37 Days

2014
37 Days

Seasons & Episodes

  • 1

EP1 One Month in Summer Mar 06, 2014

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.

EP2 One Week in July Mar 07, 2014

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?

EP3 One Long Weekend Mar 08, 2014

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?
8.1| NR| en| Drama
Synopsis

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.

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  • Top Credited Cast
Bernhard Schütz as Helmuth Moltke
Mark Lewis Jones as David Lloyd George
Nicholas Asbury as Winston Churchill
Urs Remond as Prince Lichnowsky
Oliver Ford Davies as Cunliffe
Ian Beattie as Tsar Nicholas II
Rainer Sellien as Kaiser Wilhelm
Ian McDiarmid as Sir Edward Grey
Kenneth Cranham as John Burns