

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?
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Season 1
6 eps · 2003-01-09
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World airing schedule, episode calendar, cast, and synopsis. Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World airs on Channel 4.