Apcalypse.War.Of.The.Worlds.2019.S01E01 Movie Subtitles

1 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:11,040 -(projector whirring) -(jazz music playing) 2 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:21,240 NARRATOR: Since that first postwar Christmas of 1945, 3 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:24,120 They'd had plenty of fun. 4 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:27,000 They'd fallen in love 5 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:29,480 and gotten married. 6 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:33,920 They had cherished their children 7 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:36,760 who in turn had fallen in love. 8 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,200 -(dramatic music plays) -And yet... 9 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:45,440 A Third World War could break out at any time. 10 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:47,120 The Apocalypse! 11 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:49,160 (rumbling) 12 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,000 ("Cry Baby" playing) 13 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,360 From 1945 until 1991, 14 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:22,360 the Eastern bloc, dominated by the Soviet Union, 15 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:26,800 and the West, headed by the United States, are at daggers drawn. 16 00:01:32,960 --> 00:01:36,400 In August 1945, to put an end to World War II, 17 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:39,240 the United States, for the first time in history, 18 00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:40,640 drops two atom bombs 19 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:47,040 that kill or irradiate 100,000 human beings in one second. 20 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:49,080 ("Cry Baby" continues playing) 21 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:02,960 The atom bomb is now the real threat. 22 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:10,360 In 1947, American scientists invent a way to evaluate the risk of nuclear war. 23 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:13,240 They call it the Doomsday Clock. 24 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,560 If the clock's hands ever reach midnight, 25 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:18,920 it will mean disaster. 26 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:24,280 This virtual clock often hits five minutes to 12:00. 27 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:30,400 (all laughing) 28 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,280 How did people manage to live with the permanent tension 29 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:35,720 that is the foundation of our world today? 30 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:38,440 (guns cocking) 31 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:43,960 How did this balance of terror 32 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,720 spark off dozens of deadly regional conflicts... 33 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:49,440 -(helicopter whirring) -...from Indochina to Korea 34 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:02,920 and from Vietnam to Afghanistan? 35 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:06,120 (gunfire) 36 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:09,680 Wars that we will relive here, 37 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:12,480 through archive footage, some colorized, 38 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:14,560 and home movies and photos. 39 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,400 It all begins with the big rift 40 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:23,800 between East and West. 41 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,400 (all cheering) 42 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:39,720 On May 8th, 1945, the French celebrate the end of the war in Europe. 43 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:43,040 The American soldiers have only one thing in mind. 44 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:44,160 Going home. 45 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:47,760 (all cheering) 46 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:50,720 But they know they may still be shipped off to Japan, 47 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:52,360 who has yet to surrender. 48 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:54,840 (bell tolling) 49 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:58,480 Moscow, June 24, 1945. 50 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,280 Time on the Kremlin clock is set by Stalin, 51 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:03,360 the master of Russia, 52 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:07,160 which is called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics... 53 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:08,880 the USSR. 54 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:09,880 (all cheering) 55 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:14,000 Stalin hails himself as the sole winner of World War II, 56 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:15,680 even though he owes his victory 57 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:18,920 to the sacrifice of 25 million Soviet lives 58 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,920 and $200 billion dollars of Western aid. 59 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:25,800 (band playing drums) 60 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:29,560 The First World War gave birth to Communism. 61 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:33,600 The Second places it in a position of power. 62 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:36,040 (army marching) 63 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:41,120 Stalin has just seized 64 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:45,000 over two million square kilometers of European territory 65 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:47,360 and its 100 million inhabitants, 66 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:50,840 imposing Communist rule everywhere. 67 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:56,080 Stalin and his military chiefs of staff have drawn up plans 68 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:57,880 for invading the rest of Europe. 69 00:04:58,280 --> 00:05:00,520 This scheme would be backed up with a power takeover 70 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:02,400 by the local Communist parties. 71 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,360 Stalin is also counting on the great Western powers 72 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:09,480 being paralyzed by uprisings in their colonies. 73 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:17,160 In Berlin, landlocked by the Soviet-occupied zone, 74 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:21,680 Stalin meets with the Allied leaders to take stock after Germany's surrender. 75 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:24,800 The meeting is held in Potsdam, 76 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:28,800 a suburb of Berlin that has suffered less damage than most of the city. 77 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:32,360 The American and British delegates 78 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:35,320 are able to admire the results of their air raids, 79 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:37,120 of the Russian artillery, 80 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:39,280 and Hitler's suicidal tenacity. 81 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:41,920 The aftermath of war. 82 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:48,160 And only weeks after the end of Nazi Germany, 83 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:51,320 mounting apprehension sets in. 84 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:56,000 Will this meeting of the great alliance be able to maintain peace? 85 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:04,160 Stalin arrives on July 17, 1945, 86 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:06,080 for two weeks of summit meetings. 87 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,120 In Potsdam, maximum security is provided 88 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:17,040 by an army of 17,000 officers and men of the NKVD, 89 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:19,000 the Soviet political police. 90 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:23,600 One of its chiefs, close to Stalin, is Lavrentiy Beria. 91 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:28,520 Stalin refers to him as "the head of our Gestapo" 92 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:31,080 or "our very own Himmler," 93 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:33,760 a sinister allusion to Hitler's police. 94 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,600 The Secret Service that protects the American president 95 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:44,720 is also fully mobilized. 96 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:52,120 This is the first trip overseas for Harry Truman, 97 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:54,160 President Roosevelt's successor. 98 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:57,400 It is also President Truman's first meeting 99 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:00,960 with one of World War II's great heroes, Winston Churchill, 100 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:05,760 who has just sent him a long telegram warning him against Stalin. 101 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:08,560 Churchill writes, 102 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:14,080 "An iron curtain has been drawn down by the Russians all along their front. 103 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:16,920 We do not know what is going on behind." 104 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:21,360 (indistinct conversation) 105 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:24,000 Truman sizes up his opponent. 106 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:27,120 Stalin has public opinion behind him. 107 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:29,480 He is the Father of Nations. 108 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:30,920 More importantly, 109 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:35,280 he has 20,000 tanks and five million soldiers at his command. 110 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:39,640 This is the main question for President Truman: 111 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,960 How can Stalin be stopped? And where? 112 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:47,760 Will the oceans protect America? 113 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:51,360 Does America have the means to protect Europe? 114 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,680 Truman has only one card to play: 115 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:55,920 The nuclear option. 116 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:00,240 He delayed the conference 117 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:04,280 until he knew the results of the world's first atom bomb testing. 118 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:08,280 Day after day, 119 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:12,520 Stalin weighs in heavily on each decision being made during the conference. 120 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:20,680 Nobody dares argue with him on the fate of Germany, 121 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:22,520 which will be split in two. 122 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:26,360 Or the unfortunate Baltic states, recently annexed by Stalin. 123 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,520 Asia is another key issue at the Potsdam conference. 124 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,680 America is dominating the Japanese in the Pacific. 125 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,520 In China, Stalin supports Mao Zedong's...