Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

Name: Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2003-01-09T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 50 min
Rating: 4
Cast: Niall Ferguson

How did Britain come to rule the world? asks Niall Ferguson in Empire. What would today's world be like now if it hadn't? Could such an organisation – run by, according to Winston Churchill, 'the greedy trader, the inopportune missionary, the ambitious soldier and the lying spectator' – ever have been a force for good?