'This is history at its core,' said History EVP/GM Nancy Dubuc upon announcing this ambitious 10-part series. It's also history remarkably revived: some 3,000 hours of archival color footage, some of it never seen on television before and sourced from archives and private collections found around the world, have been painstakingly restored with advanced HD technology.

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