Guns: The Evolution of Firearms

Overall, it was educational for someone not knowledgeable about the history of firearms. I thought the history of muskets both British and American was well done as far as rifled and smooth bore. There was a lot of repetition with the same expert repeating himself in different episodes. The documentary mentions Gatling Guns being invented at the end of the Civil War, but not used till the Spanish-American war. They were used in some of the later Indian wars. Custer was supposed to take two with him for Little Big Horn. He left them cause he thought they would slow him down. But as to the legends completely left out was the German WW2 mg34 and the mg42. Almost all machine guns today were influenced by the historical weapons.