Season 1 • Episode 3
LatestWith communism discredited, more and more nations harness their fortunes to the global free-market. China, Southeast Asia, India, Eastern Europe, and Latin America all compete to attract the developed world's investment capital, and tariff barriers fall. In the United States Republican and Democratic administrations both embrace unfettered globalization over the objections of organized labor. But as new technology and ideas drive profound economic change, unforeseen events unfold.
Direction
Rare access to Thatcher, Gorbachev, Yeltsin at pivotal moments
Editing
Complex policy made genuinely gripping through personal stories
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Daniel Yergin's Pulitzer-winning book; the series premiered right as 9/11 shifted global priorities, making its optimism about open markets feel almost quaint now.
The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis footage captures real-time panic that would repeat in 2008—watching officials realize their system failed is genuinely haunting.
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