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37 Days - Miniseries

This three-part political thriller follows the catastrophic chain of events leading up to World War I from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914 to Britain's declaration of war on Germany 37 days later. This tense and gripping miniseries set among the corridors of power in Whitehall and Berlin tracks the unfolding crisis through the eyes of leading politicians and civil servants struggling to prevent the world's first global war. 37 Days unlocks the mystery of the war s origins, overturning assumptions about its inevitability, demonstrating that World War One was neither a chance happening nor was it a foregone conclusion.

Top Cast

  • Bernhard Schütz

    Bernhard Schütz

    Helmuth Moltke

  • Mark Lewis Jones

    Mark Lewis Jones

    David Lloyd George

  • Nicholas Asbury

    Nicholas Asbury

    Winston Churchill

  • Urs Remond

    Urs Remond

    Prince Lichnowsky

  • Oliver Ford Davies

    Oliver Ford Davies

    Cunliffe

  • Ian Beattie

    Ian Beattie

    Tsar Nicholas II

  • Rainer Sellien

    Rainer Sellien

    Kaiser Wilhelm

  • Ian McDiarmid

    Ian McDiarmid

    Sir Edward Grey

  • Kenneth Cranham

    Kenneth Cranham

    John Burns

Overview

This three-part political thriller follows the catastrophic chain of events leading up to World War I from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914 to Britain's declaration of war on Germany 37 days later. This tense and gripping miniseries set among the corridors of power in Whitehall and Berlin tracks the unfolding crisis through the eyes of leading politicians and civil servants struggling to prevent the world's first global war. 37 Days unlocks the mystery of the war s origins, overturning assumptions about its inevitability, demonstrating that World War One was neither a chance happening nor was it a foregone conclusion.

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