All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Utopia in Power (1917-1928)

    • October 6, 1999
    • Arte

    This volume covers 1900 to 1928, a period which saw the death of Lenin, the creation of the KGB and the coming to power of Stalin.

  • S01E02 The Two Faces of Communism (1929-1939)

    • October 13, 1999
    • Arte

    This episode includes Stalin's purge, Communism the defender of democracy, the great famine of the Ukraine and the Spanish civil war.

  • S01E03 The Peak Years (1940-1953)

    • October 20, 1999
    • Arte

    This episode includes the defeat of Germany, the take over of Eastern Europe, the Korean War and the Cold War.

  • S01E04 End Without End (1953-1999)

    • October 27, 1999
    • Arte

    This episode includes Stalin's death and Krushchev taking power, uprisings crushed in East Germany and Hungary, the propaganda of the space race, Castro taking over Cuba, Vietnam, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the unleashing of freedom, the remnants of a discredited philosophy.