Britain vs The United States: The Other Great Game (Full Documentary)

Between 1814 and 1960, the British Empire and United States engaged in a struggle for Continental, and then world supremacy. This documentary is a collection of earlier videos, slightly reworked, that aims to tell the story of how the rising power of the US was dealt with by Britain. It looks at the early years following the War of 1812, when both powers remained hostile, but the British Empire was globally ascendant. Then moves onto the rest of the 19th century, as British statesmen struggled to tackle the growing industrial and political power of the US in North and South America.
The documentary then looks at relations in the First World War, and how London's financial dominance gave way to Washington's. Finally, it deals with how America used this new power to, at times ruthlessly, drive what remained of the British Empire into the ground. But it is also a documentary of two powers turning from enemies to allies, even if doing so whilst maintaining suspicions of each other.

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0:00 1814-1846
14:33 1846-1914
30:58 1914-1922
46:15 1922-1941
1:04:45 1941-1945
1:32:05 1945-1960

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