
A documentary in which controversial historian Professor Niall Ferguson argues that in the last century there were not in fact two World Wars and a Cold War, but rather a single Hundred Years' War. A compelling argument is made to consider all of the conflicts of the 20th century in a broader context.
Air Date: 2006-06-19
The first episode in the series shows that in 1900 the world was dominated by Empires that were both multinational an...
Air Date: 2006-07-26
In the aftermath of the First World War, the whole world was entranced by an American dream. America stood for new fr...
Air Date: 2006-07-03
1942 was the year that the 20th century teetered on a knife-edge. It was the year when the whole world map appeared t...
Air Date: 2006-07-10
The years from 1943 to 1945 were the cataclysmic crux of the 20th Century's war of the world. But the defeat of the G...
Air Date: 2006-07-17
We remember the Cold War as a nuclear-powered peace that came terrifyingly close to falling apart. But there were man...
Air Date: 2006-07-24
When the Berlin Wall finally fell, the 20th century seemed to have reached its climax. Optimists believed they were w...