The World Wars

Season 1

2014 · 3 episodes · 4h 30m in all · 8.0/10

Episodes

1. 

   1. Trial by Fire

   26 May 2014 · 90 min · 8.0/10

   An assassin's bullet starts a global conflict that escalates into a deadly war; a new generation of soldiers emerges, including future world leaders such as Winston Churchill, Charles De Gaulle, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin; tanks and chemical weapons enter the battlefield.

2. 

   2. A Rising Threat

   27 May 2014 · 90 min

   The Allies turn Germany away from France; leaders are dissatisfied with the Treaty of Versailles; Germany's economy collapses with the end of the war; Hitler begins his rise to power; Lenin overthrows the tsarist government in Russia.

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   3. Never Surrender

   28 May 2014 · 90 min

   The entire world plunges into an economic depression; Josef Stalin seizes power; Japan makes plans to dominate Asia; Adolf Hitler begins taking back the territory Germany lost.