2013

Summary 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. View more details

2013

History's Verdict

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Jonathan D. Mellor

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Genres : History War Biography Documentary

Release date : Dec 31, 2012

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Summary 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. View more details

Details

Genres : History War Biography Documentary

Release date : Dec 31, 2012

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

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Charles de Gaulle in History's Verdict (2013)

Winston Churchill in History's Verdict (2013)

Franklin D. Roosevelt in History's Verdict (2013)

Heinrich Himmler in History's Verdict (2013)

Adolf Hitler in History's Verdict (2013)

George S. Patton in History's Verdict (2013)

Bernard L. Montgomery in History's Verdict (2013)

Erwin Rommel in History's Verdict (2013)

Dwight D. Eisenhower in History's Verdict (2013)

Douglas MacArthur in History's Verdict (2013)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Jan 04, 2013

Hitler

Featuring newly declassified revelations, testimony from the world's greatest historians and thinkers, the chilling words of the Führer himself, and those of his closest henchmen.

Episode 2 • Jan 11, 2013

Churchill

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

Episode 3 • Jan 18, 2013

De Gaulle

Charles De Gaulle was the leader of Free France from 1940-1944, and was the dominant figure of France during the Cold War era. His memory continues to influence French Politics.

Episode 4 • Jan 25, 2013

Roosevelt

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

Episode 5 • Feb 01, 2013

Stalin

Examines the story of the Georgian revolutionary Joseph Stalin as he leads the Soviet Union until his death in 1953.

Episode 6 • Feb 08, 2013

Eisenhower

Ike's public image is frequently overshadowed by more attention-grabbing colleagues. Cases in point: General Patton, his World War 2 subordinate; and JFK, his successor as President of the United States of America.

Episode 7 • Jan 11, 2013

Mussolini

Examines the story of the Italian leader of the National Fascist party, Benito Mussolini, who became an ally to Hitler.

Episode 8 • Feb 24, 2013

MacArthur

He was a US Army general who was also the only ever Field Marshal of the Philippine Army, and this symbolizes MacArthur's visionary belief that Asia would dominate the future of the world.

Episode 9 • Feb 28, 2013

Hirohito

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.

Episode 10 • Feb 28, 2013

Patton

The son of a rich, distinguished family, the young Patton loved the Classics and history, was an Olympic athlete and "master of the Sword". But he also had revolutionary ideas about how the US Army should fight modern wars. Ideas he tested against reality in action in Mexico and the Great War.

Episode 11 • Mar 14, 2013

Himmler

The infamous SS is also examined in detail. Were they just the machinery of murder? What other duties did they perform to help the Nazi war effort, and what about their sense of pride and code of honour?

Episode 12 • Feb 17, 2013

Montgomery

Rarely explored aspects of his life will be uncovered: his childhood as the son of a Bishop and a mother who didn't love him. His near death experiences in the battlefields of the Great War. His campaign against the IRA in the 1920s, which gained him the respect of the Republicans he fought.

Episode 13 • Mar 28, 2013

Rommel

Erwin Rommel has achieved almost legendary status as the German Field Marshall of World war Two? Mainly for his cunning in outwitting and outmanoeuvring his allied enemies he is now known as the desert fox.

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