The World Wars
WW1 made Roosevelt a man. WW2 made him a legend.
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
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ian Beyts
Winston Churchill
David Mitchum Brown
Harry S. Truman
C. Conrad Cady
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Jonathan Hartman
Benito Mussolini
Don Meehan Jr
Charles DeGaulle
Michael Perrie Jr.
Young DeGaulle
Jacopo Rampini
Young Stalin
Daniel Martin Berkey
Elder General Douglas MacArthur
Jeremy Renner
Narrator
Nabil Viñas
Young Mussolini
Tom Vickers
Young Churchill
Joseph Scott Barbarino
Joseph Stalin
Matt Dearman
Young Patton
Prescott Hathaway
Young MacArthur
Seasons & Episodes
E1Trial by Fire
May 26, 2014
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.
E2A Rising Threat
May 27, 2014
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.
E3Never Surrender
May 28, 2014
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.
Storyline
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.
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