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  • TV Episode | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

The Century of Warfare

The Violent Century (Season 1, Episode 1)
TV Episode | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

This first program looks at the background to the wars which have convulsed our planet, and technological advances which have transformed warfare. From the Boer War to the Gulf War From Cavalry to the main Battle Tank From Biplane Fighters...See moreThis first program looks at the background to the wars which have convulsed our planet, and technological advances which have transformed warfare. From the Boer War to the Gulf War From Cavalry to the main Battle Tank From Biplane Fighters to the Stealth Bomber From the Battleship to the Trident Submarine. Written by Anonymous See less
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Updated Oct 18, 1993

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Oct 18, 1993 (United States)

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86 cast members
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Robert Powell
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Dai Bao
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Fulgencio Batista
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David Beatty
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Ahmed Ben Bella
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Subhas Chandra Bose
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Semyon Budyonny
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Al Capone
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Fidel Castro
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Maurice Challe
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Violeta Chamorro
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Kai-Shek Chiang
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Madame Chiang
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Teh Chu
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Winston Churchill
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Gabriele D'Annunzio
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The Dalai Lama
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Charles Dawes
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Christian de Castries
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Charles de Gaulle
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Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
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Eamon de Valera
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Francisco Franco
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Mikhail Frunze
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Leopoldo Galtieri
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Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Joseph Goebbels
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Yakubu Gowon
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Hermann Göring
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Rudolf Hess
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Hirohito
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Adolf Hitler
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Earl Jellicoe
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Kaiser Wilhelm II
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Jomo Kenyatta
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Il-Sung Kim
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King Alfonso XIII
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King Baudouin
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King George VI
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Vladimir Lenin
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Erich Ludendorff
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Douglas MacArthur
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Archbishop Makarios
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Zedong Mao
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George C. Marshall
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Yôsuke Matsuoka
Self (archive footage) (as Yosuke Matsuoka) Self (archive footage) (as Yosuke Matsuoka)   See fewer
Vyacheslav Molotov
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Bernard L. Montgomery
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Edwina Mountbatten
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Louis Mountbatten
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Benito Mussolini
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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Pat Nixon
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Richard Nixon
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Manuel Noriega
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Odumegwu Ojukwu
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Daniel Ortega
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Lan Ping
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Miguel Primo de Rivera
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Prince Philip
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Puyi
Self (archive footage) (as Henry Pu-yi) Self (archive footage) (as Henry Pu-yi)   See fewer
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
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Matthew B. Ridgway
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Ernst Röhm
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Raoul Salan
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Mobutu Sese Seko
Self (archive footage) (as Gen. Sese Mobutu) Self (archive footage) (as Gen. Sese Mobutu)   See fewer
Haile Selassie
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Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage) (as Iosif Stalin) Self (archive footage) (as Iosif Stalin)   See fewer
Joseph W. Stilwell
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Sukarno
Self (archive footage) (as Dr. Ahmed Sukarno) Self (archive footage) (as Dr. Ahmed Sukarno)   See fewer
Yat-sen Sun
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Gerald Templar
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U Thant
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Lev Trotskiy
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Harry S. Truman
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Moise Tshombe
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Mikhail Tukhachevsky
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Werner von Blomberg
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Werner von Fritsch
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Paul von Hindenburg
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Woodrow Wilson
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Jiang Zemin
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Enlai Zhou
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