TV series
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
2003 · 1 season
A brisk, argumentative lecture with maps and archive footage, asking you to weigh moral questions while it briskly surveys centuries of global history.
- Created by
- Adrian Pennink, David Wilson
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Niall Ferguson
- Overview
- How did Britain come to rule the world? asks Niall Ferguson in Empire. What would today's world be like now if it hadn't? Could such an organisation – run by, according to Winston Churchill, 'the greedy trader, the inopportune missionary, the ambitious soldier and the lying spectator' – ever have been a force for good?
- How it feels
- Measured and demanding.
- About
- Power, colonialism, class, politics
- Content
- Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Created by
- Adrian Pennink, David Wilson
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Niall Ferguson
