I definitely recommend this miniseries for history minded folk
I have the series on dusty DVDs in my bookcase. I guess its available on the youtubes. I wouldn't call English mutt in a derogatory way. Its just the language that has slept around the most because of the British Empire, the United States post WWII Pax, the fact that India needed to be part of the international economy and computers...yes the latter being the biggest reason currently.