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37 Days

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.

2014 |1 Season  | 60m |  Drama

Cast

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Bernhard Schütz

Helmuth Moltke

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Mark Lewis Jones

David Lloyd George

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Nicholas Asbury

Winston Churchill

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Urs Remond

Prince Lichnowsky

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Oliver Ford Davies

Cunliffe

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Ian Beattie

Tsar Nicholas II

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Rainer Sellien

Kaiser Wilhelm

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Ian McDiarmid

Sir Edward Grey

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Kenneth Cranham

John Burns

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Tim Pigott-Smith

Herbert Henry Asquith

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Sinéad Cusack

Margot Asquith

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Bill Paterson

Lord Morley

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Nicholas Farrell

Eyre Crowe

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Ludger Pistor

Bethmann-Hollweg

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Creator

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Status

Ended

Languages

English

Network

BBC Two