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Coal, Blood and Iron (1991)

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  • Featuring

    Nigel Anthony

  • Country

    United Kingdom

  • Year

    1991

  • Type

    Television

Synopsis

Looks at the industrialisation that has swept across Europe over the past 200 years, considering the importance and role of coal, and examining the mixture of prosperity and terrible poverty and social problems that industrialisation brought. it also considers some of the negative effects in the production of weapons, and of encouraging war on an unprecedented scale, as seen in the First and Second World wars.

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