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1996 • 1 Season
Created by Jay Winter, Blaine Baggett

Documentary series telling the history of the Great War, in which nine million people perished.
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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1996 • 1 Season
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.
S01 E08 • Sunday, Dec 29, 1996 • Dec 29

Salome Jens
as Narrator (voice)
8 episodes

René Auberjonois
as Jean Jaures
(+1 more)
1 episodes

Helena Bonham Carter
as Vera Brittain (voice)
1 episodes

Leslie Caron
as Czarina Aleksandra Romanov (voice)
1 episodes

Ralph Fiennes
as Wilfred Owen (voice)
1 episodes

Malcolm McDowell
as Czar Nicholas II
(+2 more)
1 episodes

Jürgen Prochnow
as Kaiser Wilhelm II (voice)
1 episodes