Empire

Empire

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Hosted by veteran BBC broadcaster Jeremy Paxman (The Victorians), this five-part series examines the impact of the empire and how it continues to exert an influence today.
IMDb 7,420125 afleveringen13+
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  1. S1 AFL. 1 - A Taste for Power

    26 februari 2012
    59min.
    13+
    In India, the British learn the art of imperialism, using local rulers and troops to maintain power. But it is little more than a confidence trick, an enormous bluff-and as the mutiny of 1857 shows, it's only a matter of time before that bluff is called.
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  2. S1 AFL. 2 - Making Ourselves at Home

    4 maart 2012
    58min.
    13+
    While early British traders adopt local Indian customs, later arrivals impose Victorian values and try to mold the country into a version of England.
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  3. S1 AFL. 3 - Playing the Game

    11 maart 2012
    58min.
    13+
    The empire gives rise to a peculiarly British type of hero-the gentleman adventurer whose values are honed on the sports fields of England's public schools, where how you play the game is more important than winning.
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  4. S1 AFL. 4 - Making a Fortune

    18 maart 2012
    58min.
    13+
    British privateers prey on Spanish wealth in the Caribbean, but theft is soon replaced by trade, including the slave trade of Africans to work the islands' sugar plantations.
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  5. S1 AFL. 5 - Doing Good

    25 maart 2012
    59min.
    13+
    The drive for conquest also becomes a mission to help the rest of mankind, especially in "the dark continent" of Africa, where David Livingstone sets out to save souls for Christ and the people from Arab and Portuguese slavers.
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