37 Days

★ 7.3 · 2014-03-06 · 1 Season · PG · Drama

Cast

Bernhard Schütz

Helmuth Moltke

Mark Lewis Jones

David Lloyd George

Nicholas Asbury

Winston Churchill

Urs Remond

Prince Lichnowsky

Oliver Ford Davies

Cunliffe

Ian Beattie

Tsar Nicholas II

Ian McDiarmid

Sir Edward Grey

Rainer Sellien

Kaiser Wilhelm

Nicholas Farrell

Eyre Crowe

Tim Pigott-Smith

Herbert Henry Asquith

Sinéad Cusack

Margot Asquith

Bill Paterson

Lord Morley

Episodes

One Month in Summer

The British Foreign Office, led by foreign secretary Sir Edward Grey, receives news of an assassination in the Balkans. In Berlin, the kaiser thinks he can exploit it for his own advantage.

58m

One Week in July

War in Europe is becoming a real possibility. Under pressure from the cabinet, the British foreign secretary unravels a tangled web of intrigue between Austria, Germany, Russia and France, while the German military command conspires to force the Kaiser's hand. Who will gain the upper hand?

58m

One Long Weekend

The last hours of peace. With the continental powers pushed to the brink, Sir Edward Grey seems unsure of whether to keep Britain out of the conflict. Desperate negotiations, resignations and a battle of wills in the Cabinet reach a crescendo with Germany's ultimatum to Belgium. Which way will Britain go?

60m