Miniseries

20143 EpisodesDrama

Cast & Crew

Tim Pigott-Smith

Herbert Henry Asquith

Nicholas Farrell

Eyre Crowe

Ludger Pistor

Bethmann-Hollweg

Oliver Ford Davies

Cunliffe

Kenneth Cranham

John Burns

Ian McDiarmid

Sir Edward Grey

Sinéad Cusack

Margot Asquith

Bill Paterson

Lord Morley

Mark Lewis Jones

David Lloyd George

Bernhard Schütz

Helmuth Moltke

Nicholas Asbury

Winston Churchill

Urs Remond

Prince Lichnowsky

Ian Beattie

Tsar Nicholas II

Rainer Sellien

Kaiser Wilhelm

Justin Hardy

Episode Guide

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.