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"The World at War" (1973) More at IMDbPro »

Season: 1
Year: 1973 | 1974

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: A New Germany: 1933-1939

31 October 1973

Laurence Olivier

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Himself - Narrator (voice)

Season 1, Episode 2: Distant War: September 1939-May 1940

7 November 1973

	Laurence Olivier	...	Himself - Narrator (voice)
	Robert Boothby	...	Himself (as Lord Boothby)
	R.A. Butler	...	Himself (as Lord Butler)
	Lord Chandos	...	Himself
	J.R. Colville	...	Himself
	Lucy Faithfull	...	Herself
	Martin Lindsay	...	Himself (as Captain Mark Lindsay)
	Sir Charles Woodhouse	...	Himself
	Neville Chamberlain	...	Himself (archive sound) (uncredited)
	Winston Churchill	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Édouard Daladier	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Gracie Fields	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	George Formby	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Adolf Hitler	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 3: France Falls: May-June 1940

14 November 1973

	Laurence Olivier	...	Himself - Narrator (voice)
	André Beaufre	...	Himself (as General André Beaufre)
	Lawrence Durrell	...	Himself
	Edward Spears	...	Himself (as Sir Edward Spears)
	Hasso von Manteuffel	...	Himself (as General von Manteuffel)
	Walter Warlimont	...	Himself (as General Warlimont)
	Gordon Waterfield	...	Himself
	Siegfried Westphal	...	Himself (as General Siegfried Westphal)

Season 1, Episode 4: Alone: May 1940-May 1941

21 November 1973

	Laurence Olivier	...	Himself - Narrator (voice)
	Sir Max Aitken	...	Himself
	J.R. Colville	...	Himself
	Anthony Eden	...	Himself (as Lord Avon)
	Adolf Galland	...	Himself (also archive footage)
	Charles Gardner	...	Himself - BBC Reporter (archive sound)
	Bertie Good	...	Himself
	Ray Holmes	...	Himself
	John McBeath	...	Himself (as Rear-Admiral John McBeath)
	J.B. Priestley	...	Himself
	Robert Wright	...	Himself
	Winston Churchill	...	Himself (archive sound) (uncredited)
	Adolf Hitler	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 5: Barbarossa: June-December 1941

28 November 1973

	Laurence Olivier	...	Himself - Narrator (voice)
	Averell Harriman	...	Himself
	Sir John Russell	...	Himself
	Paul Schmidt	...	Himself
	Albert Speer	...	Himself
	Grigori Tokaty	...	Himself
	Walter Warlimont	...	Himself (as General Warlimont)
	Adolf Hitler	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 6: Banzai! Japan: 1931-1942

5 December 1973

Laurence Olivier

...

Himself - Narrator (voice)

Season 1, Episode 7: On Our Way: U.S.A. - 1939-1942

12 December 1973

	Laurence Olivier	...	Himself - Narrator (voice)
	George Ball	...	Himself
	Vannevar Bush	...	Himself
	Masataka Chihaya	...	Himself
	J. Lawton Collins	...	Himself (as General Lawton Collins)
	J.R. Colville	...	Himself
	Norman Corwin	...	Himself
	James Doolittle	...	Himself (as General James Doolittle)
	Mitsuo Fuchida	...	Himself
	Minoru Genda	...	Himself
	Averell Harriman	...	Himself
	John J. McCloy	...	Himself
	Isamu Noguchi	...	Himself
	Paul Samuelson	...	Himself
	Richard Tregaskis	...	Himself
	Edison Uno	...	Himself
	Winston Churchill	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Bing Crosby	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Bob Hope	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Tyrone Power	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Jonathan M. Wainwright	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 8: The Desert: North Africa - 1940-1943

19 December 1973

	Laurence Olivier	...	Himself - Narrator (voice)
	David Belchem	...	Himself (as Gen. David Belchem)
	Paola Colacicchi	...	Himself - Italian Army
	Sir Francis de Guingand	...	Himself (as Gen. Sir Francis De Guingard)
	Lawrence Durrell	...	Himself
	Field Marshal Lord Harding	...	Himself - Commander, 7th Armoured Division
	Sir Richard O'Connor	...	Himself (as Gen. Sir Richard O'Connor)
	Siegfried Westphal	...	Himself
	Bernard L. Montgomery	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Benito Mussolini	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 9: Stalingrad: June 1942-February 1943

2 January 1974

	Laurence Olivier	...	Himself - Narrator (voice)
	Adolf Hitler	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Friedrich Paulus	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 10: Wolf Pack: U-Boats in the Atlantic - 1939-1944

9 January 1974

	Laurence Olivier	...	Himself - Narrator (voice)
	Edward Butler	...	Himself
	Peter Cremer	...	Himself
	Karl Dönitz	...	Himself (as Grossadmiral Karl Donitz)
	William Edward Rawlings Eyton-Jones	...	Himself - S.S. Ben Vrachie (as Captain Eyton-Jones)
	Thomas Finch	...	Himself
	Sir Peter Gretton	...	Himself (as Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Gretton)
	Raymond Hart	...	Himself (as Captain Raymond Hart)
	Otto Kretschmer	...	Himself (as Flotillenadmiral Otto Kretschmer)
	Hartwig Looks	...	Himself (as Kapt. z. See Hartwig Looks)
	Wilfred Oulton	...	Himself (as Air Vice Marshall Wilfred Oulton)
	Gilbert Roberts	...	Himself (as Captain Gilbert Roberts)
	Robert Sherwood	...	Himself (as Captain Robert Sherwood)
	Rodney Stone	...	Himself
	Winston Churchill	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 11: Red Star: The Soviet Union - 1941-1943

16 January 1974

	Laurence Olivier	...	Himself - Narrator (voice)
	Ivan Chistyakov	...	Himself - Commander, 6th Guard Army
	Vsevelod Klokov	...	Himself - Ukrainian Partisan
	Ivan Ludnikov	...	Himself - Corps Commander
	Hans Rudel	...	Himself
	Olga Rybakova	...	Herself - Leningrad Housewife
	Nikolai Volkov	...	Himself - Factory Worker

Season 1, Episode 12: Whirlwind: Bombing Germany - September 1939-April 1944

23 January 1974

	Laurence Olivier	...	Himself - Narrator (voice)
	Hans Brunswig	...	Himself
	John Corcoran	...	Himself - Pilot
	Ira C. Eaker	...	Himself (as Lieutenant General Ira C. Eaker)
	Adolf Galland	...	Himself (as General Adlof Galland)
	Sir Arthur Harris	...	Himself
	Wilhelm Herget	...	Himself
	Leon Johnson	...	Himself - Group Commander (as General Leon Johnson)
	Curtis LeMay	...	Himself - Divisional Commander (as General Curtis Le May)
	Hamish Mahaddie	...	Himself (as Group Captain Hamish McAddie)
	William Reid	...	Himself
	John Rogan	...	Himself
	Werner Schroer	...	Himself
	Albert Speer	...	Himself
	James Stewart	...	Himself - Squadron Commander
	Lore Thran	...	Herself (as Frau Lore Thran)
	Ben Witter	...	Journalit

Season 1, Episode 13: Tough Old Gut: Italy - November 1942-June 1944

30 January 1974

	Laurence Olivier	...	Himself - Narrator (voice)
	Bill Becket	...	Himself - Sherwood Foresters
	Mark W. Clark	...	Commander, U.S. 5th Army (as General Mark Clark)
	Walter Davis	...	Himself - Sherwood Foresters
	Field Marshal Lord Harding	...	Himself - Alexander's Chief of Staff
	Bill Mauldin	...	Himself - Cartoonist, 'Stars and Stripes'
	Drew Middleton	...	Himself
	Sir Kenneth Strong	...	Himself (as Gen. Sir Kenneth Strong)
	Wynford Vaughan-Thomas	...	Himself
	Siegfried Westphal	...	Himself (as General Siegfried Westphal)
	Adolf Hitler	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 14: It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow: Burma - 1942-1944

6 February 1974

	Laurence Olivier	...	Himself - Narrator (voice)
	Walter Boller	...	Himself - Major, R.O.A.C.
	Sydney Bowers	...	Himself - Sergeant, R.A.F.
	Leonard Brown	...	Himself - Private, 14th Army
	Michael Calvert	...	Himself (as Brigadier Michael Calvert)
	Gilbert Collins	...	Himself - Gunner, 14th Army
	Neville G. Gordon	...	Himself - Captain, 14th Army
	Vera Lynn	...	Herself (also archive footage)
	Louis Mountbatten	...	Himself (as Lord Louis Mountbatten)
	Teruo Okada	...	Himself (as Lt. Teruo Okada)
	Sir J.G. Smyth	...	Himself - 17th Div., Burma (as General Sir J.G. Smyth V.C.)
	Freddie Tomkins	...	Himself - Sergeant, 14th Army

Season 1, Episode 15: Home Fires: Britain - 1940-1944

13 February 1974

	Laurence Olivier	...	Himself - Narrator (voice)
	Sir William Beveridge	...	Himself (archive footage)
	Mrs. Gwen Bunt	...	Herself (as Mrs Gwen Bunt)
	R.A. Butler	...	Himself - Minister of Education (as Lord Butler)
	Lord Chandos	...	Himself
	Sir Stafford Cripps	...	Himself - Ambassador to Russia 1940-1942 (archive footage)
	Tom Driberg	...	Himself (as Tom Driberg M.P.)
	Anthony Eden	...	Himself (as Lord Avon)
	Sir Trevor Evans	...	Himself
	Michael Foot	...	Himself - Acting Editor, Evening Standard 1942 (also archive footage)
	David Hewetson	...	Himself - Bevin Boy 1943-1947 (also archive footage)
	Alderman G. Hodgkinson	...	Himself - Chairman, Coventry War Emergency Committee
	Cecil King	...	Himself - Director, Daily Mirror
	Frederick Marquis	...	Himself - Minister of Food 1940-1943 (as Lord Woolton)
	Harry Pollitt	...	Himself - Communist Party Secretary 1929-1956 (archive footage)
	J.B. Priestley	...	Himself
	Bill Roberts	...	Himself - Betteshanger Miner
	Emanuel Shinwell	...	Himself (as Lord Shinwell)
	Mrs. Herma Wolfgang	...	Herself (as Mrs Herma Wolfgang)
	Lord Beaverbrook	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Ernest Bevin	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Winston Churchill	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Gracie Fields	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	George Formby	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Tommy Handley	...	Radio Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Myra Hess	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 16: Inside the Reich: Germany - 1940-1944

20 February 1974

	Laurence Olivier	...	Himself - Narrator (voice)
	Hertha Beese	...	Herself
	Christabel Bielenberg	...	Herself
	Emmi Bonhoeffer	...	Herself
	Otto John	...	Himself (as Dr. Otto John)
	Traudl Junge	...	Herself
	Hans Kehrl	...	Himself
	Friedrich Luft	...	Himself
	Richard Schultze-Kossens	...	Himself
	Albert Speer	...	Himself
	Marlene Tucking	...	Herself
	Fritz Todt	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 17: Morning: June-August 1944

27 February 1974

	Laurence Olivier	...	Himself - Narrator (voice)
	David Belchem	...	Himself (as Maj. Gen. David Belchem)
	J. Lawton Collins	...	Himself (as Maj. Gen. J. Lawton Collins)
	Louis Mountbatten	...	Himself (as Lord Louis Mountbatten)
	Goronwy Rees	...	Himself
	J.M. Stagg	...	Himself (as Dr. J.M. Stagg)
	Kay Summersby	...	Herself - Eisenhower's Driver
	Bob Hope	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Bernard L. Montgomery	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Erwin Rommel	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 18: Occupation: Holland - 1940-1944

13 March 1974

	Laurence Olivier	...	Himself - Narrator (voice)
	Rita Boas-Koopman	...	Herself (as Rita Boas Koopman)
	J.A.H.J.S. Bruins Slot	...	Himself (as J.A.H.J.S. Bruin Slot)
	J.F. Bubberman-Boer	...	Herself
	Eddy Christiani	...	Himself
	Louis De Jong	...	Himself
	Petra Eldering	...	Herself
	Jan Kilkens	...	Himself
	Jetty Paerl	...	Herself (as Yetje Pearl)
	Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands	...	Himself - The Prince of the Netherlands (as H.R.H. Prince Bernhard the Prince of the Netherlands)
	J.B. Roodbol	...	Himself
	Florrie Rost van Tonningen	...	Herself (as Florrie Rost Van Toningen)
	Arthur Seyss-Inquart	...	Himself (archive footage)
	R.M. van der Veen	...	Himself
	T. van Ralte	...	Himself (as T. Van Ralte)
	Gerben Wagenar	...	Himself
	R.B. Woudenber	...	Himself

Season 1, Episode 19: Pincers: August 1944-March 1945

20 March 1974

	Laurence Olivier	...	Himself - Narrator (voice)
	J. Lawton Collins	...	Himself (as General J. Lawton Collins)
	Sir Francis de Guingand	...	Himself (as General Sir Francis de Guingand)
	Averell Harriman	...	Himself
	Brian Horrocks	...	Himself (as General Sir Brian Horrocks)
	Sir Kenneth Strong	...	Himself (as General Sir Kenneth Strong)
	Wynford Vaughan-Thomas	...	Himself
	Hasso von Manteuffel	...	Himself (as General Hasso von Manteuffel)
	Siegfried Westphal	...	Himself (as General Siegfried Westphal)

Season 1, Episode 20: Genocide: 1941-1945

27 March 1974

	Laurence Olivier	...	Himself - Narrator (voice)
	Rita Boas-Koopman	...	Herself - Dutch Jew (as Rita Boas Koopman)
	Richard Böch	...	Himself S.S. Lance Corporal
	Anthony Eden	...	Himself (as Lord Avon)
	Wilhelm Hoettl	...	Himself - S.S. Major (as Dr. Wilhelm Höttl)
	Avraham Kochavi	...	Himself - Polish Jew
	Primo Levi	...	Himself - Italian Jew
	Dov Paisikovic	...	Himself - Hungarian Jew
	Rudolf Vrba	...	Himself - Czechoslovak Jew
	Karl Wolff	...	Himself
	Rivka Yosilevska	...	Herself - Polish Jew
	Hermann Göring	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Heinrich Himmler	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Adolf Hitler	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 21: Nemesis: Germany - February-May 1945

3 April 1974

	Laurence Olivier	...	Himself - Narrator (voice)
	Maj. Gen. Vladimir Antonov	...	Himself - Red Army
	Eberhard Bethge	...	Himself - Prisoner of the Gestapo
	Lt. Col. C.J.R. Duffin M.C.	...	Himself - 6th Guards Armoured Bdge
	Willy Feldheim	...	Himself (15 year old soldier at time of war)
	Ursula Grey	...	Herself - Dresden Civilian
	Traudl Junge	...	Herself
	Heinz Linge	...	Himself - Hitler's Valet
	Friedrich Luft	...	Himself - Berliner
	Major Anna Nikulina	...	Herself - Red Army
	Felix Putterman	...	Himself - U.S. Artilleryman
	Lt. Yelena Reveshkaya	...	Herself - Red Army Interpreter
	Christa Ronke	...	Herself - Berliner
	John Seney	...	Himself - U.S. Paratrooper
	Albert Speer	...	Himself
	Carola Stern	...	Herself - German Citizen

Season 1, Episode 22: Japan: 1941-1945

10 April 1974

	Laurence Olivier	...	Himself - Narrator (voice)
	Naoki Hoshino	...	Himself - Cabinet Minister
	Toshikazu Kase	...	Himself
	Hideki Tojo	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 23: Pacific: February 1942-July 1945

17 April 1974

	Laurence Olivier	...	Himself - Narrator (voice)
	Frank Manson	...	Himself - Lieutenant, U.S. Navy
	Butch Voris	...	Himself - Lieutenant, U.S. Navy
	Douglas MacArthur	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Chester W. Nimitz	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) (unconfirmed)

Season 1, Episode 24: The Bomb: February-September 1945

24 April 1974
Following the events from the death of US President Roosevelt through to the dropping of the two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that prompted Japan's surrender.

	Laurence Olivier	...	Himself - Narrator (voice)
	McGeorge Bundy	...	Himself
	James Byrnes	...	Himself
	Anthony Eden	...	Himself (as Lord Avon)
	Averell Harriman	...	Himself
	Alger Hiss	...	Himself
	Toshikazu Kase	...	Himself
	Koichi Kido	...	Himself (as Marquis Kido)
	Yoshio Kodama	...	Himself
	John J. McCloy	...	Himself (as John McCloy)
	J. Robert Oppenheimer	...	Himself (as Robert Oppenheimer)
	Hisatsune Sakomizu	...	Himself
	Charles W. Sweeney	...	Himself (as Charles Sweeney)
	Paul Tibbets	...	Himself (as Colonel Paul Tibbets)
	Douglas MacArthur	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Harry S. Truman	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 25: Reckoning: 1945... and After

1 May 1974

	Laurence Olivier	...	Himself - Narrator (voice)
	Stephen Ambrose	...	Himself
	Charles Bohlen	...	Himself - U.S. State Department, 1945
	Anthony Eden	...	Himself (as Lord Avon)
	Noble Frankland	...	Himself
	Ursula Gray	...	Herself - German Refugee, 1945
	Averell Harriman	...	Himself
	Louis Mountbatten	...	Himself (as Admiral Lord Mountbatten)
	William Robertson	...	Himself - U.S. Army, 1945
	Christa Ronke	...	Herself - Berliner, 1945
	Albert Speer	...	Himself
	Douglas Spencer	...	Himself - U.K. Occupation Force, 1945
	Kay Summersby	...	Herself - U.S. Army, 1945
	Hermann Göring	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Rudolf Hess	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Joseph Stalin	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
	Harry S. Truman	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 26: Remember

8 May 1974

	Laurence Olivier	...	Himself - Narrator (voice)
	John Barne	...	Himself
	Stanley Drinkwater	...	Himself
	Lawrence Durrell	...	Himself
	Noble Frankland
	J. Glenn Gray	...	Himself - Authour 'The Warriors'
	Bill Mauldin	...	Himself
	Joe Minogue	...	Himself
	Herman Pheffer	...	Himself - Disabled U.S. Veteran
	Jimmy Thomas	...	Himself - Royal Navy
	Wynford Vaughan-Thomas	...	Himself