Starring
Anthony Eden
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| S1 | 8.7 | 8.3 | 8.7 | 8.6 | 8.9 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 8.5 | 9.0 | 8.3 | 8.8 | 8.4 | 8.5 | 8.5 | 8.1 | 8.9 | 9.0 | 8.6 | 8.5 | 9.2 | 9.0 | 8.5 | 8.7 | 8.9 | 8.6 | 8.6 |
About
A documentary series that gives a historical account of the events of World War II, from its roots in the 1920s to the aftermath and the lives it profoundly influenced.
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Season 11973
8.614K2622h 41m
| Ep | Title | Rating | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | A New Germany: 1933-1939 | 8.7 | 826 | 52 min |
| ▶ | 2 | Distant War: September 1939-May 1940 | 8.3 | 662 | 52 min |
| ▶ | 3 | France Falls: May-June 1940 | 8.7 | 621 | 53 min |
| ▶ | 4 | Alone: May 1940-May 1941 | 8.6 | 580 | 52 min |
| ▶ | 5 | Barbarossa: June-December 1941 | 8.9 | 594 | 53 min |
| ▶ | 6 | Banzai! Japan 1931-1942 | 8.5 | 543 | 52 min |
| ▶ | 7 | On Our Way: U.S.A. 1939-1942 | 8.4 | 521 | 53 min |
| ▶ | 8 | The Desert: North Africa - 1940-1943 | 8.5 | 502 | 53 min |
| ▶ | 9 | Stalingrad: June 1942-February 1943 | 9.0 | 552 | 52 min |
| ▶ | 10 | Wolf Pack: U-Boats in the Atlantic - 1939-1944 | 8.3 | 483 | 52 min |
| ▶ | 11 | Red Star: The Soviet Union - 1941-1943 | 8.8 | 506 | 53 min |
| ▶ | 12 | Whirlwind: Bombing Germany - September 1939-April 1944 | 8.4 | 471 | 53 min |
| ▶ | 13 | Tough Old Gut: Italy - November 1942-June 1944 | 8.5 | 450 | 51 min |
| ▶ | 14 | It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow: Burma - 1942-1944 | 8.5 | 441 | 53 min |
| ▶ | 15 | Home Fires: Britain - 1940-1944 | 8.1 | 998 | 53 min |
| ▶ | 16 | Inside the Reich: Germany - 1940-1944 | 8.9 | 454 | 53 min |
| ▶ | 17 | Morning: June-August 1944 | 9.0 | 445 | 52 min |
| ▶ | 18 | Occupation: Holland - 1940-1944 | 8.6 | 432 | 53 min |
| ▶ | 19 | Pincers: August 1944-March 1945 | 8.5 | 424 | 53 min |
| ▶ | 20 | Genocide: 1941-1945 | 9.2 | 542 | 53 min |
| ▶ | 21 | Nemesis: Germany - February-May 1945 | 9.0 | 434 | 53 min |
| ▶ | 22 | Japan: 1941-1945 | 8.5 | 417 | 51 min |
| ▶ | 23 | Pacific: February 1942-July 1945 | 8.7 | 413 | 51 min |
| ▶ | 24 | The Bomb: February-September 1945 | 8.9 | 421 | 53 min |
| ▶ | 25 | Reckoning: 1945... and after | 8.6 | 400 | 52 min |
| ▶ | 26 | Remember | 8.6 | 412 | 50 min |
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Laurence Olivier Self - Narrator
Averell Harriman Self - Roosevelt's Roving Ambassador, Self - Roosevelt's Special Representative in Britain, Self - U.S. Ambassador to Moscow 1945
Anthony Eden Foreign Secretary 1940, Self - British Foreign Secretary, Self - Foreign Affairs 1945
Albert Speer Self, Self - Minister of Armaments, Self - Hitler's Armaments Minister
Siegfried Westphal Self - Afika Korps - Rommel's Chief of Staff, Self - Chief of Staff, German Armies in the West, Self - Kesselring's Chief of Staff
Lawrence Durrell Self, Self - British Foreign Service, Self - British Press Officer - Cairo
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas Self - War Correspondent
Louis Mountbatten Self - Chief of Combined Operations (1942-1943), Self - Supreme Allied Commander S.E.A.C., Self - Supreme Commander, S.E.Asia
J. Lawton Collins Self - Commanding General, 25th Infantry Division at Guadalcanal, Self - U.S. VII Corps, Self - U.S. VII Corps Commander
Toshikazu Kase Self - Cabinet Secretariat, Self - Foreign Ministry 1945, Self - Matsuoka's Private Secretary
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