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A Sweeping Look At Nearly Five Decades Of Global History, A Crystallization Of A Massive, Three-year-long Effort Helmed By Award-winning Documentarian Jeremy Isaacs (the World At War). Isaacs's Team Shot More Than 1,000 Hours Of Original Footage And Gathered Archival Footage From All Over The World To Include Historically Important, And Often Emotionally Stunning, Images, Many Never Before Seen By An International Audience. Disc 1. Comrades (1917-1945); Iron Curtain (1945-1947); Marshall Plan (1947-1952); Berlin (1948-1949) -- Disc 2. Korea (1949-1953); Reds (1947-1953); After Stalin (1953-1956); Sputnik (1949-1961) -- Disc 3. The Wall (1958-1963); Cuba (1959-1962); Vietnam (1954-1968); Mad (1960-1972) -- Disc 4. Make Love, Not War (the 1960s); Red Spring (the 1960s); China (1949-1972); Detente (1969-1975) -- Disc 5. Good Guys, Bad Guys (1967-1978); Backyard (1954-1990); Freeze, (1977-1981); Soldiers Of God (1975-1988) -- Disc 6. Spies (1944-1994); Star Wars (1980-1988); The Wall Comes Down (1989); Conclusions (1989-1991). A Jeremy Isaacs Production For Turner Original Productions, Inc.; Series Producer, Martin Smith. Dual-layer. Title From Container. Contains All 24 Episodes Of The Television Series That Aired On Cnn In 1998. Special Features: Documentary, The Hoaxters; And Castro: In His Own Words. Music, Carl Davis; Editors, Emma Black, Shelagh Brady, Alexander Dunlop... [et Al.]. Narrator: Kenneth Branagh. Dvd; Region 1; Ntsc; Widescreen Presentation; Dolby Digital Stereo. English Dialogue; French Or Spanish Subtitles; English Subtitles For The Deaf And Hard Of Hearing.