Face to Face

E1 Episode 1: Jobs vs. Gates

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• 53m
• Apr 20, 2020

Since the late 1970s, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs quite simply wrote the future of computers with the battle between the Mac and the PC as the main stage. Their rivalry was so spectacular and far-reaching that it could embody the whole digital revolution all by itself.

E2 Episode 2: Dassler vs. Dassler

• 51m

Adidas versus Puma, or Adolf Dassler against Rudolf Dassler. A war between two brothers which would rapidly go beyond a mere family feud to become a battle of the brands. The hatred between the two brothers fuelled their economic rivalry, and vice versa.

E3 Episode 3: Korolev vs. Von Braun

• 52m

This is the story of the 20th century’s greatest adventure, the conquest of space, recounted through the intertwining destinies of two men who were its principal architects: Sergueï Pavlovitch Korolev, the Russian, and Wernher von Braun, born in Germany, later an American.

E4 Episode 4: Airbus vs. Boeing

• 52m
• May 25, 2020

The story of the rivalry between Boeing and Airbus is no doubt one of the greatest human and technological adventures of the 20th century. A modern-day Western, with the protagonists trying out every underhand trick and bluff possible to achieve their aims.

E5 Episode 5: Kalashnikov vs. M16

• 53m
• May 18, 2020

A duel to the death… A combat between two inventions. Two deadly weapons. This time, our « duellists » are not men, but objects which largely surpass the fame and notoriety of their inventors. They come face to face not in offices and markets, but in battlefields.

E6 Episode 6: Pepsi vs. Coca

• 53m
• May 11, 2020

A duel between giants which has lasted for more than a century, at a cost of billions of dollars. Pepsi vs Coke: a hundred-years-war with unparalleled socio-economic stakes, countless victims, spies, underhand maneuvers, truces, and rene

E7 Episode 7: Mandela vs. De Klerk

• 53m

Would Nelson Mandela have made history without Frederik de Klerk? And vice versa? The question is more than pertinent in view of the extent to which the destinies of South Africa’s first black president and the last leader of the apartheid regime are linked.

E8 Episode 8: Martin Luther King vs. Malcolm X

• 52m

E9 Episode 9: Lvmh vs. Kering

• 52m

E10 Episode 10: Castro vs. Guevara

• 52m

Che Guevara, the radical thinker, and Fidel Castro, the political animal… could they ever share the image of the liberating savior of Latin America? Did Che Guevara, the diehard combatant, set off towards certain death in Bolivia?