The documentary's near non existent interviews with "talking head" pays homage to The World at War, the famed British television series that emphasized narration and archival footage instead of the usual interviews with officials retelling the story. This allows for the audience to follow the story without it getting ahead of them.
Oliver Stone personally contributed $1 million of the series' $4 million budget due to the series running two years over schedule.
A 750 page companion book was written by Stone and Kuznick that delves further into the main players, events, locations and the how and why of the events preceding and following the Cold War.
The original script was meant to be a short film on the history of U.S. foreign policy. However, as Stone and Kuznick researched and expanded on the multiple themes and topics, the series developed.
Unlike most series, the prologue is actually the last section of the series. The two part prologue is titled Chapter A World War I, the Russian Revolution and Woodrow Wilson and B 1920-1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.
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