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History's Verdict

  • 2013
  • Ended
  • Documentary · War & Politics
  • ~10h 55m / ep
  • 1 season
  • 6.5/10

A group of history experts from London's King's College has created this documentary series that tries to assess the key political figures of WWII.

Latest: Season 1 · 2013

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  1. E1. Stalin

    Jan 5, 2013 · 60m

    Via stunning contemporary footage, freshly declassified discoveries, a brilliant script, insights from the greatest historians of the past seventy years and the unforgettable words of the dictator himself and the people who knew him best, we deliver History's Verdict on Stalin.

  2. E2. Mussolini

    Jan 12, 2013 · 59m

    A skilled journalist and a master spin doctor, Mussolini created immensely powerful myths about himself and his regime. Myths that have endured for over 70 years, baffling both his contemporaries and modern historians in equal measure. Myths that have allowed Il Duce to escape history's definitive verdict...until now.

  3. E3. Hitler

    Jan 19, 2013 · 59m

    A magnificent script fuses stunning images of his life and times, newly declassified revelations, testimony from the world's greatest historians and thinkers, and the chilling words of the Fuhrer himself and those of his closest henchmen to deliver History's Verdict on Hitler.

  4. E4. Churchill

    Jan 28, 2013 · 59m

    Beginning with the fall of France in the Summer of 1940, and the defence of the island of Britain itself, Churchill's military decisions and simultaneous diplomatic efforts to gather an alliance, are explored. His defiant stand, at home and abroad, are central to his achievement, and his galvanising effect on his people and armed services is shown to be pivotal to British, and world, history

  5. E5. Roosevelt

    Feb 2, 2013 · 59m

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States, leading America through a time of worldwide economic depression and total war.

  6. E6. Hirohito

    Feb 4, 2013 · 59m

    Extraordinary images, brilliant writing, the latest declassified information, witnesses from among the greatest historians, and the hitherto unknown words of the Emperor himself deliver History's Verdict on Hirohito.

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