The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
Created by Jay Winter, Blaine Baggett
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.
- First aired
- 10 Nov 1996
- Also known as
- 1914-1918
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Writers
- Blaine Baggett, Carl Byker, Jay Winter
- Editors
- Carl Byker, David Mrazek, Stosh Jarecki
- Executive producer
- Blaine Baggett
- Producers
- Carl Byker, Carol Sennett
- Elsewhere
- TMDB
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Cast
Salome Jens
Narrator (voice)
René Auberjonois
Jean Jaures / Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (voice)
Helena Bonham Carter
Vera Brittain (voice)
Leslie Caron
Czarina Aleksandra Romanov (voice)
Ralph Fiennes
Wilfred Owen (voice)
Malcolm McDowell
Czar Nicholas II / Charles Stockwell / Stephen Graham (voice)
Jürgen Prochnow
Kaiser Wilhelm II (voice)
Natasha Richardson
Vera Brittain
Michael York
Robert Graves / Harold Owen (voice)
Seasons · 8 episodes
1996
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