I just finished S1E03, The Battle of Midway, as I've been studying that particular fight for some 35 years.

The episode is perfectly accurate for the mid-90s thinking regarding the battle, which is to say, not considered accurate now. As more historians learned Japanese and were able to study primary sources in the language, more and more we discovered that much of what we thought we knew about Midway was wrong.

It does get the broad facts correct, and really, the first seventy or eighty minutes are really quite good. There's quite a bit wrong about the events of June 4th, though, even before the modern view of the battle took hold.

For example, the show kept saying that the second strike on Midway was ready to go when the first strike was returning from the island, and was held to allow the planes to land. This is wrong; the planes were still rearming when the Japanese received information about the US carriers. Then they started to rearm the planes for anti-ship work; this was never completed, even after the landing of the first strike.

On the whole, however, the episode isn't "point-at-and-laugh" incorrect about anything, given what was known at the time. It gets some timing incorrect, but again, nothing earth-shattering.

It's above-average in quality for a TV show on the battle, perhaps the best I've seen on Midway. It can't help not knowing what wasn't known by US historians of the time.

Take that for what it's worth.

tl;dr This is PBS' "Battlefield" series from the mid 90s.

This may be wasting your time but under the fold for the description the author tries to pretend he's not committing theft of intellectual property (no showing the entire thing on your personal youtube channel isn't fair use) but also gives information about the background of the source:

I do not own, nor do I or intend to profit from this content whatsoever. "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use." All right reserved to: NBC Universal Directed by Dave Flitton, Andy Aitken, Justin McCarthy ... Distributed by Public Broadcasting Service Release date(s) 1994 Running time 6 116-minute episodes

so this is the imdb page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120926/

Having not seen the videos i can't pass judgement on them but this is where it comes from.