Series cast
(298)Himself – Narrator
(26 episodes)
Himself – Roosevelt’s Roving Ambassador / Himself – Roosevelt’s Special Representative in Britain / Himself – US Ambassador to Moscow 1945 / Himself – US Ambassador to Russia 1943-46 / Himself – US Ambassador to Russia 1945
(5 episodes)
Himself / Himself – Commanding General, 25th Infantry Division at Guadalcanal / Himself – US VII Corps Commander
(3 episodes)
Herself – Married to German / Herself – Wife of German
(2 episodes)
Herself / Herself – Dutch Jew
(2 episodes)
Himself / Himself – Western Desert Force
(2 episodes)
Himself – Red Army
(1 episode)
Himself – Lieutenant, US Navy
(1 episode)
Himself – Cabinet Minister
(1 episode)
Himself – French High Command (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Stimson’s Biographer
(1 episode)
Himself – Historian
(1 episode)
Himself – 6th Guards Arnoured Brigade
(1 episode)
Himself – Conservative MP
(1 episode)
Himself – RAF Squadron Leader 1940
(1 episode)
Himself – Writer
(1 episode)
Himself – Roosevelt Administration
(1 episode)
Himself (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Ex Chief Petty Officer
(1 episode)
Himself – Commander, 6th Guard Army
(1 episode)
Himself – Hamburg Fire Officer
(1 episode)
Himself – Sherwood Foresters
(1 episode)
Himself – Major, ROAC
(1 episode)
Himself – Economist / Socialist (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Herself – Berlin Housewife
(1 episode)
Himself / Himself – Buckingham Palace on balcony 1945 / Himself – First Lord of the Admiralty / Himself – PM of the UK
(11 episodes)
Himself – C-in-C, Luftwaffe / Himself – Nuremberg Trial Defendant 1945 / Himself – President of the Reichstag
(6 episodes)
Himself – Cabinet Secretariat / Himself – Foreign Ministry 1945 / Himself – Matsuoka’s Private Secretary
(3 episodes)
Herself – Berlin Housewife / Herself – Housewife
(2 episodes)
Himself – Military Intelligence, Cairo / Montgomery’s Chief of Staff / Himself – Montgomery’s Chief of Staff
(2 episodes)
Himself – Foreign Affairs / Himself – Minister of Education
(2 episodes)
Himself – Chamberlain’s Private Secretary / Himself – Churchill’s Private Secretary
(2 episodes)
Himself
(1 episode)
Himself – Prisoner of the Gestapo
(1 episode)
Himself – SS Lance Corporal
(1 episode)
Himself – Lieutenant, US Navy
(1 episode)
Himself – Entertainer
(1 episode)
Himself – Truman’s Secretary of State
(1 episode)
Himself – US State Department 1945
(1 episode)
Himself
(1 episode)
Himself – British Embassy, Moscow 1941
(1 episode)
Himself – Radar Unit Plotter
(1 episode)
Himself – Adviser to Roosevelt
(1 episode)
Himself – Italian Army
(1 episode)
Himself – Capt of U-333
(1 episode)
Himself – Ukrainian Partisan
(1 episode)
Himself – Pilot
(1 episode)
Himself – Commander, US 5th Army
(1 episode)
Himself – Sergeant, RAF
(1 episode)
Herself – Plymouth Resident
(1 episode)
Himself – British Foreign Secretary / Himself – Foreign Affairs 1945 / Himself – Foreign Secretary / Himself – War Cabinet 1940-45 / Himself – War Minister 1940 / Foreign Secretary 1940
(5 episodes)
Himself – Allied Commander at Surrender Ceremony / Himself – Leader of America’s Occupation of Japan / Himself – Supreme Commander, Southwest Pacific Area
(3 episodes)
Himself / Himself – British Foreign Service / Himself – British Press Officer, Cairo
(3 episodes)
Himself / Himself – Japanese Imperial Army
(2 episodes)
Himself – Chief of the Navy / Himself – Last Leader of the Third Reich
(2 episodes)
Himself / Himself – War Cabinet 1942-45
(2 episodes)
Himself – Aerial Commander / Himself – Led Pearl Harbor Attack
(2 episodes)
Himself – ‘Daily Telegraph,’ Berlin
(1 episode)
Herself
(1 episode)
Hitler’s Dog (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Hitler’s Interpreter
(1 episode)
Himself – Japanese Navy
(1 episode)
Himself – Hitler’s Chief of Staff (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Corps Commander
(1 episode)
Himself – Commanding General US Eighth Air Force
(1 episode)
Himself – Sherwood Foresters
(1 episode)
Himself – Private, 14th Army
(1 episode)
Himself -Führer / Himself – Führer
(11 episodes)
Himself / Himself – Hitler’s Armaments Minister / Himself – Minister of Armaments / Himself – Minister of Armaments / War Production
(5 episodes)
Himself / Himself – Leader of the Free French
(3 episodes)
Himself – Ministry of Economics 1938-43 / Ministry of Armaments 1943-45 / Himself – Nazi Businessman
(2 episodes)
Himself – Commander Naval Intelligence / Himself – Naval Intelligence
(2 episodes)
Himself – Director, Imperial War Museum / Himself – Historian
(2 episodes)
Himself – Director General of Fighters / Himself – Luftwaffe Squadron Leader 1940 / Luftwaffe Wing Commander 1941
(2 episodes)
Himself – Planned Midway Invasion / Himself – Planned Pearl Harbor Attack
(2 episodes)
Himself – Alexander’s Chief of Staff / Himself – Commander, 7th Armoured Division
(2 episodes)
Himself
(1 episode)
Himself – 30 Corps Commander
(1 episode)
Himself – 6th Guards Armoured Bdge
(1 episode)
Himself – SS Major
(1 episode)
Himself – C-in-C, US Pacific Fleet (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself
(1 episode)
Himself – SS Ben Vrachie
(1 episode)
Herself – Leningrad Housewife
(1 episode)
Himself – Chindit Commander
(1 episode)
Himself – Member of Resistance
(1 episode)
Himself – Eisenhower’s Intelligence Chief
(2 episodes)
Herself – Hitler’s Secretary / Herself – Secretary to Hitler 1943-45
(2 episodes)
Himself
(2 episodes)
Himself – Cartoonist, ‘Stars and Stripes’
(2 episodes)
Himself – Law Student
(1 episode)
Himself
(1 episode)
Himself
(1 episode)
Himself – Polish Jew
(1 episode)
Herself – Student
(1 episode)
Himself – Entertainer
(1 episode)
Himself – State Department 1945
(1 episode)
Herself – German Refugee, 1945
(1 episode)
Himself – Author ‘The Warriors’
(1 episode)
Herself – Children’s Care Organiser
(1 episode)
Himself – BBC Reporter
(1 episode)
Himself – Stalin Critic
(1 episode)
Himself – Radio Commentator
(1 episode)
Himself – Commander, 6th Army Group (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Hiimself – Chief Officer, ‘SS San Emiliano’
(1 episode)
Himself – Factory Worker
(1 episode)
Himself – Marshal of the RAF 1972
(1 episode)
Himself – Gunner, 14th Army
(1 episode)
Himself – Ambassador to Russia 1940-1942 (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – War Correspondent
(3 episodes)
Himself – Foreign Minister
(3 episodes)
Himself / Himself – Supreme Allied Commander SEAC / Himself – Supreme Commander, SE Asia
(3 episodes)
Himself – German Panzer Command / Himself – German Panzer Commander
(2 episodes)
Himself – German High Command
(2 episodes)
Himself – Emperor’s Chief Adviser / Himself – Lord Privy Seal 1945
(2 episodes)
Himself – Social Democrat
(1 episode)
Herself
(1 episode)
Herself – Dresden Civilian
(1 episode)
Himself – Italian Jew
(1 episode)
Himself – Child Evacuee
(1 episode)
Himself – Steward, ‘MV Royal Daffodil’
(1 episode)
Himself – B-25 Raid on Japan
(1 episode)
Himself – Commander, Western Desert Force
(1 episode)
Himself – Commander, 7th Guards Army (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Escort Group Commander
(1 episode)
Himself – Night Fighter Pilot
(1 episode)
Himself
(1 episode)
Himself – Capt, 14th Army
(1 episode)
Himself
(1 episode)
Himself – General Secretary / Himself – Secretary General
(6 episodes)
Himself – Afika Korps, Rommel’s Chief of Staff / Himself – Chief of Staff, German Armies in the West / Himself – Kesselring’s Chief of Staff / Himself – Staff Officer Western Front
(4 episodes)
Himself – Emperor of Japan
(3 episodes)
Himself / Himself – Berliner
(2 episodes)
Himself – Printer’s Son
(1 episode)
Himself
(1 episode)
Himself – Hungarian Jew
(1 episode)
Himself
(1 episode)
Himself – British Army Officer
(1 episode)
Himself – RAF Sergeant Pilot 1940
(1 episode)
Himself – Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Newsman
(1 episode)
Himself – Interrogated Paulus when Surrendering (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – ‘HMS Vidette’
(1 episode)
Himself – Group Commander
(1 episode)
Himself – Japanese Imperial Army
(1 episode)
Himself
(1 episode)
Himself / Himself – US President
(4 episodes)
Himself – Buckingham Palace on balcony 1945 / Himself – His Highness
(2 episodes)
Himself / Himself – Divisional Commander
(2 episodes)
Herself – Farmer’s Daughter
(1 episode)
Himself – Streetcleaner
(1 episode)
Himself – Hitler’s Valet
(1 episode)
Himself – Czechoslovak Jew
(1 episode)
Himself – War Correspondent
(1 episode)
Himself – Nationalist Politician
(1 episode)
Himself – US Army 1945
(1 episode)
Himself – Disabled US Veteran
(1 episode)
Himself – Chancellor of the Exchequer (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Commanding ‘HMS Venomous’
(1 episode)
Himself – Pilot
(1 episode)
Himself – Roosevelt Administration
(1 episode)
Himself – C-in-C Middle East Command 1941-42 (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Hitler’s Chief of Staff (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Capt of U-99
(1 episode)
Himself – Communist Politician (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Herself – Morale Booster
(1 episode)
Himself
(1 episode)
Himself – German Army Officer
(1 episode)
Herself – Berliner / Herself – Berliner, 1945
(2 episodes)
Himself – Broadcaster / Himself – Broadcaster / Novelist
(2 episodes)
Himself – Marshal / Himself – Red Army General
(2 episodes)
Himself – Army Officer
(1 episode)
Herself
(1 episode)
Himself – SS General
(1 episode)
Herself – Buckingham Palace on balcony 1945 (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Royal Navy
(1 episode)
Himself – Capt HMS Ajax
(1 episode)
Himself – Capt of U-264
(1 episode)
Himself – RAF Bomber Command Pathfinder
(1 episode)
Himself – Acting Editor, Evening Standard 1942
(1 episode)
Himself – Commander, SS Academy
(1 episode)
Himself
(1 episode)
Herself / Herself – Buckingham Palace on balcony 1945
(2 episodes)
Himself – Assistant Secretary of War 1945 / Himself – Roosevelt’s Assistant Secretary of War
(2 episodes)
Herself – Eisenhower’s Driver / Herself – US Army 1945
(2 episodes)
Himself – 17th Div, Burma / Himself – 17th Indian Infantry Division, Malaya
(2 episodes)
Himself – Jewish Stockbroker
(1 episode)
Himself – The Prince of the Netherlands
(1 episode)
Herself – Red Army
(1 episode)
Herself – Polish Jew
(1 episode)
Himself – Nuremberg Prosecuter 1945
(1 episode)
Himself – PM of the UK
(1 episode)
Himself – Dowding’s Personal Assistant
(1 episode)
Himself – Bulgaria (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Commander 8th Army 1941 (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Coastal Command
(1 episode)
Himself
(1 episode)
Himself – Commander 15th Army Group (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Bevin Boy 1943-1947
(1 episode)
Herself – Buckingham Palace on balcony 1945 / Herself – Her Highness
(2 episodes)
Himself
(2 episodes)
Himself – Minister of Aircraft Production / Himself – Minister of War Production
(2 episodes)
Himself / Himself – Commander 8th Army
(2 episodes)
Himself
(1 episode)
Himself
(1 episode)
Himself – US Artilleryman
(1 episode)
Himself – SS-Final Solution Administrator (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Chancellor of West Germany 1969-74 (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Romania (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – General Staff
(1 episode)
Himself – Western Approaches Staff
(1 episode)
Himself – Navigator / Bombardier
(1 episode)
Himself – Chief of the Imperial General Staff (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Chairman, Coventry War Emergency Committee
(1 episode)
Herself
(1 episode)
Himself – Prime Minister / Himself – Prime Minister of Japan
(2 episodes)
Himself
(2 episodes)
Himself – Former Prime Minister / Himself – Prime Minister of Italy
(2 episodes)
Herself
(1 episode)
Herself – Red Army Interpreter
(1 episode)
Himself – C-in-C, Maginot Line (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Cabinet Secretary 1945
(1 episode)
Himself – UK Occupation Force 1945
(1 episode)
Himself – Prime Minister of France 1938-40 (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Prime Minister’s Private Secretary
(1 episode)
Himself – Japanese-American 1941
(1 episode)
Himself – ‘HMS Bluebell’
(1 episode)
Himself – Day Fighter Leader
(1 episode)
Himself – Sergeant, 14th Army
(1 episode)
Himself – Director, Daily Mirror
(1 episode)
Himself – Personal Secretary to the Führer (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Reichsführer-SS
(2 episodes)
Herself – Entertainer
(2 episodes)
Himself
(1 episode)
Himself – Funeral Procession in Japan 1943 (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Commander, French 9th Army (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Hiroshima & Nagasaki Pilot
(1 episode)
Himself – RAF Fighter Command 1936-40 (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Yugoslavia Acting Head of State (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Spy at Pearl Harbor
(1 episode)
Himself – Roosevelt Administration
(1 episode)
Himself – Commander 8th Army 1941-42 (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – ‘SS Gharinda’
(1 episode)
Himself – Commander, 14th Army (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Minister of Food 1940-1943 (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Bomb Plot Judge (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Entertainer
(2 episodes)
Himself / Himself – Commander, Afrika Korps
(2 episodes)
Himself – Propaganda Minister
(2 episodes)
Himself
(1 episode)
Himself – US Paratrooper
(1 episode)
Himself – German Colonel (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Hiroshima Pilot
(1 episode)
Himself – War Correspondent
(1 episode)
Himself – Squadron Commander
(1 episode)
Himself – Commander German Forces in Italy (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – British General, Chindit Campaigns (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – C-in-C Middle East Command 1940-41 / Himself – Middle East Command
(2 episodes)
Himself
(1 episode)
Himself – Japanese-American 1941
(1 episode)
Himself – Cologne Hospital Nurse
(1 episode)
Himself
(1 episode)
Herself – German Citizen
(1 episode)
Himself – Marshal of France (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Nuremberg Trial Defendant 1945 (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Foreign Minister of Japan (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Businessman (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Capt of U-47 (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Hamburg Journalist
(1 episode)
Himself – Betteshanger Miner
(1 episode)
Himself – NSB Leader (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Herself – Hitler’s Wife (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Prime Minister of France 1940 (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – United Nations signatore one (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Commonwealth General, Singapore (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Capt of U-100 (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Minister of Fuel & Power (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Reich Commissioner of Holland (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – C-in-C, French Army (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Roosevelt’s Adviser (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Anti-Submarine Warfare Commander (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Herself – Resident Alien
(1 episode)
Himself – Minister of Munitions (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Herself (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – US President (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Japanese General (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – British statesman (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Nuremberg Trial Defendant 1945 (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – Foreign Minister (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself – US Secretary of War 1945 (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Himself (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Radio Characters (archive footage)
(1 episode)
Episode guide (26 episodes)
(26 episodes)
Episode | Episode title | Transmitted |
---|---|---|
E1 | A New Germany | 31 Oct 73 |
E2 | Distant War | 07 Nov 73 |
E3 | France Falls | 14 Nov 73 |
E4 | Alone | 21 Nov 73 |
E5 | Barbarossa | 28 Nov 73 |
E6 | Banzai! | 05 Dec 73 |
E7 | On Our Way | 12 Dec 73 |
E8 | The Desert | 19 Dec 73 |
E9 | Stalingrad | 02 Jan 74 |
E10 | Wolf Pack | 09 Jan 74 |
E11 | Red Star | 16 Jan 74 |
E12 | Whirlwind | 23 Jan 74 |
E13 | Tough Old Gut | 30 Jan 74 |
E14 | It’s a Lovely Day Tomorrow | 06 Feb 74 |
E15 | Home Fires | 13 Feb 74 |
E16 | Inside the Reich | 20 Feb 74 |
E17 | Morning | 27 Feb 74 |
E18 | Occupation | 13 Mar 74 |
E19 | Pincers | 20 Mar 74 |
E20 | Genocide | 27 Mar 74 |
E21 | Nemesis | 03 Apr 74 |
E22 | Japan | 10 Apr 74 |
E23 | Pacific | 17 Apr 74 |
E24 | The Bomb | 24 Apr 74 |
E25 | Reckoning | 01 May 74 |
E26 | Remember | 08 May 74 |
How to watch
British television
Nemesis (1974, E21)
Yesterday HD
The final invasion of Germany by both the Western and Eastern allies, the bombing of Dresden and the events in the Führerbunker during the fall of Berlin. Laurence Olivier, Vladimir Antonov, Eberhard Bethge.
Japan (1974, E22)
Yesterday HD
Yesterday HD
Japan’s society and culture during wartime, and how life is transformed as the country gradually becomes aware of increasingly catastrophic setbacks including the Doolittle raid, defeat at Midway and the relentless bombing of Japanese cities. Laurence Olivier, Naoki Hoshino, Toshikazu Kase.
Pacific (1974, E23)
Yesterday HD
Yesterday HD
The successive and increasingly bloody land battles on tiny islands in the expansive Pacific, aimed towards the Japanese heartland. Following the bombing of Darwin the over-extended Japanese are progressively turned back. Laurence Olivier, Frank Manson, Roy Voris.
The Bomb (1974, E24)
Yesterday HD
Yesterday HD
The development of the atomic bomb, the ascendency of President Harry Truman, emerging splits in the Allies with Joseph Stalin, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, ultimately leading to Japan’s surrender. Laurence Olivier, McGeorge Bundy, James Byrnes.
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