Description |
6 videodisc (DVD)s (ca. 50 min. ea.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
Summary |
Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson presents a major six part documentary proposing an explosive challenge to common assumptions about the 20th century. According to Porfessor Ferguson, we need to rethink our understanding of the 20th century. There were not, he says, two world wars and a cold war, but a single Hundred Years' War |
Contents |
Pt. 1. The clash of the empires -- Pt. 2. The plan -- Pt 3. Killing space -- Pt. 4. A tainted victory -- Pt. 5. The Icebox -- Pt 6. The descent of the West |
Notes |
Off-air recording of ABC1 broadcast October 22, 29, November 5, 12, 19, 26 2009. Copied under Part VA of the Copyright Act |
|
Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
|
Rated: PG, No rating given (episode specific) |
|
DVD |
Credits |
Writer: Niall Ferguson ; Producer: Melanie Fall ; Series Director: Adrian Pennink |
Performer |
Presenter: Niall Ferguson ; Narrator: Paterson Joseph |
Notes |
Originally produced : Blakeway Productions, 2008 |
Subject |
War -- 20th century
|
|
Wars history -- 20th century
|
|
War and civilization -- 20th century
|
|
War and crime -- History -- 20th century
|
Author |
Ferguson, Niall
|
|
Fall, Melanie
|
|
Pennick, Adrian
|
|
Joseph, Paterson
|
|
ABC-TV (Australia)
|
|