Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
TV ShowTitle | Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Jan 9, 2003 |
Release date of last episode | Feb 13, 2003 |
Genre | Documentary |
Production country | GB |
Production companies | Blakeway Productions |
Series status | Ended |
Seasons count | 1 (List of episodes) |
Episodes count | 6 |
Run time | 50 min. |
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?