Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (Documentary, English)
Status: Ended
Premiered: 2003-01-04
Ended: 2003-02-08
Network: Channel 4
Country: GB
Airs on: Saturday
Runtime: 50 minutes
How did Britain come to rule the world? asks Niall Ferguson in Empire. What would today's world be like now if it hadn't? Could such an organisation – run by, according to Winston Churchill, 'the greedy trader, the inopportune missionary, the ambitious soldier and the lying spectator' – ever have been a force for good?