The Second World War, told entirely through original and colorized archival footage, across thirteen episodes narrated by Robert Powell. The series opens in the economic wreckage of the 1920s and 30s, when weak governments in Germany, Italy, Japan, and Spain gave way to military dictators, and follows Hitler's rise to Chancellor through the planning of the invasion of Poland that starts the war. From there it moves front by front: the Western campaigns, the Eastern Front against the Soviet Union, the North African desert war, and the island-hopping fight across the Pacific. Colorizing the footage changes how it reads: uniforms, ruined cities, and refugee columns stop looking like distant history and start looking like recent events. Produced by World Media Rights, the series was built for a general audience rather than specialists, keeping the chronology straightforward while still giving the Eastern Front and the Pacific War real screen time instead of treating them as footnotes to the story in Western Europe.