
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.
Last Episode Date: 2014-03-08
Drama
★★★★★★★★★★ (15 votes)
Official website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01pf7dx
Casts

Bernhard Schütz
as Helmuth Moltke

Mark Lewis Jones
as David Lloyd George

Nicholas Asbury
as Winston Churchill

Urs Remond
as Prince Lichnowsky

Oliver Ford Davies
as Cunliffe

Ian Beattie
as Tsar Nicholas II

Rainer Sellien
as Kaiser Wilhelm

Ian McDiarmid
as Sir Edward Grey

Kenneth Cranham
as John Burns

Tim Pigott-Smith
as Herbert Henry Asquith