Docu-drama about the events that caused World War I, covering the final weeks from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria on 28 June 1914 to the UK declaring war on Germany on 4 August 1914.
Actors:
Ian McDiarmid as Edward Grey,
Nicholas Farrell as Eyre Crowe,
Tim Pigott-Smith as Herbert Henry Asquith,
Sinéad Cusack as Margot Asquith,
Bill Paterson as Lord Morley,
Kenneth Cranham as John Burns,
Ludger Pistor as Bethmann-Hollweg,
Rainer Sellien as Kaiser Wilhelm II,
Bernhard Schütz as Helmuth Moltke,
Mark Lewis Jones as David Lloyd George,
Nicholas Asbury as Winston Churchill,