The World Wars

7.9
2014 Documentary , War & Politics

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.

  • Cast:
    Dean Gosdin , David Mitchum Brown , C. Conrad Cady , Jacopo Rampini , Jeremy Renner , Sewell Whitney , Joseph K. Bevilacqua , Daniel Martin Berkey , Jody Matzer

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