S1.E1 ∙ Smoke & Mirrors

Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan in 1590, but Date Masamune did not abandon his desire to control the nation.

This series is based on the autobiographic trilogy of Arturo Barea, from his childhood in Madrid to his enrollment in the Moroccan army, his steps in the Spanish Civil War, until exile.

The series tells the story of Hermann Steputat, born in 1934, in the village of Jokehnen in Eastern Prussia. The day he is born is also the day Hitler comes to power in Germany, and Hermann grows up under the Nazi regime and during the years of WWII. At first, it seems the village can survive the war, but eventually the Soviets break through the defenses and march into Eastern Prussia. The attempt to of the villagers to join the trek of replaced Germans towards the West is stopped by the Soviet troops, the men from the village are sent to Siberia; women and children are initially sent back to the village, but when the region becomes part of Poland, they are evicted and sent West to Germany under appalling conditions.

The year 1540 was a crucial turning point in American history. The Great Indian Wars were incited by Francisco Vazquez de Coronado when his expedition to the Great Plains launched the inevitable 350-year struggle between the white man and the American Indians. From that point forward, the series of battles between the military and civilian forces of the United States and the native American Indians began when blood was shed and ultimately tens of thousands of lives were lost on both sides. The Battle of Tippicanoe, the Battle of Horseshoe Band, all three Seminole Wars and the Battle of Little Big Horn were some of the most important conflicts that led up to the last massacre, the Battle of Wounded Knee, where America's landscape would be forever changed!

The story of Ukrainian revolutionary anarchist, Nestor Makhno, as he fights for a free state during the Russian Revolution. Will anarchism prevail or will Ukraine fall to western or eastern power?