Stand by · pulling the latest frames
Stand by · pulling the latest frames


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.
7.4
Score
19
BBC Two

Ian Beattie
Tsar Nicholas II

Rainer Sellien
Kaiser Wilhelm

Ian McDiarmid
Sir Edward Grey

Kenneth Cranham
John Burns

Tim Pigott-Smith
Herbert Henry Asquith

Sinéad Cusack
Margot Asquith

Bill Paterson
Lord Morley

Nicholas Farrell
Eyre Crowe

Ludger Pistor
Bethmann-Hollweg
Christopher Kelly
Christopher Kelly
Gavrilo Princip
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2022