Year 2012 Video Release 2012-06-05 Studio Warner Bros. Genre Documentary MPAA Rating Not Rated Color Color Runtime 283 Animated Live-Action Full Synopsis The West once ruled more than half the world. The religion it exported, Christianity, is still followed by a third of mankind. Above all, the way people live or aspire to live is unmistakably an invention of the West. All over the world, more and more humans eat a Western diet, wear Western clothes and live in Western housing. But are we living through the beginning of the end of the West's ascendancy? In this remarkable series, Niall Ferguson explains how by juxtaposing the West and 'the Rest', we can uncover the keys the six killer applications of Western ascendancy the real explanation of how, for roughly five centuries, a clear minority of mankind managed to secure the lion's share of the Earth?s resources.