The Price Of Empire
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The Price Of Empire

Season 1
The wars of east and west that fused to become World War II remade the political map of the world. This is the story of how a world, centuries in the making, was completely remade in a couple of decades. The story of how traditional powers fell from greatness as new forces rose to make the modern world. The story of those that could pay, and those that could no longer meet, The Price of Empire.
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - The Gathering Storm

    March 25, 2017
    50min
    TV-14
    The second world war ended more than 70 years ago, but wars never end. For those who fought the memories are indestructible. To understand something so profound we must start before the beginning with what Churchill called, The Gathering Storm.
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  2. S1 E2 - The Phoney War

    April 1, 2017
    50min
    TV-14
    Japan unprovoked invasion had plunged China into war and Europe had been brought to the brink of conflict. In Italy Mussolini introduced fascism to the political landscape and Hitler dismantled democracy. Their expansion threatened neighboring nations.
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  3. S1 E3 - Blitzkrieg

    April 6, 2017
    50min
    TV-14
    Six months have passed with very little action in the Phony War. That is about to end and a new word is added to the vocabulary of warfare - Blitzkrieg.
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  4. S1 E4 - Alone

    April 6, 2017
    50min
    TV-14
    Six months after the fall of France, V. Molotov visited Berlin to discuss how the world was to be divided after victory. He was told Britain was defeated. But Britain wasn't beaten. Just alone.
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  5. S1 E5 - Barbarossa

    April 9, 2017
    50min
    TV-14
    In 1941 Britain is holding its own, although it is still threatened. Japan took action that made world war two truly global, but before that, the story of the second world war is to be transformed by a single word: Barbarossa.
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  6. S1 E6 - A Date in Infamy

    April 29, 2017
    50min
    TV-14
    Before 1941 was half over, the Soviet Union was locked in struggle with Germany. Before the year was out, humanity would be hanging on the fate of Roosevelt's great union, compelled to join the struggle by what he termed 'a date which will live in infamy.'
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  7. S1 E7 - The Turning Point

    October 15, 2015
    50min
    TV-14
    It took Hitler half a war to gain an empire But it would also take him half a war to lose one Japan also wound up growing and growing only to start to fall about halfway through the war.
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  8. S1 E8 - The End of the Beginning

    April 29, 2017
    50min
    TV-14
    There was a plot that eventually Germany, headed east and Japan, heading west, would eventually join up in the Indian subcontinent to make a massive territory. But too many setbacks in 1942 marked the end of the beginning.
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  9. S1 E9 - The Beginning of the End

    October 15, 2015
    50min
    TV-14
    The United Nations planned how best to secure victory and how to arrange the post war world at conference after conference. The Allies fought one war on two fronts. The Axis fought two wars. For both, 1943 would mark the beginning of the end.
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  10. S1 E10 - Overlord

    May 13, 2017
    50min
    TV-14
    In 1943, the Axis was on the defensive everywhere. In 1944, The Allies strength would grow in the East, and in the Soviet Union with the opening of the second front.
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  11. S1 E11 - Hell is on Us

    May 13, 2017
    50min
    TV-14
    After starting on the second front, the Allies broke out of Normandy and launch the Red Army. In the East, the invasion of the Philippines will bring the Allies one step closer to the home islands.
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  12. S1 E12 - Unconditional Surrender

    May 17, 2017
    50min
    TV-14
    The war was started solely by Germany's and Japan's acts of aggression. But in 1944 they are being driven from the lands that they had conquered and are being pressured to an act of unconditional surrender.
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  13. S1 E13 - A Thousand Suns

    May 22, 2017
    50min
    TV-14
    After years of war, the defeat of Hitler and the Third Reich is inevitable. Peace in Asia will follow peace in Europe after the detonation of the atomic bomb.
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