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The World Wars

The World Wars

S1 · E1

IMDB:

7.2
The World Wars

Released

5/26/2014

Duration

1h 30m

Genre

Documentary, War & Politics

Country

United States of America

Cast

Dean Gosdin, Ian Beyts, David Mitchum Brown

Overview

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.

Episodes

Trial by FireEP 1Available

Trial by Fire

90m8.0

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.

A Rising ThreatEP 2Available

A Rising Threat

90m0.0

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.

Never SurrenderEP 3Available

Never Surrender

90m0.0

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.

Cast

Dean Gosdin

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Dean Gosdin

Ian Beyts

Winston Churchill

Ian Beyts

David Mitchum Brown

Harry S. Truman

David Mitchum Brown

C. Conrad Cady

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

C. Conrad Cady

Jonathan Hartman

Benito Mussolini

Jonathan Hartman

Don Meehan Jr

Charles DeGaulle

Don Meehan Jr

Michael Perrie Jr.

Young DeGaulle

Michael Perrie Jr.

Jacopo Rampini

Young Stalin

Jacopo Rampini

Daniel Martin Berkey

Elder General Douglas MacArthur

Daniel Martin Berkey

Jeremy Renner

Narrator

Jeremy Renner

Nabil Viñas

Young Mussolini

Nabil Viñas

Tom Vickers

Young Churchill

Tom Vickers

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