The World Wars

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.

First Air Date: 2014-05-26

Last Air Date: 2014-05-28

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 3

Networks: History

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Top Cast

Daniel Martin Berkey as General Douglas MacArthur
Dean Gosdin as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ian Beyts as Winston Churchill
David Mitchum Brown as Harry S. Truman
C. Conrad Cady as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Jonathan Hartman as Benito Mussolini
Don Meehan Jr as Charles DeGaulle
Michael Perrie Jr. as Young DeGaulle
Jacopo Rampini as Young Stalin
Jeremy Renner as Narrator

Seasons

Season 1 (2014)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Trial by Fire (2014-05-26)

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.
Ep. 2: A Rising Threat (2014-05-27)

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.
Ep. 3: Never Surrender (2014-05-28)

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.