This well-made German ZDF documentary details the life of Alexander the Great, the Greek king who conquered Persia for Greece while he was in his twenties.

This second episode explains his ambitious conquest of Persia, where he won key battles due to courage and good strategy, leading to many regions in the area such as Babylon and Egypt then welcoming him as a liberator without a fight.

He was the last great leader of Greece, and his death resulted in the fragmentation of the newly subjugated lands of Persia, followed by Rome eventually taking power in the region a few centuries later.