Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (series)
- Production country: GB
- Production companies: Blakeway Productions
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 1/9/2003
- Release date of last episode: 2/13/2003
- Series status: Ended
- Seasons count: 1 ( List of episodes )
- Episodes count: 6
- Run time: 50 min.
Series description
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?