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Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy

  • TV Mini Series
  • 2002
  • 6h
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Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy (2002)
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The people, ideas, and events that created our current world economy.The people, ideas, and events that created our current world economy.The people, ideas, and events that created our current world economy.

  • Stars
    • David Ogden Stiers
    • Ronald Reagan
    • Adolf Hitler
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    • Stars
      • David Ogden Stiers
      • Ronald Reagan
      • Adolf Hitler
    • 19User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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      • 1 win & 4 nominations total

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    David Ogden Stiers
    David Ogden Stiers
    • Self - Narrator
    • 2002
    Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Reagan
    • Self
    • 2002
    Adolf Hitler
    Adolf Hitler
    • Self
    • 2002
    John F. Kennedy
    John F. Kennedy
    • Self
    • 2002
    Winston Churchill
    Winston Churchill
    • Self
    • 2002
    Richard Nixon
    Richard Nixon
    • Self
    • 2002
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    • Self
    • 2002
    Joseph Stalin
    Joseph Stalin
    • Self
    • 2002
    Jimmy Carter
    Jimmy Carter
    • Self
    • 2002
    Margaret Thatcher
    Margaret Thatcher
    • Self
    • 2002
    Dick Cheney
    Dick Cheney
    • Self
    • 2002
    Mohandas K. Gandhi
    Mohandas K. Gandhi
    • Self
    • 2002
    Vladimir Lenin
    Vladimir Lenin
    • Self
    • 2002
    Newt Gingrich
    Newt Gingrich
    • Self
    • 2002
    George Shultz
    George Shultz
    • Self - Professor, University of Chicago 1957-68
    • 2002
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    • Self
    • 2002
    Lawrence Summers
    Lawrence Summers
    • Self - President, Harvard University
    • 2002
    Gordon Brown
    Gordon Brown
    • Self - Labor Finance Minister
    • 2002
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      • 2002 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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      • PBS (United States)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • La batalla por la economía mundial
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      • 6h(360 min)
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