First Aired: March 6th, 2014
Status: Ended
Genre: Drama
Network: BBC Two
Summary: 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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# of Episodes: 3
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Cast
Bernhard Schütz
as Helmuth Moltke
as Helmuth Moltke
Mark Lewis Jones
as David Lloyd George
as David Lloyd George
Nicholas Asbury
as Winston Churchill
as Winston Churchill
Urs Remond
as Prince Lichnowsky
as Prince Lichnowsky
Oliver Ford Davies
as Cunliffe
as Cunliffe
Ian Beattie
as Tsar Nicholas II
as Tsar Nicholas II
Sinéad Cusack
as Margot Asquith
as Margot Asquith
Nicholas Farrell
as Eyre Crowe
as Eyre Crowe
Ludger Pistor
as Bethmann-Hollweg
as Bethmann-Hollweg
Ian McDiarmid
as Sir Edward Grey
as Sir Edward Grey
Rainer Sellien
as Kaiser Wilhelm
as Kaiser Wilhelm
Tim Pigott-Smith
as Herbert Henry Asquith
as Herbert Henry Asquith
Bill Paterson
as Lord Morley
as Lord Morley
Kenneth Cranham
as John Burns
as John Burns