The World Wars

DocumentaryWar & Politics20143 episodes1 seasonMiniseries

Tagline: WW1 made Roosevelt a man. WW2 made him a legend.

First aired: 2014-05-26

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Jeremy Renner
    Narrator
  • Jacopo Rampini
    Young Stalin
  • Sewell Whitney
    General George Marshall
  • Ian Beyts
    Winston Churchill
  • Dean Gosdin
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • Daniel Martin Berkey
    Elder General Douglas MacArthur
  • Daniel Martin Berkey
    General Douglas MacArthur
  • David Mitchum Brown
    Harry S. Truman
  • Kevin McKillip
    Young Roosevelt
  • Matt Dearman
    Young Patton