Apcalypse.War.Of.The.Worlds.2019.S01E02 Movie Subtitles

1 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:11,000 (upbeat jazz music playing) 2 00:00:15,050 --> 00:00:18,040 NARRATOR: The United States, 1947. 3 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:22,070 In Texas, Max and Rachel celebrate the return of their son, Paul, 4 00:00:22,080 --> 00:00:26,050 discharged from the US Army after serving two years in Japan. 5 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:30,070 He has great memories of his time there. 6 00:00:31,020 --> 00:00:33,020 (inaudible conversation) 7 00:00:33,030 --> 00:00:35,060 Children were conceived during the short time 8 00:00:35,060 --> 00:00:38,020 the American army helped rebuild the country, 9 00:00:38,030 --> 00:00:40,040 after having dropped the atom bomb on it. 10 00:00:50,990 --> 00:00:54,080 In Nagasaki, the ruins of the atomic disaster have been erased. 11 00:00:55,070 --> 00:00:57,060 The grass has grown back, 12 00:00:57,060 --> 00:00:59,060 but the world has changed forever. 13 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:06,070 Scientists have conceived an imaginary clock, 14 00:01:07,060 --> 00:01:09,030 the Doomsday Clock, 15 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:12,050 which measures the danger of imminent nuclear war. 16 00:01:12,060 --> 00:01:15,010 If it hits midnight, it's the end of the world. 17 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:20,060 For the next 50 years, 18 00:01:21,010 --> 00:01:24,040 Russia, then known as the Communist Soviet Union, 19 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:27,070 will confront the West, led by the United States. 20 00:01:29,070 --> 00:01:31,020 This is the Cold War. 21 00:01:31,990 --> 00:01:33,060 Between the East and West. 22 00:01:33,070 --> 00:01:34,070 The war of the worlds. 23 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,080 (theme song playing) 24 00:02:02,010 --> 00:02:04,000 -(all cheering) -NARRATOR: Like many Americans, 25 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,060 Max and Rachel donate food to help a starving Europe. 26 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:13,070 Little Daniel in Paris will be able to face the harsh winter of 1947, 27 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:15,990 one of the coldest of the century, 28 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,020 even though France has no coal. 29 00:02:19,010 --> 00:02:23,030 Still the morale of the French sets an example for the whole world. 30 00:02:24,060 --> 00:02:26,040 After six years of war, 31 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:29,020 they have chosen to live a carefree existence. 32 00:02:31,030 --> 00:02:33,080 Meanwhile between East and West, 33 00:02:33,990 --> 00:02:35,070 the weapons race has begun. 34 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:37,990 Are these confrontations 35 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,050 between the Western democracies and the Communists in the East, 36 00:02:41,060 --> 00:02:43,070 like in Indochina or in Korea, 37 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:46,080 merely the first steps in the Escalation of Fear? 38 00:02:53,050 --> 00:02:56,040 Texas, spring of 1947. 39 00:02:56,050 --> 00:03:01,020 Max and Rachel move to Fort Bliss, a small city near a military base. 40 00:03:02,020 --> 00:03:06,000 Max, an engineer, is hired to participate in the development of German rockets 41 00:03:06,010 --> 00:03:07,990 seized at the end of the war. 42 00:03:08,070 --> 00:03:12,040 Someday, these rockets could launch other atomic bombs. 43 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:18,040 Max works with a group of Germans, which is upsetting to him. 44 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:21,990 The recently revealed horrors of the Nazi camps 45 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,020 and the Holocaust have shocked him, 46 00:03:24,020 --> 00:03:26,010 along with the rest of America. 47 00:03:26,020 --> 00:03:27,070 (inaudible conversation) 48 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:30,020 Many German-born scientists and technicians 49 00:03:30,030 --> 00:03:34,000 were captured by the Soviets, the French and the Americans. 50 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,080 1500 are now settled in the US. 51 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:44,070 Among them is a young prodigy, 52 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,040 35-year-old Werner Von Braun. 53 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,070 He invented the V2 rocket for Hitler, 54 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:57,030 the rocket that terrified Londoners at the end of the war. 55 00:04:00,020 --> 00:04:03,020 Von Braun will perfect these German V2 units 56 00:04:03,030 --> 00:04:04,990 recovered by the Americans. 57 00:04:06,010 --> 00:04:09,060 Over 30 years, he redesigns them for the conquest of space. 58 00:04:09,070 --> 00:04:11,070 (inaudible conversation) 59 00:04:14,020 --> 00:04:18,000 In 1946, they are the first weapons of dissuasion, 60 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,020 launched over the New Mexican desert. 61 00:04:20,050 --> 00:04:23,020 The sound of war is coming closer. 62 00:04:28,030 --> 00:04:31,080 At the same time, diplomats try to save world peace 63 00:04:31,990 --> 00:04:34,080 by organizing a conference with the Soviet Union. 64 00:04:35,060 --> 00:04:37,060 On March 9, 1947, 65 00:04:37,070 --> 00:04:40,020 France's Secretary of State, Georges Bidault, 66 00:04:40,030 --> 00:04:41,990 a Christian Democrat, 67 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:43,070 leaves for Moscow with his wife. 68 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:49,050 At this conference, 69 00:04:49,060 --> 00:04:51,070 the foreign ministers of the four great powers 70 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:52,080 that brought down Hitler 71 00:04:52,990 --> 00:04:55,080 try to agree on the fate of occupied Germany. 72 00:04:56,030 --> 00:04:58,020 But the context has changed. 73 00:05:03,030 --> 00:05:06,020 France's minister Bidault wants Saarland, 74 00:05:06,030 --> 00:05:10,050 an industrial region in Germany that De Gaulle has already laid claim to. 75 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:16,990 From Britain, Bevin, a leftist, anti-Communist union supporter, 76 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,000 aligns with the US position... 77 00:05:19,010 --> 00:05:21,080 a position advocated by General Marshall, 78 00:05:21,990 --> 00:05:24,070 whose main concerns is America's security. 79 00:05:26,050 --> 00:05:30,080 The Soviet foreign minister, Mr. Molotov, who is getting close to the West, 80 00:05:30,990 --> 00:05:32,990 will be sidelined by Stalin. 81 00:05:35,020 --> 00:05:38,020 The former "allies" can't agree on anything. 82 00:05:39,030 --> 00:05:41,060 Germany will remain split in two. 83 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,070 A final reception that Stalin doesn't attend 84 00:05:46,010 --> 00:05:50,050 marks the end of the wartime alliance between East and West. 85 00:05:53,020 --> 00:05:55,080 After the smiles come the farewells. 86 00:06:00,060 --> 00:06:02,080 The American president, Democrat Harry Truman, 87 00:06:02,990 --> 00:06:05,020 presents his doctrine to Congress. 88 00:06:05,030 --> 00:06:07,000 His policy is one of containment. 89 00:06:09,020 --> 00:06:12,070 Any aggressive action by Stalin will be met with retaliation. 90 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:16,020 And most importantly, help Europe recover from poverty, 91 00:06:16,020 --> 00:06:18,020 a breeding ground for Communism. 92 00:06:20,010 --> 00:06:22,080 The American Secretary of State, George Marshall, 93 00:06:22,990 --> 00:06:25,070 offers Truman a plan for European reconstruction 94 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:27,020 that bears his name: 95 00:06:27,030 --> 00:06:28,060 the Marshall Plan. 96 00:06:29,010 --> 00:06:30,000 He says... 97 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,060 "The people of these countries need to eat and to survive the winter." 98 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:46,080 Back in France, little Daniel marvels at the convoy of American equipment. 99 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:50,080 There are electric transformers 100 00:06:50,990 --> 00:06:52,080 and all kinds of machine tools. 101 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:54,070 Provided by the USA for European economic recovery 102 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:57,070 The offer is generous for the European populations. 103 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:00,080 $12 billion, a fortune at the time. 104 00:07:02,030 --> 00:07:04,070 But this loan must be partially reimbursed 105 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:06,060 and be used, whenever possible, 106 00:07:06,070 --> 00:07:08,040 to buy American products. 107 00:07:12,050 --> 00:07:14,060 Stalin refuses. 108 00:07:14,060 --> 00:07:18,080 He forces the countries he occupies to turn down the Marshall Plan aid. 109 00:07:19,030 --> 00:07:23,040 In the other countries, Italy, Belgium, England, and especially France... 110 00:07:23,050 --> 00:07:24,060 DOWN WITH THE MARSHALL PLAN 111 00:07:24,060 --> 00:07:26,050 ...he stirs up the local Communist parties, 112 00:07:26,060 --> 00:07:29,000 backing violent protests and strikes... 113 00:07:29,010 --> 00:07:30,040 (all protesting) 114 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:33,030 ...to denounce "American imperialism." 115 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:43,080 But France's ambassador to the US accepts Washington's checks. 116 00:07:43,990 --> 00:07:46,040 Mister Ambassador, It gives me great pleasure 117 00:07:46,050 --> 00:07:49,020 to be able to hand you these checks 118 00:07:49,020 --> 00:07:52,080 which total $31,400,000. 119 00:07:53,050 --> 00:07:57,020 With these checks and those which we gave you last week, 120 00:07:57,030 --> 00:08:00,010 the total now is $33,000,000. 121 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:04,050 Even this...