The World Wars (2014) - The A.V. Club

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Season 2

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6. Peace at Last
5. Never Surrender
4. The Storm Explodes
3. The Rising Tide
2. The Price of Glory
1. Trial by Fire

Cast

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Maximilian Klas
Young Hitler
Ian Beyts
Winston Churchill
Jacopo Rampini
Young Stalin
Jonathan Hartman
Benito Mussolini
Nabil Vinas
Young Mussolini
Dean Gosdin
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Don Meehan
Charles DeGaulle
Michael Perrie Jr.
Young DeGaulle
Don Hartman
General George Patton
Wim De Groof
Field marshal German army (2014)
C. Conrad Cady
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
James William Barker
Prime Minister Chamberlain's Aid
Mike Adler
Hitlers cook
Tom Vickers
Young Churchill
Daniel Martin Berkey
The Elder General Douglas MacArthur
Steven Mackintosh
Narrated by
Hugh Scully
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Scott Barbarino
Joseph Stalin

Synopsis

The World Wars tells the story of three decades of war told through the eyes of various men who were its key players: Roosevelt, Hitler, Patton, Mussolini, Churchill, Tojo, DeGaulle and MacArthur. The series examines the two wars as one contiguous timeline starting in 1914 and concluding in 1945 with these unique individuals coming of age in World War I before ultimately calling the shots in World War II.