"The World at War" A New Germany: 1933-1939 (1973)

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8.5/10   

Director:

Hugh Raggett

Writer:

Neal Ascherson (writer)

TV Series:

"The World at War" (1973)

Original Air Date:

31 October 1973 (Season 1, Episode 1)

Genre:

Documentary | War

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Germany | Resistance | Japan | Sicily | Luftwaffe

Cast

Laurence Olivier

...

Himself - Narrator (voice)

Series Cast

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Albrecht Brauning	...	Himself
John Kenneth Galbraith	...	Himself (as J.K. Galbraith)
Bernard Kops	...	Himself
Tsuyako Kii	...	Herself
Tei-ichi Makishima	...	Himself
Ekkehard Maurer	...	Himself
Ian Mutsu	...	Himself
Piet Nak	...	Himself
Tadashi Nakajima	...	Himself
Hiroko Nakamoto	...	Herself
Otto Ernst Remer	...	Himself
Saburo Sakai	...	Himself
Yuzuru Sanematsu	...	Himself
Albrecht Schimpf	...	Himself
Heinrich Schmidt-Schmiedebach	...	Himself
Ichiji Sugita	...	Himself (also archive footage)
Tomohiko Ushiba	...	Himself
Momoko Yonada	...	Herself
Ewald von Kleist	...	Himself
Harold Alexander	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ion Antonescu	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Clement Attlee	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Claude Auchinleck	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
General Bergeret	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Georges Bidault	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Thomas Blamey	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Martin Bormann	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Arno Breker	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alan Brooke	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
James F. Byrnes	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
James Cagney	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
L. Moore Cosgrave	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
H.D.G. Crerar	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alan Cunningham	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Duke of Windsor	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dwight D. Eisenhower	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Eric Elster	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Roland Freisler	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Wilhelm Frick	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Maurice Gamelin	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Henri Giraud	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Josef Goebbels	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Andrei Gromyko	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lord Halifax	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Harding	...	Himself (as Lord Harding)
Reinhard Heydrich	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hirohito	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Harry Hopkins	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Yung-Chang Hsu	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charles Huntziger	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Leonard M. Isitt	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Wilhelm Keitel	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nikita Khrushchev	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
King Boris III	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
King George VI	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
William Lyon Mackenzie King	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Pierre Koenig	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Saburo Kurusu	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hans Langsdorff	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Admiral Le Luc	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
William D. Leahy	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Trafford Leigh-Mallory	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charles A. Lindbergh	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gustaf Mannerheim	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
George C. Marshall	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Willem Mengelberg	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Vyacheslav Molotov	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Anton Mussert	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Léon Noël	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Katauo Okazaki	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alexandre Parodi	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
A.E. Percival	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Philippe Pétain	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Erich Raeder	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bertram Ramsay	...	(archive footage) (uncredited)
Paul Reynaud	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
M.M. Rost van Tonningen	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ulrich Schwerin von Schwanenfeld	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Haile Selassie	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mamoru Shigemitsu	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mikhail Shumilov	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sir John Simon	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Frank Sinatra	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
William Slim	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Edward R. Stettinius Jr.	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Joseph W. Stilwell	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Henry L. Stimson	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard K. Sutherland	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Kantaro Suzuki	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Arthur Tedder	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Yoshijiro Umezu	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Archibald Wavell	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Wendell Willkie	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Orde Wingate	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Union Leader Woudenber	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Isoroku Yamamoto	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tomoyuki Yamashita	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Andrei Yeremenko	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mao Zedong	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Georgi Zhukov	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charles de Gaulle	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Yves le Trocquer	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Paul von Hindenburg	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joachim von Ribbentrop	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gerd von Rundstedt	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Erwin von Witzleben	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Eva Braun	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Irene Dunne	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hedy Lamarr	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Princess Margaret	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Queen Elizabeth II	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Quotes:

[first lines]
Narrator: Down this road on a summer day in 1944, the soldiers came. Nobody lives here now. They stayed only a few hours. When they had gone, the community, which had lived for a thousand years, was dead. This is Oradour-sur-Glane, in France. The day the soldiers came...