The World Wars

📊 Series Specifications

Network History
Episode Runtime ~90 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 3
Original Language EN

The World Wars (2014)

⭐ 3.8 / 5 (28 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 3 Episodes 🏷️ Documentary, War & Politics 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

The story of three decades of war told through the eyes of various men who were its key players: Roosevelt, Hitler, Patton, Mussolini, Churchill, Tojo, DeGaulle and MacArthur. The series examines the two wars as one contiguous timeline starting in 1914 and concluding in 1945 with these unique individuals coming of age in World War I before ultimately calling the shots in World War II.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Trial by Fire

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.

E2 A Rising Threat

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.

E3 Never Surrender

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.