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Cold War

  • TV Mini Series
  • 19981998
  • 18h 40m
IMDb RATING
8.7/10
952
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POPULARITY
21,404
2,864
Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev in Cold War (1998)
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A 24-part series which deals with the relations between the United States, the Soviet Union and their respective allies between the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union in... Read allA 24-part series which deals with the relations between the United States, the Soviet Union and their respective allies between the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.A 24-part series which deals with the relations between the United States, the Soviet Union and their respective allies between the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
IMDb RATING
8.7/10
952
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
21,404
2,864
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    • Stars
      • Kenneth Branagh
      • Anatoli Dobrynin
      • Robert McNamara
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    • Stars
      • Kenneth Branagh
      • Anatoli Dobrynin
      • Robert McNamara
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    • 7User reviews
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    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
      • 2 wins & 2 nominations total

    Episodes24

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    Kenneth Branagh
    Kenneth Branagh
    • Narrator
    Anatoli Dobrynin
    • Self
    10 episodes10 eps • 1998
    Robert McNamara
    Robert McNamara
    • Self
    6 episodes6 eps • 1998
    Vladimir Yerofeyev
    • Self
    5 episodes5 eps • 1998
    George Elsey
    • Self
    4 episodes4 eps • 1998
    Frank Roberts
    • Self
    4 episodes4 eps • 1998
    Jimmy Carter
    Jimmy Carter
    • Self
    5 episodes5 eps • 1998
    Fidel Castro
    Fidel Castro
    • Self
    4 episodes4 eps • 1998
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    • Self
    4 episodes4 eps • 1998
    Dmitry Sukhanov
    • Self
    3 episodes3 eps • 1998
    Václav Havel
    Václav Havel
    • Self
    3 episodes3 eps • 1998
    Zbigniew Brzezinski
    Zbigniew Brzezinski
    • Self
    3 episodes3 eps • 1998
    Wojciech Jaruzelski
    Wojciech Jaruzelski
    • Self
    3 episodes3 eps • 1998
    Clark Clifford
    Clark Clifford
    • Self
    3 episodes3 eps • 1998
    Anatoly Cherniayev
    • Self
    3 episodes3 eps • 1998
    Vladimir Kryuchkov
    • Self
    3 episodes3 eps • 1998
    Karen Brutents
    • Self
    3 episodes3 eps • 1998
    Andrew Goodpaster
    • Self
    3 episodes3 eps • 1998
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    • Trivia
      The series excluded several Cold War issues and topics, including the Communist takeovers of South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in 1975, the subsequent unification of Vietnam and Vietnamese refugee crisis, the failed Communist revolution in Indonesia in 1965, China after Mao's passing, from the trial of the Gang of Four to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Bulgaria, Albania, and more details on the Dominican crisis of 1965.
    • Quotes

      Narrator: A cloud hides the sky; a nuclear shadow falls across the human future.

    • Connections
      Features Duck and Cover (1952)

    User reviews7

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    Top review
    10/10
    This is a wonderful effort
    This is a worthy successor to Jeremy Isaac's "The World At War". It is a very even-handed account of the entire post-war period up to the fall of the Soviet Union. Isaacs repeats his brilliant move of hiring a top-notch Shakespearean actor to do the narration. Kenneth Branagh's voice has clarity and authority, as did Laurence Olivier's in the earlier series. One is amazed at the range of people interviewed - even jailed spies are heard from! The facts are of course all there for the grasping and this series is chock full of them. I thought I had a fairly good mental picture of the period but was constantly shown something new, something that demanded a new perspective. That is all you can ask from an extended series like this. The production values are absolutely outstanding. And like the earlier series, this one features the outstanding music of Carl Davis. The opening theme ends with a jarring dissonance played by a single violin, almost a cry of pain. While "The World At War" ends in triumph and nostalgia, this series ends with question marks and regrets. "If only.." Yes, if only. If only there had been no Stalin. If only.

    I cannot recommend this series enough. It deserves a 10.
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    • Release date
      • 1998 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • United Kingdom
    • Official site
      • CNN
    • Languages
      • English
      • Russian
      • German
      • Polish
      • Italian
      • Pashtu
      • Czech
      • Greek
      • Korean
      • Mandarin
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • La guerra fría
    • Production companies
      • Cable News Network (CNN)
      • Jeremy Isaacs Productions Ltd.
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    • Runtime
      18 hours 40 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono

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