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
- 95th Rifles - Dress and Equipment
95th Rifles - Dress and Equipment TBA
Director
- The Charge That Saved the Empire: Geluveldt 1914
The Charge That Saved the Empire: Geluveldt 1914 TBA
as Presenter
- The Battle of Naseby 1645
The Battle of Naseby 1645 TBA
as Presenter
- The Background and Outbreak of the English Civil War
The Background and Outbreak of the English Civil War TBA
as Presenter
- The Somme 1916: Mansel Copse
The Somme 1916: Mansel Copse TBA
as Presenter
- SAS and the Normandy Campaign: Operation Bulbasket
SAS and the Normandy Campaign: Operation Bulbasket TBA
as Director and Presenter
- Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Last Gamble
Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Last Gamble TBA
as Presenter
- Battle of the Bulge: German Field Artillery
Battle of the Bulge: German Field Artillery TBA
as Presenter
- Battle of the Bulge: An Intelligence Failure?
Battle of the Bulge: An Intelligence Failure? TBA
as Presenter
- Siege Warfare 1812: Ciudad Rodrigo & Badajoz - The Keys to Spain
Siege Warfare 1812: Ciudad Rodrigo & Badajoz - The Keys to Spain TBA
as Presenter
- The 42nd of Foot - Black Watch - Dress and Equipment at Waterloo
The 42nd of Foot - Black Watch - Dress and Equipment at Waterloo TBA
as Director and Editor
- Victory and Pursuit: The Waterloo Collection - Part 4
Victory and Pursuit: The Waterloo Collection - Part 4 TBA
as Presenter
- Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges - Part 1
Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges - Part 1 TBA
as Director and Presenter
- The Waterloo Collection: Hougoumont and D'Erlon's Attack
The Waterloo Collection: Hougoumont and D'Erlon's Attack TBA
as Presenter
- Battle of the Bulge: Kampfgruppe Peiper
Battle of the Bulge: Kampfgruppe Peiper 2016
as Presenter
- Battle of the Bulge: Saint Vith
Battle of the Bulge: Saint Vith 2015
as Presenter

The Saint Nazaire Raid: Operation Chariot - The Greatest Raid 2015
as Presenter & Director
- 100 Years War: Poitiers 1356
100 Years War: Poitiers 1356 2015
as Presenter

Second Ypres 1915: The Great Gas Attack 2015
as Presenter
- The 95th Rifles 1809 - 1812
The 95th Rifles 1809 - 1812 2015
as Presenter and Writer, Director
- 95th Rifles 1800 to Corunna
95th Rifles 1800 to Corunna 2015
as Presenter, Director
- Battles of the Marne & the Aisne
Battles of the Marne & the Aisne 2015
as Presenter
- The Schlieffen Plan
The Schlieffen Plan 2015
as Presenter
- First Ypres 1914 and the Race to the Sea
First Ypres 1914 and the Race to the Sea 2015
as Presenter and Director
- Battle of the Bulge: Siege of Bastogne
Battle of the Bulge: Siege of Bastogne 2015
as Presenter
- The Germans in Normandy: 6th Fallschirmjaeger
The Germans in Normandy: 6th Fallschirmjaeger 2015
as Presenter
- 95th Rifles: 1812 to the Pyrenees
95th Rifles: 1812 to the Pyrenees 2014
as Presenter
- Néry and the Retreat from Mons
Néry and the Retreat from Mons 2014
as Presenter

Bletchley Park and the Ultra Secret 2014
as Presenter & Director
- Le Cateau
Le Cateau 2014
as Presenter and Director
- Mons 1914
Mons 1914 2014
as Presenter and Director
- Assault on Normandy: Pointe du Hoc
Assault on Normandy: Pointe du Hoc 2014
as Presenter and Director
- Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beachhead
Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beachhead 2013
as Presenter
- Assault on Normandy: 6th Airborne
Assault on Normandy: 6th Airborne 2013
as Presenter
- Battle of the Bulge: Panzer Marche - The Dash for Bastogne
Battle of the Bulge: Panzer Marche - The Dash for Bastogne 2013
as Himself - Presenter
- 100 Years War: Agincourt 1415
100 Years War: Agincourt 1415 2013
as Presenter
- 100 Years War: Crecy 1346
100 Years War: Crecy 1346 2013
as Presenter
- Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beaches
Assault on Normandy: Gold Beach - Battle for the Beaches 2013
as Presenter, Director
- Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle for the Oosterbeek Perimeter
Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle for the Oosterbeek Perimeter 2012
as Presenter, Director
- Operation Market Garden: Nijmegen
Operation Market Garden: Nijmegen 2012
as Presenter
- Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle of the Woods
Operation Market Garden: Arnhem - Battle of the Woods 2012
as Director and Presenter

Bruneval Raid: Operation Biting 2012
as Presenter
- Salamanca
Salamanca 2012
as Presenter

SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 2 - Destruction of the French railways 2012
as Presenter, Director

SAS Operation Bulbasket: Part 1 - Das Reich and Oradour 2012
as Presenter
- Assault on Normandy: Sword Beach
Assault on Normandy: Sword Beach 2012
as Presenter, Editor
- 12th Hitlerjugend Panzer Division
12th Hitlerjugend Panzer Division 2012
as Presenter
- Cavalry Charge: La Haie Sainte & Plancenoit - The French and Prussian Attacks
Cavalry Charge: La Haie Sainte & Plancenoit - The French and Prussian Attacks 2011
as Presenter
- The Waterloo Collection: Ligny and Quatre Bras - Part 1
The Waterloo Collection: Ligny and Quatre Bras - Part 1 2011
as Presenter
- Assault on Normandy: Pegasus Bridge
Assault on Normandy: Pegasus Bridge 2010
as Presenter
- Wittmann v Ekins: The Death of a Panzer Ace
Wittmann v Ekins: The Death of a Panzer Ace 2010
as Presenter
- The 1066 Hastings Campaign
The 1066 Hastings Campaign 2009
as Presenter
- The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 AD
The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878 AD 2009
as Himself - Presenter and Writer, Director, Editor
- The Race to the Sea - 1914
The Race to the Sea - 1914 1914
as Presenter
Credits from TMDB.