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The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (1996)
Documentary series telling the history of the Great War, in which nine million people perished.
1 season8 episodes
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century is a 1996 documentary series that aired on PBS. It chronicles World War I over eight episodes. It was narrated by Dame Judi Dench in the UK and Salome Jens in the United States. The series won two Primetime Emmy Awards: one for Jeremy Irons for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance, the other for Outstanding Informational Series. In 1997, it was given a Peabody Award.
- First aired
- November 10, 1996
- Last episode
- December 29, 1996
- Network
- PBS
- Country of origin
- United States
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Cast
- Judi Dench as Narrator
- Salome Jens as Narrator (U.S.A Verison)
- Jay Winter as Self
- Jürgen Prochnow as Otto Dix
- Jürgen Prochnow as Captain Peter Strasser
- Jürgen Prochnow as Fritz Nagel
- Michael York as French Socialist
- Michael York as Harold Owen
- Michael York as Henri Designot
- Ian Richardson as Colonel Alfred Knox
- Ian Richardson as David Lloyd George
- Ian Richardson as General Sir Ian Hamilton
- Tim Pigott-Smith as Philip Gibbs
- Tim Pigott-Smith as Harold Nicholson
- Tim Pigott-Smith as Ward Muir
- Jeremy Irons as Siegfried Sassoon
- Ralph Fiennes as Wilfred Owen
- Leslie Caron as Czarina Aleksandra Romanov
- Leslie Caron as Madame Camille Dumont