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

00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:11,-(projector whirring)
-(jazz music playing)

00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:21,NARRATOR: Since that first
postwar Christmas of 1945,

00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:24,They'd had plenty of fun.

00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:27,They'd fallen in love

00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:29,and gotten married.

00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:33,They had cherished their children

00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:36,who in turn had fallen in love.

00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,-(dramatic music plays)
-And yet...

00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:45,A Third World War
could break out at any time.

00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:47,The Apocalypse!

00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:49,(rumbling)

00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,("Cry Baby" playing)

00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,From 1945 until 1991,

00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:22,the Eastern bloc,
dominated by the Soviet Union,

00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:26,and the West, headed by the United States,
are at daggers drawn.

00:01:32,960 --> 00:01:36,In August 1945,
to put an end to World War II,

00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:39,the United States,
for the first time in history,

00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:40,drops two atom bombs

00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:47,that kill or irradiate
100,000 human beings in one second.

00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:49,("Cry Baby" continues playing)

00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:02,The atom bomb is now the real threat.

00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:10,In 1947, American scientists invent a way
to evaluate the risk of nuclear war.

00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:13,They call it the Doomsday Clock.

00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,If the clock's hands ever reach midnight,

00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:18,it will mean disaster.

00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:24,This virtual clock
often hits five minutes to 12:00.

00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:30,(all laughing)

00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,How did people manage to live
with the permanent tension

00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:35,that is the foundation of our world today?

00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:38,(guns cocking)

00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:43,How did this balance of terror

00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,spark off dozens
of deadly regional conflicts...

00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:49,-(helicopter whirring)
-...from Indochina to Korea

00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:02,and from Vietnam to Afghanistan?

00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:06,(gunfire)

00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:09,Wars that we will relive here,

00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:12,through archive footage, some colorized,

00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:14,and home movies and photos.

00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,It all begins with the big rift

00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:23,between East and West.

00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,(all cheering)

00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:39,On May 8th, 1945, the French celebrate
the end of the war in Europe.

00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:43,The American soldiers
have only one thing in mind.

00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:44,Going home.

00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:47,(all cheering)

00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:50,But they know
they may still be shipped off to Japan,

00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:52,who has yet to surrender.

00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:54,(bell tolling)

00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:58,Moscow, June 24, 1945.

00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,Time on the Kremlin clock
is set by Stalin,

00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:03,the master of Russia,

00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:07,which is called
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...

00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:08,the USSR.

00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:09,(all cheering)

00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:14,Stalin hails himself
as the sole winner of World War II,

00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:15,even though he owes his victory

00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:18,to the sacrifice
of 25 million Soviet lives

00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,and $200 billion dollars of Western aid.

00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:25,(band playing drums)

00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:29,The First World War
gave birth to Communism.

00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:33,The Second places it
in a position of power.

00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:36,(army marching)

00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:41,Stalin has just seized

00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:45,over two million square kilometers
of European territory

00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:47,and its 100 million inhabitants,

00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:50,imposing Communist rule everywhere.

00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:56,Stalin and his military chiefs of staff
have drawn up plans

00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:57,for invading the rest of Europe.

00:04:58,280 --> 00:05:00,This scheme would be backed up
with a power takeover

00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:02,by the local Communist parties.

00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,Stalin is also counting
on the great Western powers

00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:09,being paralyzed
by uprisings in their colonies.

00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:17,In Berlin,
landlocked by the Soviet-occupied zone,

00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:21,Stalin meets with the Allied leaders
to take stock after Germany's surrender.

00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:24,The meeting is held in Potsdam,

00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:28,a suburb of Berlin that has suffered
less damage than most of the city.

00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:32,The American and British delegates

00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:35,are able to admire the results
of their air raids,

00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:37,of the Russian artillery,

00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:39,and Hitler's suicidal tenacity.

00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:41,The aftermath of war.

00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:48,And only weeks
after the end of Nazi Germany,

00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:51,mounting apprehension sets in.

00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:56,Will this meeting of the great alliance
be able to maintain peace?

00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:04,Stalin arrives on July 17, 1945,

00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:06,for two weeks of summit meetings.

00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,In Potsdam, maximum security is provided

00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:17,by an army of 17,000 officers
and men of the NKVD,

00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:19,the Soviet political police.

00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:23,One of its chiefs, close to Stalin,
is Lavrentiy Beria.

00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:28,Stalin refers to him
as "the head of our Gestapo"

00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:31,or "our very own Himmler,"

00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:33,a sinister allusion to Hitler's police.

00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,The Secret Service
that protects the American president

00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:44,is also fully mobilized.

00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:52,This is the first trip overseas
for Harry Truman,

00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:54,President Roosevelt's successor.

00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:57,It is also President Truman's
first meeting

00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:00,with one of World War II's great heroes,
Winston Churchill,

00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:05,who has just sent him a long telegram
warning him against Stalin.

00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:08,Churchill writes,

00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:14,"An iron curtain has been drawn down
by the Russians all along their front.

00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:16,We do not know what is going on behind."

00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:21,(indistinct conversation)

00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:24,Truman sizes up his opponent.

00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:27,Stalin has public opinion behind him.

00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:29,He is the Father of Nations.

00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:30,More importantly,

00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:35,he has 20,000 tanks
and five million soldiers at his command.

00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:39,This is the main question
for President Truman:

00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,How can Stalin be stopped? And where?

00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:47,Will the oceans protect America?

00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:51,Does America have the means
to protect Europe?

00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,Truman has only one card to play:

00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:55,The nuclear option.

00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:00,He delayed the conference

00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:04,until he knew the results
of the world's first atom bomb testing.

00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:08,Day after day,

00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:12,Stalin weighs in heavily on each decision
being made during the conference.

00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:20,Nobody dares argue with him
on the fate of Germany,

00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:22,which will be split in two.

00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:26,Or the unfortunate Baltic states,
recently annexed by Stalin.

00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,Asia is another key issue
at the Potsdam conference.

00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,America is dominating
the Japanese in the Pacific.

00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,In China, Stalin supports
Mao Zedong's...