I've used much of this series for years in my American History high school classroom. I only wish this series would be reissued in DVD format, as the original videos are old and tired after nearly 30 years and eventually will be unusable. As most of the personalities interviewed for this series are now long dead, it provides an excellent primary source account of the series of events that caused the chaos in the 20's and 30's that lead to the rise of dictatorships around the world. It deals especially well with the ineffectual response to the likes of Mussolini, Hitler and Franco on the part of the Western Democracies, and raises the still relevant discussion over isolationism vs. interventionism.