Butterfly Effect

Name: Butterfly Effect
Released: 2016-10-02T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Michel Roy, Karine Pinoteau

Program TV · Historyczny · Dokumentalny

Big movements of change that have often started with tiny events or personal decisions, and ended up affecting history.

2016 · 24m

ODCINEK 1

Alexander Becomes Great

An exploration into what would be different in today's world if Alexander had not died at the age of 32, and had listened to advisers and returned to Macedonia instead of going on his worldwide conquest.
ODCINEK 2

Race to the Moon

Speculating how things might be different if there had not been a Cold War and a space race.
ODCINEK 3

A Bus for Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King Jr.'s role in motivating change during the Civil Rights movement, and how the legacy of the Civil War still affects American democracy.
ODCINEK 4

King Philippe of France and Richard the Lionheart of England

Questioning what might have happened if Richard the Lionheart had not been wounded, or if Philippe Auguste of France had fled the battlefield.
ODCINEK 5

Confucius and Chinese Thought

Possible outcomes if Kong Qui, known in the West as Confucius, had been as opportunistic and corrupt as other officials.
ODCINEK 6

Genghis Khan: The Empire of the Steppes

The impact the events of his childhood had on shaping the man who would become Genghis Khan, and how the Mongol invasions affected the history of Asia and the psyche of Europe.