Miniseries
8 episodes · Sep 8, 2018
From the armistice of 1918, which marked the end of the First World War, to the declaration of war in September 1939, the beginning of the Second World War: an era during which there was an aspiration to create a new world, prosperous and at peace, but which provoked a new tragedy, seen through the destinies of thirteen people who were both actors and witnesses of the upheavals of the so-called inter-war period.
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S1E1Survival
Sep 8, 201853mIn November 1918, Germany surrenders to the allies, bringing the First World War to an end. Monarchies and empires are swept away and all across Europe people struggle to survive.
S1E2Peace
Sep 8, 201853mThe 1919 peace conference in Paris brings together the great powers that defeated Germany to ratify the treaty of Versailles.
S1E3Decisions
Sep 8, 201853mThe economic situation worsens with inflation and high unemployment. As famine strikes the people, riots erupt in many countries of Europe.
S1E4Revolution
Sep 9, 201853mMoscow becomes the centre of international revolutionary fervour attracting freedom fighters and intellectuals from all over the world.
S1E5Crash
Sep 9, 201853mThe twenties are a period of heady consumerism and wild financial speculation. But everything will change when the bubble bursts.
S1E6Promises
Sep 9, 201853mBy 1932 the global economic crisis has led to record mass unemployment with violent street battles between left and right.
S1E7Treason
Sep 10, 201853mMid 1930s: Germany reaches full employment and in Spain the civil war breaks out.
S1E8War
Sep 10, 201853m1938: Austria is annexed by Germany, the pogrom of Kristallnacht destroys Jewish shops and synagogues as war draws ever closer.