- Director: David Cunliffe, Bill Hays, Rudolph Cartier
- Release Year: 1974
- Production Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
Fall of Eagles
- Era: 20th Century
- Regions: Europe, Eastern Europe, Hungary, Russia, Northern Europe, United Kingdom, Western Europe, Austria, Germany
- Subject: Government & Politics
- Film Type: Mini-Series
Description
The fates of three of the greatest royal houses in Europe are intertwined in life, death, and their eventual fall from power in the last half of the 19th century, leading to cataclysmic events across the world as the balance of power shifts from monarchies to nationalistic governments.
Themes
House of Habsburg, House of Romanov (1613 – 1917), Russian Empire (1721 – 1917), Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (1869 – 1916), World War I (1914 – 1918), Bolshevik Revolution (1917 – 1921), Franz Ferdinand (1863 – 1914), Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870 – 1924), Monarchies, Political intrigue, Religion, Messiahs, Class conflicts, Serfdom, Social conditions, Poverty, Aristocracy, Regicide