War, traitors from the British Indian Army took part in the Nazi occupation of the tiny isle of Texel - the unlikely site for the last battle in Europe of the Second World War. Historian Tessa Dunlop investigates how the tulip trade nearly bankrupted the country 400 years ago, and Mark Horton finds out about a project to reclaim an area of land bigger than Greater London from the sea. Written by Joyce M See less
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Director
David Symonds
Producer
David Symonds
Cinematographers
Andrew Muggleton (photography) | Mark Smeaton (photography)
Editor
Simon Prentice
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Status
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Updated Jun 19, 2011
Release date
Jun 19, 2011 (United Kingdom)
Awards
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2 wins & 1 nomination

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Nicholas Crane
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