TV series · 1996
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
“Documentary series telling the history of the Great War, in which nine million people perished.”
First aired 10 November 1996 Documentary TMDB ↗
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.
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Leslie Caron
as Czarina Aleksandra Romanov (voice)
Salome Jens
as Narrator (voice)
René Auberjonois
as Jean Jaures / Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (voice)
Jürgen Prochnow
as Kaiser Wilhelm II (voice)
Michael York
as Robert Graves / Harold Owen (voice)
Malcolm McDowell
as Czar Nicholas II / Charles Stockwell / Stephen Graham (voice)
Natasha Richardson
as Vera Brittain
Ralph Fiennes
as Wilfred Owen (voice)
Helena Bonham Carter
as Vera Brittain (voice)