Season 1
(2012)
Cast
as Narrator
Episodes
Chapter 1 - World War Two 7.2
November 12, 2012
The first chapter explores the birth of the American Empire by focusing on Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and…
Chapter 2 - Roosevelt, Truman & Wallace 7.5
November 19, 2012
Highlights from the historical upset of Harry Truman replacing Henry Wallace as Roosevelt's Vice President. Exploration…
Chapter 3 - The Bomb 7.4
November 26, 2012
The strategies behind the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan are explored as well as the new mythology that emerged from the…
Chapter 4 - The Cold War - 1945-1950 6.5
December 3, 2012
The equation changes: specific month-by-month causes of the Cold War emerge and it is not entirely clear who started it…
Chapter 5 - The 50s: Eisenhower, the Bomb & the Third World 7.5
December 10, 2012
Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles replace Truman. Stalin dies but relations with the Soviet Union turn colder. The H-bo…
Chapter 6 - JFK: To the Brink 7.2
December 17, 2012
JFK and the Bay of Pigs; on the brink of total war during Cuban Missile Crisis; early Vietnam; JFK's attempts at peace …
Chapter 7 - Johnson, Nixon & Vietnam: Reversal of Fortune 8.0
December 24, 2012
The war in Vietnam reaches a turning point; President Nixon's involvement in Watergate comes to light.
Chapter 8 - Reagan, Gorbachev & Third World: Rise of the Right 8.5
December 31, 2012
Ronald Reagan succeeds Jimmy Carter; Reagan and the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev powwow; and Reagan's legacy is exa…
Chapter 9 - Bush & Clinton: American Triumphalism - New World Order 7.3
January 7, 2013
George W. Bush and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; the U.S. economy; the end of the Cold War; and national security i…
Chapter 10 - Bush & Obama: Age of Terror 8.0
January 14, 2013
In the finale, the war on terrorism and the presidential administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama are examine…