Writing Credits
| Christopher Fry | ... | (narrative) |
Cast (in credits order)
| Laurence Olivier | ... | Self - Narrator (voice) | |
| Queen Elizabeth II | ... | Self | |
| Prince Philip | ... | Self - Duke of Edinburgh | |
| Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother | ... | Self - The Queen Mother | |
| King Charles III | ... | Self (as Prince Charles) | |
 |
Duke of Gloucester | ... | Self |
| Louis Mountbatten | ... | Self (as Admiral the Earl Mountbatten of Burma) | |
|
|
Edward Windsor | ... | Self (as Duke of Kent) |
|
|
Bernard Fitzalan-Howard 16th Duke of Norfolk | ... | Self (as The Earl Marshal of England) |
|
|
Basil Brooke 1st Viscount Brookeborough | ... | Self (as The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland) |
|
|
Godfrey Huggins | ... | Self (as The Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia) |
|
|
Dudley Shelton Senanayake | ... | Self (as The Prime Minister of Ceylon) |
|
|
Muhammad Ali Bogra | ... | Self (as The Prime Minister of Pakistan) |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | ... | Self (as The Prime Minister of India) | |
| D.F. Malan | ... | Self (as The Prime Minister of South Africa) | |
|
|
Sidney George Holland | ... | Self (as The Prime Minister of New Zealand) |
| Robert Gordon Menzies | ... | Self (as The Prime Minister of Australia) | |
|
|
Louis Stephen Saint-Laurent | ... | Self (as The Prime Minister of Canada) |
| Winston Churchill | ... | Self (as The Right Honourable Sir Winston Churchill) | |
|
|
N.G. Rees | ... | Self (as Midshipman Rees RN) |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Bernard Braden | ... | Self - Commentator (voice) | |
|
|
Richard Dimbleby | ... | Self - Commentator (voice) |
|
|
Michael Henderson | ... | Self - Commentator (voice) |
|
|
Mary Hill | ... | Self - Commentator (voice) |
|
|
Brian Johnston | ... | Self - Commentator (voice) |
| Max Robertson | ... | Self - Commentator (voice) | |
|
|
Berkeley Smith | ... | Self - Commentator (voice) |
|
|
Chester Wilmot | ... | Self - Commentator (voice) |
| Jeremy Clyde | ... | Self - Page Boy (uncredited) | |
Produced by
| Castleton Knight | ... | producer |
Music by
| Guy Warrack | ||
Sound Department
| Douglas Hurring | ... | dubbing crew (uncredited) |
Camera and Electrical Department
| Dennis Bartlett | ... | technicolor technician (uncredited) |
Music Department
| London Symphony Orchestra | ... | musician (as The London Symphony Orchestra) |
| The Royal Choral Society | ... | musician |
| Malcolm Sargent | ... | music advisor (as Sir Malcolm Sargent) |
Additional Crew
| Harold Bromige | ... | production assistant |
| Roy C. Drew | ... | production assistant (as Roy Drew) |
| Humphrey Fisher | ... | production assistant |
Thanks
| David Eccles | ... | the producers offer their sincere thanks to The Minister of Works |
| Bernard Fitzalan-Howard 16th Duke of Norfolk | ... | the producers offer their sincere thanks to The Earl Marshal |
| William McKie | ... | the producers offer their sincere thanks to (as Dr. William McKie) |
