On screen
Cast
178 credited performers
Peter Guinness
Narrator (voice)
Stephen Beckett
Narrator (voice)
Boris Rogachevski
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Chris Rogers
Joseph Sewald
Blair Willoughby
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Penny Barral
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Fiona Brice
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Ben Caplan
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Dan Carter
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Frazer Douglas
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Carl Fenton
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Pierre Giraud
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David Horton
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Alain Lefebvre
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Jacques Sandras-Leibovici
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Raphaël Remiatte
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Emily Sharp
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Olivier Deslandes
Voice-over Artist
Benjamin Till
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Paul Darrow
Voice-over Artist
Caroline Bernstein
Voice-over Artist
Natalie Walter
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Admir Aladjuz
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John Anderson
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Jack Daniels
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Joseph Goebbels
Self (archive footage)
Magda Goebbels
Self (archive footage)
Heinrich Himmler
Self (archive footage)
Molly Housego
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Simone Huber
(voice)
Richard Knight
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Goran Kostić
Gavrilo Princip (voice)
Kevin Krago
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Benito Mussolini
Self (archive footage)
Salih Palo
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Hannah Northedge
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Lucy Perkins
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Jill Richardson
Magda Goebbels
Fredrick Ruth
Gottlieb Daimler (voice)
Jasmina Samssuli
(voice)
Felix Wightman
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Dzevad Vrabuc
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Pip Utton
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Mirza Tanović
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Tom Wesel
(voice)
Leroy Emerson
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Robert Hatchett
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Philip Dunlap
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Michael Cunningham
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Verna Aldridge
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Kenneth Hughes
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Collins Nugkana
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Maureen Nikani
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Anthony Bowden
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Bafo Bam
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Leon Majkenda
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Nelson Mandela
Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Matthew Bozin
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Sean Curtis-Ward
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Crystal Akie Hanano
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Ben Healey
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Rodney Kageyama
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Brent Kanaster
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John Kanaster
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Michael Sun Lee
Yoshito Matsushige
T. Michael Patton
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Michael J. Reynolds
General J. T. Farrel
Jon Slisovich
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Robert C. Smith
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Harry Tomkins
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Keita Yada
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Yudo Yada
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James Hicks
(voice)
Tom Hodgkins
(voice)
Eiji Kusuhara
(voice)
Patrick Poletti
(voice)
Jack Roberts
(voice)
James Bryce
Tsar Nicholas
Iona Holden
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Tony Donaldson
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James Donoher
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Kevin Bell
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Marina Novikova
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Tatyana Bugajev
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Lauren C Moore
Grand Duchess
Melanie Rodwell
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Patrick Morton
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Tom Farr
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Helmut Jacob
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Claudia Balsters
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Hans Kuhn
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Winston Churchill
Self (archive footage)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Self (archive footage)
Erich Honecker
Self (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)
Victor Sobchak
(voice)
Diran Meghrebian
(voice)
Katya Kamotskaya
(voice)
Gregory Berkolaiko
(voice)
Ralph Kaiser
(voice)
Christiane Voss-Riehle
(voice)
Richard Arbit
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Ralph Brutasis
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Hugo Gandonovsky
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K Herzeliya
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Rafael Haider
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Jameel Khoury
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Corey Marshall
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Pepi Pittl
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Joerg Stadler
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Ruth Glaser
(voice)
James Howick
(voice)
Ross Waiton
(voice)
Keith Whickham
(voice)
Simon Coury
Jean-François Champollion
Ali Mohamed Gaber
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Max Harvey
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David Payne
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Cassie Raine
Lady Evelyn Herbert
Nigel Winder
Howard Carter
Ricardo Agosti
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Ivan Avramenko
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John Basiulis
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Tamuna Cheishvilli
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Weetus Cren
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James Donaher
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Niel McCormack
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Alexei Palamarenko
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Andrew Taylor
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Dmitri Vakulov
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Bronagh Waugh
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Lee Wiginton
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Katarina Burgess
(voice)
Mindy Lee
(voice)
Eugene Kotchetov
(voice)
Gary Parker
(voice)
Andrea Piovan
(voice)
George Shiskovsky
(voice)
John McQuiston
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Oliver Burns
Herb Morrison
Mark McKerracher
Roger Boisjoly
Dickon Tolson
Charlie Nielsen
Ronald Fernee
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Stephen Armstrong
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Lutz Michael
Self
John Peters
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Grace Corrigan
Self - Astronaut (archive footage)
Leighton Haberfield
Flight Engineer
Christa McAuliffe
Self - Astronaut (archive footage)
Ron McNair
Self - Astronaut (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)
Francis Scobee
Self - Astronaut (archive footage)
Patrick Allen
Sir John French
Alan Booty
German Soldier
Stephan Erdman
Karl Meier
Rio Fanning
Horace Smith-Dorrien
Adrian Fear
Sir Edward Hulse
Charles Hunt
Douglas Haig
Andrew Venning
Private
William Bruno
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Amy Lynn Church
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P.J. McCarthy
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Patrick miller
Cordell Hull
Steve Roberts
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Darrin Stevens
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Kazu takeda
Cmdr. Fuchida
Dustin Thomas
William Stafford
Philip Brodie
Bruce Reynolds (as Phil Brodie)
Duncan Holmes
Frank Dewhurst
Karl Howard
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John Jones
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Cheryl Mackie
Miss Edwards
Mark Noble
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Michael Ryan
David Whitby
Sarah Anthony
(as Sarah Shaw)
Tim Smith
Roy James
David Sparks
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