An eight-part chronicle of armed conflict from the beginning of recorded history to modern times, exploring the political and cultural motivations for---and consequences of---warfare.
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Air Date: 1998-08-02
A look at the origins of modern warfare, when ancient Greek soldiers marched in formations called phalanxes. Also: Al...
Air Date: 1998-08-09
The empires of ancient Rome and China, begun before the birth of Christ, which were hubs of cultural development desp...
Air Date: 1998-08-16
A look at the impact that horses had on warfare, which enabled Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan to rule over vast terr...
Air Date: 1998-08-23
"Gunpowder" forever changed the way wars were fought, both in an army's weapons and methods of defense. Also: arming ...
Air Date: 1998-08-30
England gains a stronghold in America after the Seven Years' War in 1763, but is eventually challenged, and defeated,...
Air Date: 1998-09-06
The Industrial Revolution creates more mechanized warfare, as trains and mass-produced weapons are tested in the Crim...
Air Date: 1998-09-13
Included: America fulfills its "manifest destiny"; colonialism expands in Africa and India; and World War I spawns th...
Air Date: 1998-09-20
"The Price of War" looks at the end of World War II and the atomic bomb, and the tension of the Cold War. Also: fight...