It keeps up a brisk pace and doesn't keep repeating itself so like many documentaries.
It's remarkably thorough, covering politics, diplomacy, economics, culture, and war. And it actually mentions stuff that's really important but usually left out of pop history. Like what countries are borrowing money and from who. If I could nitpick, it's too focused on Europe & America, but given the level of detail it goes into, it would have taken like 30 hours to cover the whole world.
It's a tragic period where people ruined everything in every way by being r-slurs. There's a story passed down in my family about a kid who was growing up at this time who legit thought that we had finished the "war to end all wars" and was really disappointed to find out how naive she was. (I get the impression that she actually personally had a lot of fun serving in WW2 tho, traveling the world.)
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