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{
  "se": "S01E01",
  "title": "A New Germany: 1933-1939",
  "tt": 1129863,
  "air_date": "1973-10-31",
  "description": "Program chronicles the draconian measures taken by Adolf Hitler to become absolute dictator of Germany and begin his domination of Europe.",
  "cast": [
    {
      "name": "Laurence Olivier",
      "nm": 59,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Narrator",
          "voice": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Christabel Bielenberg",
      "nm": 81401,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Emmi Bonhoeffer",
      "nm": 94511,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Eva Braun",
      "nm": 105751,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Joseph Chamberlain",
      "nm": 1263257,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Joseph Goebbels",
      "nm": 324305,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Hugh Greene",
      "nm": 1232568,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Hermann Göring",
      "nm": 351425,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Lord Halifax",
      "nm": 355191,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Rudolf Hess",
      "nm": 381523,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Heinrich Himmler",
      "nm": 385441,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Adolf Hitler",
      "nm": 386944,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Hans Kehrl",
      "nm": 444985,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Benito Mussolini",
      "nm": 615907,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Paul von Hindenburg",
      "nm": 902438,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Joachim von Ribbentrop",
      "nm": 902861,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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{
  "se": "S01E02",
  "title": "Distant War: September 1939-May 1940",
  "tt": 1129867,
  "air_date": "1973-11-07",
  "description": "France and England enter World War 2 following Germany's invasion of Poland. But with the exception of its navy England is rather uncertain how to prepare. After a failed operation in Norway lead by Churchill, Chamberlain is, ironically, replaced as Prime Minister by Churchill.",
  "cast": [
    {
      "name": "Laurence Olivier",
      "nm": 59,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Narrator",
          "voice": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Robert Boothby",
      "nm": 95828,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Lord Boothby": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "R.A. Butler",
      "nm": 125033,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Lord Butler": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Lord Chandos",
      "nm": 151500,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "J.R. Colville",
      "nm": 173422,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Lucy Faithfull",
      "nm": 265716,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Bernard Kops",
      "nm": 465956,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Martin Lindsay",
      "nm": 512275,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Captain Mark Lindsay": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "John Simon",
      "nm": 800388,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Charles Woodhouse",
      "nm": 940318,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Sir Charles Woodhouse": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Neville Chamberlain",
      "nm": 150196,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive sound": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Winston Churchill",
      "nm": 161476,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Édouard Daladier",
      "nm": 197566,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Gracie Fields",
      "nm": 276247,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "George Formby",
      "nm": 286399,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Adolf Hitler",
      "nm": 386944,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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{
  "se": "S01E03",
  "title": "France Falls: May-June 1940",
  "tt": 1129868,
  "air_date": "1973-11-14",
  "description": "As their forces invade Northern Europe German strategists capitalize time and again on French preconceptions confounding French defenses.",
  "cast": [
    {
      "name": "Laurence Olivier",
      "nm": 59,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Narrator",
          "voice": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "André Beaufre",
      "nm": 64480,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as General André Beaufre": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Charles de Gaulle",
      "nm": 208540,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Lawrence Durrell",
      "nm": 244357,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Adolf Hitler",
      "nm": 386944,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Edward Spears",
      "nm": 817354,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Sir Edward Spears": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Hasso von Manteuffel",
      "nm": 902666,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as General von Manteuffel": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Walter Warlimont",
      "nm": 912307,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as General Warlimont": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Gordon Waterfield",
      "nm": 913948,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Siegfried Westphal",
      "nm": 923056,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as General Siegfried Westphal": true
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
},
{
  "se": "S01E04",
  "title": "Alone: May 1940-May 1941",
  "tt": 1129864,
  "air_date": "1973-11-21",
  "description": "Following the defeat and retreat at Dunkirk, Britain desperately works to rearm and prepare their defenses. But Germany was not well prepared to press their offensive and invade. After losing the Battle of Britain Germany begins bombing British cities. The British launch an offensive in North Africa hoping to distract the Germans attention from the British Isles.",
  "cast": [
    {
      "name": "Laurence Olivier",
      "nm": 59,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Narrator",
          "voice": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Max Aitken",
      "nm": 14892,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Sir Max Aitken": true
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Lord Beaverbrook",
      "nm": 64782,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "J.R. Colville",
      "nm": 173422,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Anthony Eden",
      "nm": 249075,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Lord Avon": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Adolf Galland",
      "nm": 302529,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "also archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Charles Gardner",
      "nm": 2835232,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - BBC Reporter",
          "archive sound": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Bertie Good",
      "nm": 328668,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Hermann Göring",
      "nm": 351425,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Ray Holmes",
      "nm": 392016,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "King George VI",
      "nm": 454377,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "John McBeath",
      "nm": 564244,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Rear-Admiral John McBeath": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "J.B. Priestley",
      "nm": 697362,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother",
      "nm": 703069,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Robert Wright",
      "nm": 942761,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Winston Churchill",
      "nm": 161476,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive sound": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Adolf Hitler",
      "nm": 386944,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
},
{
  "se": "S01E05",
  "title": "Barbarossa: June-December 1941",
  "tt": 1129866,
  "air_date": "1973-11-28",
  "description": "Following the conquest of France Hitler, almost casually by blitzkrieg standards, turn his eyes toward Russia. But Stalin is equally lackadaisical in preparing defenses against Germany. The German invasion rapidly reaches the gates of Moscow where it is stopped cold by the onset of winter then crushed by the Russian counterattack.",
  "cast": [
    {
      "name": "Laurence Olivier",
      "nm": 59,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Narrator",
          "voice": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Ion Antonescu",
      "nm": 31303,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Averell Harriman",
      "nm": 364207,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "King Boris III",
      "nm": 454369,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "King Michael",
      "nm": 454397,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Vyacheslav Molotov",
      "nm": 597254,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "John Russell",
      "nm": 751457,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Sir John Russell": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Paul Schmidt",
      "nm": 773145,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Albert Speer",
      "nm": 817553,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Joseph Stalin",
      "nm": 821672,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Grigori Tokaty",
      "nm": 865735,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Walter Warlimont",
      "nm": 912307,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as General Warlimont": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Adolf Hitler",
      "nm": 386944,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
},
{
  "se": "S01E06",
  "title": "Banzai! Japan: 1931-1942",
  "tt": 1129865,
  "air_date": "1973-12-05",
  "description": "Following Japan's conquest of eastern Asia the Allies finally respond with sanctions. They prove so threatening to Japan that it prepares to conquer Southeast Asia to secure the resources it needs. But first the threat from the British and American Pacific fleets must be eliminated.",
  "cast": [
    {
      "name": "Laurence Olivier",
      "nm": 59,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Narrator",
          "voice": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Mitsuo Fuchida",
      "nm": 297164,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Minoru Genda",
      "nm": 312658,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Hirohito",
      "nm": 386375,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Adolf Hitler",
      "nm": 386944,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Toshikazu Kase",
      "nm": 440479,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Koichi Kido",
      "nm": 452310,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Ian Mutsu",
      "nm": 616159,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Yuzuru Sanematsu",
      "nm": 762514,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "J.G. Smyth",
      "nm": 810805,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Joseph Stalin",
      "nm": 821672,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Ichiji Sugita",
      "nm": 837518,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Tomohiko Ushiba",
      "nm": 882345,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
},
{
  "se": "S01E07",
  "title": "On Our Way: U.S.A. - 1939-1942",
  "tt": 1129876,
  "air_date": "1973-12-12",
  "description": "Although those in the know figured it was just a matter of time, the United States only reluctantly participated in World War 2. But it was not a foregone conclusion that the United States would side against both Germany and Japan. Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor precipitated a quick decision. But in Germany's case a long series of mutual provocations, some intended, some not, gradually turned the United States against Germany.",
  "cast": [
    {
      "name": "Laurence Olivier",
      "nm": 59,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Narrator",
          "voice": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "George Ball",
      "nm": 50373,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Vannevar Bush",
      "nm": 124220,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Masataka Chihaya",
      "nm": 1363209,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "J. Lawton Collins",
      "nm": 172351,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as General Lawton Collins": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "J.R. Colville",
      "nm": 173422,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Norman Corwin",
      "nm": 181658,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "James Doolittle",
      "nm": 233232,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as General James Doolittle": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Mitsuo Fuchida",
      "nm": 297164,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "John Kenneth Galbraith",
      "nm": 301764,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Minoru Genda",
      "nm": 312658,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Averell Harriman",
      "nm": 364207,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "John J. McCloy",
      "nm": 565943,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Isamu Noguchi",
      "nm": 634019,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Paul Samuelson",
      "nm": 1575486,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Richard Tregaskis",
      "nm": 871730,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Edison Uno",
      "nm": 881299,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Winston Churchill",
      "nm": 161476,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Bing Crosby",
      "nm": 1078,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Bob Hope",
      "nm": 1362,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Tyrone Power",
      "nm": 61,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Franklin D. Roosevelt",
      "nm": 740483,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Jonathan M. Wainwright",
      "nm": 906539,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
},
{
  "se": "S01E08",
  "title": "The Desert: North Africa - 1940-1943",
  "tt": 1129883,
  "air_date": "1973-12-19",
  "description": "In 1940 Mussolini deploys a massive army to invade British held Egypt, to capture the Suez Canal and most of all to establish an Italian empire to rival Germany's. So begins a multi-year campaign over a meaningless stretch of desert involving forces from a dozen nations and characterized by persistent attackers, stubborn defenders and ultimately controlled by supply line challenges.",
  "cast": [
    {
      "name": "Laurence Olivier",
      "nm": 59,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Narrator",
          "voice": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "David Belchem",
      "nm": 67629,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Gen. David Belchem": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Winston Churchill",
      "nm": 161476,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Paola Colacicchi",
      "nm": 2862728,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Italian Army"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Francis de Guingand",
      "nm": 208761,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Gen. Sir Francis De Guingard": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Lawrence Durrell",
      "nm": 244357,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Field Marshal Lord Harding",
      "nm": 2862410,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Commander, 7th Armoured Division"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Richard O'Connor",
      "nm": 640522,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Gen. Sir Richard O'Connor": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Erwin Rommel",
      "nm": 739683,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Siegfried Westphal",
      "nm": 923056,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Bernard L. Montgomery",
      "nm": 599728,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Benito Mussolini",
      "nm": 615907,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
},
{
  "se": "S01E09",
  "title": "Stalingrad: June 1942-February 1943",
  "tt": 1129881,
  "air_date": "1974-01-02",
  "description": "Germany is dealt a crushing defeat when the Russians' stubborn defense of Stalingrad delays the German offensive giving the Russians time to mass their forces for a counter attack that surrounds then destroys the German Sixth Army and its supporting forces.",
  "cast": [
    {
      "name": "Laurence Olivier",
      "nm": 59,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Narrator",
          "voice": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Adolf Hitler",
      "nm": 386944,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Friedrich Paulus",
      "nm": 902802,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
},
{
  "se": "S01E10",
  "title": "Wolf Pack: U-Boats in the Atlantic - 1939-1944",
  "tt": 1129886,
  "air_date": "1974-01-09",
  "description": "For three years German u-boats ravage transatlantic convoys. Despite the critical need for the supplies and materiel British leadership give scant attention to the matter for two years. Finally in 1943 the allies begin introducing new tactics and weapons while Germany continues to focus on the numbers game.",
  "cast": [
    {
      "name": "Laurence Olivier",
      "nm": 59,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Narrator",
          "voice": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Edward Butler",
      "nm": 124907,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Peter Cremer",
      "nm": 187347,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Karl Dönitz",
      "nm": 246872,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Grossadmiral Karl Donitz": true
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "William Edward Rawlings Eyton-Jones",
      "nm": 2870305,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - S.S. Ben Vrachie",
          "as Captain Eyton-Jones": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Thomas Finch",
      "nm": 277462,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Peter Gretton",
      "nm": 340417,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Gretton": true
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Raymond Hart",
      "nm": 366487,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Captain Raymond Hart": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Adolf Hitler",
      "nm": 386944,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Otto Kretschmer",
      "nm": 470994,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Flotillenadmiral Otto Kretschmer": true
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    },
    {
      "name": "Hartwig Looks",
      "nm": 519660,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Kapt. z. See Hartwig Looks": true
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    {
      "name": "Wilfred Oulton",
      "nm": 653584,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Air Vice Marshall Wilfred Oulton": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Gilbert Roberts",
      "nm": 731128,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Captain Gilbert Roberts": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Robert Sherwood",
      "nm": 792844,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Captain Robert Sherwood": true
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Rodney Stone",
      "nm": 832142,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Winston Churchill",
      "nm": 161476,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
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      ]
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},
{
  "se": "S01E11",
  "title": "Red Star: The Soviet Union - 1941-1943",
  "tt": 1129879,
  "air_date": "1974-01-16",
  "description": "Bent on fulfilling Hilter's policy of colonizing Russia, German forces invade subjecting inhabitants of occupied lands to servitude or death. Russians respond with a mass evacuation and scorched earth policy, reestablishing their industrial capacity far to the east. After German forces fail to break Lenigrade or to capture Kursk and the surrounding Russian forces Russia goes on the offensive with its military production at full capacity.",
  "cast": [
    {
      "name": "Laurence Olivier",
      "nm": 59,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Narrator",
          "voice": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Ivan Chistyakov",
      "nm": 2879095,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Commander, 6th Guard Army"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Vsevelod Klokov",
      "nm": 2880128,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Ukrainian Partisan"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Ivan Ludnikov",
      "nm": 2879446,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Corps Commander"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Hans Rudel",
      "nm": 3448125,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Olga Rybakova",
      "nm": 2879480,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself - Leningrad Housewife"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Joseph Stalin",
      "nm": 821672,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Nikolai Volkov",
      "nm": 2879849,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Factory Worker"
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      ]
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},
{
  "se": "S01E12",
  "title": "Whirlwind: Bombing Germany - September 1939-April 1944",
  "tt": 1129885,
  "air_date": "1974-01-23",
  "description": "While the British continue to rely on night bombing the American forces attempt to use more dangerous but more precise daylight bombing to interdict German military production and crush the national will.",
  "cast": [
    {
      "name": "Laurence Olivier",
      "nm": 59,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Narrator",
          "voice": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Hans Brunswig",
      "nm": 116620,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Winston Churchill",
      "nm": 161476,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "John Corcoran",
      "nm": 2602816,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Pilot"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Ira C. Eaker",
      "nm": 247139,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Lieutenant General Ira C. Eaker": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Adolf Galland",
      "nm": 302529,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as General Adlof Galland": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Joseph Goebbels",
      "nm": 324305,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Arthur Harris",
      "nm": 365337,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Sir Arthur Harris": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Wilhelm Herget",
      "nm": 378951,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Leon Johnson",
      "nm": 425631,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Group Commander",
          "as General Leon Johnson": true
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Curtis LeMay",
      "nm": 501144,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Divisional Commander",
          "as General Curtis Le May": true
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Hamish Mahaddie",
      "nm": 536700,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Group Captain Hamish McAddie": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "William Reid",
      "nm": 717471,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "John Rogan",
      "nm": 736581,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Werner Schroer",
      "nm": 775565,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Albert Speer",
      "nm": 817553,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "James Stewart",
      "nm": 71,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Squadron Commander",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Lore Thran",
      "nm": 861874,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself",
          "as Frau Lore Thran": true
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Ben Witter",
      "nm": 937010,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Journalit"
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      ]
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  ]
},
{
  "se": "S01E13",
  "title": "Tough Old Gut: Italy - November 1942-June 1944",
  "tt": 1129884,
  "air_date": "1974-01-30",
  "description": "After driving the Germans from North Africa the Allies turn their sites on Italy. But the Italian campaign turned out to be tougher the anyone expected. American reluctance to divert resources from the planned Normandy invasion, geographic challenges and German reinforcements hinders the Allied campaign which continued until the eve of the Normandy invasion.",
  "cast": [
    {
      "name": "Laurence Olivier",
      "nm": 59,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Narrator",
          "voice": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Harold Alexander",
      "nm": 18460,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Bill Becket",
      "nm": 2928844,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Sherwood Foresters"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Alan Brooke",
      "nm": 111684,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Winston Churchill",
      "nm": 161476,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Mark W. Clark",
      "nm": 164254,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Commander, U.S. 5th Army",
          "as General Mark Clark": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Walter Davis",
      "nm": 2929072,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Sherwood Foresters"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Field Marshal Lord Harding",
      "nm": 2862410,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Alexander's Chief of Staff"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Albert Kesselring",
      "nm": 450278,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Bill Mauldin",
      "nm": 560887,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Cartoonist, 'Stars and Stripes'"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Drew Middleton",
      "nm": 2854907,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Benito Mussolini",
      "nm": 615907,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Joseph Stalin",
      "nm": 821672,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Kenneth Strong",
      "nm": 835054,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Gen. Sir Kenneth Strong": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Wynford Vaughan-Thomas",
      "nm": 891132,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Siegfried Westphal",
      "nm": 923056,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as General Siegfried Westphal": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Adolf Hitler",
      "nm": 386944,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Franklin D. Roosevelt",
      "nm": 740483,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
},
{
  "se": "S01E14",
  "title": "It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow: Burma - 1942-1944",
  "tt": 1130691,
  "air_date": "1974-02-06",
  "description": "Allied forces were totally unprepared for the Japanese invasion of Burma in 1942. The Japanese quickly overran the country. The Allies counter-attacked using troops unfamiliar with jungle warfare which were unsuccessful against the Japanese guerrilla forces. But the Allies persisted and gradually adapted to the jungle environment. As additional forces arrived the Allies succeeded in destroying the Japanese forces.",
  "cast": [
    {
      "name": "Laurence Olivier",
      "nm": 59,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Narrator",
          "voice": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Walter Boller",
      "nm": 2928766,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Major, R.O.A.C."
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Sydney Bowers",
      "nm": 2925411,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Sergeant, R.A.F."
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Leonard Brown",
      "nm": 2928892,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Private, 14th Army"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Michael Calvert",
      "nm": 130822,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Brigadier Michael Calvert": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Gilbert Collins",
      "nm": 2925466,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Gunner, 14th Army"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Neville G. Gordon",
      "nm": 2929234,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Captain, 14th Army"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Vera Lynn",
      "nm": 528822,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself",
          "also archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Louis Mountbatten",
      "nm": 609884,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Lord Louis Mountbatten": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Teruo Okada",
      "nm": 645437,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Lt. Teruo Okada": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "J.G. Smyth",
      "nm": 810805,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - 17th Div., Burma",
          "as General Sir J.G. Smyth V.C.": true
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Freddie Tomkins",
      "nm": 2929343,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Sergeant, 14th Army"
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      ]
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},
{
  "se": "S01E15",
  "title": "Home Fires: Britain - 1940-1944",
  "tt": 1129870,
  "air_date": "1974-02-13",
  "description": "The war effort required total commitment from British citizens stretching their bodies and spirits to the breaking point and occasionally beyond it. As a result of grim news early in the war, German bombing of British cities and disagreements on critical policies Churchill faced a no confidence vote. But extraordinary measures gradually put the kingdom on an effective war footing.",
  "cast": [
    {
      "name": "Laurence Olivier",
      "nm": 59,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Narrator",
          "voice": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "William Beveridge",
      "nm": 2929108,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Gwen Bunt",
      "nm": 2929032,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself",
          "as Mrs Gwen Bunt": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "R.A. Butler",
      "nm": 125033,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Minister of Education",
          "as Lord Butler": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Lord Chandos",
      "nm": 151500,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Stafford Cripps",
      "nm": 187916,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Ambassador to Russia 1940-1942",
          "archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Tom Driberg",
      "nm": 990471,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Tom Driberg M.P.": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Anthony Eden",
      "nm": 249075,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Lord Avon": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Trevor Evans",
      "nm": 2928869,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Sir Trevor Evans": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Gracie Fields",
      "nm": 276247,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Michael Foot",
      "nm": 285192,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Acting Editor, Evening Standard 1942",
          "also archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "David Hewetson",
      "nm": 2928115,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Bevin Boy 1943-1947",
          "also archive footage": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "George Hodgkinson",
      "nm": 5181387,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Chairman, Coventry War Emergency Committee",
          "as Alderman G. Hodgkinson": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Cecil King",
      "nm": 2925513,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Director, Daily Mirror"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Frederick Marquis",
      "nm": 2927941,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Minister of Food 1940-1943",
          "as Lord Woolton": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Bernard Miles",
      "nm": 587061,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
        }
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    {
      "name": "J.B. Priestley",
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        {
          "char": "Himself"
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    },
    {
      "name": "Bill Roberts",
      "nm": 730861,
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        {
          "char": "Himself - Betteshanger Miner"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Emanuel Shinwell",
      "nm": 2928325,
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Lord Shinwell": true
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    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Herma Wolfgang",
      "nm": 2927836,
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        {
          "char": "Herself",
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    {
      "name": "Lord Beaverbrook",
      "nm": 64782,
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Ernest Bevin",
      "nm": 79780,
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Winston Churchill",
      "nm": 161476,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "George Formby",
      "nm": 286399,
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
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    {
      "name": "Tommy Handley",
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          "char": "Radio Characters",
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          "archive footage": true
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    {
      "name": "Myra Hess",
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          "char": "Herself",
          "archive footage": true
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  "se": "S01E16",
  "title": "Inside the Reich: Germany - 1940-1944",
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  "air_date": "1974-02-20",
  "description": "Germany is jubilant after the surrender of France. Then the unsuccessful expansion of the war to include Russia and England gradually turns German morale from joy to fatalism. Even der Führer falls victim to the insidious fatalism caused first by the crushing defeat at Stalingrad then the bunker bombing that nearly killed him. All the while the tightening Nazi grip and Allied assaults adds to the gloom of fear.",
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    {
      "name": "Laurence Olivier",
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        {
          "char": "Himself - Narrator",
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    {
      "name": "Hertha Beese",
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        {
          "char": "Herself"
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    {
      "name": "Christabel Bielenberg",
      "nm": 81401,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself"
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      ]
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    {
      "name": "Emmi Bonhoeffer",
      "nm": 94511,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself"
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    },
    {
      "name": "Martin Bormann",
      "nm": 97006,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Roland Freisler",
      "nm": 293887,
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
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    {
      "name": "Joseph Goebbels",
      "nm": 324305,
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
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      ]
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      "name": "Hermann Göring",
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      "name": "Heinrich Himmler",
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          "char": "Himself",
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    {
      "name": "Adolf Hitler",
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          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Otto John",
      "nm": 424210,
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
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    {
      "name": "Traudl Junge",
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        {
          "char": "Herself"
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    {
      "name": "Hans Kehrl",
      "nm": 444985,
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        {
          "char": "Himself"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Friedrich Luft",
      "nm": 525175,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Richard Schultze-Kossens",
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        {
          "char": "Himself"
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      ]
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    {
      "name": "Albert Speer",
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      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Marlene Tucking",
      "nm": 2930384,
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        {
          "char": "Herself"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Fritz Todt",
      "nm": 865428,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
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  "se": "S01E17",
  "title": "Morning: June-August 1944",
  "tt": 1129873,
  "air_date": "1974-02-27",
  "description": "Four years after France fell the Allies invade Normandy. Caught by surprise the German defenses are quickly overcome. Heading inland the Allies win major victories against fierce resistance.",
  "cast": [
    {
      "name": "Laurence Olivier",
      "nm": 59,
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        {
          "char": "Himself - Narrator",
          "voice": true
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "David Belchem",
      "nm": 67629,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Maj. Gen. David Belchem": true
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      ]
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    {
      "name": "Winston Churchill",
      "nm": 161476,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "J. Lawton Collins",
      "nm": 172351,
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
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      ]
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    {
      "name": "Charles de Gaulle",
      "nm": 208540,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
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      ]
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    {
      "name": "Dwight D. Eisenhower",
      "nm": 252032,
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Louis Mountbatten",
      "nm": 609884,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Lord Louis Mountbatten": true
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    {
      "name": "Goronwy Rees",
      "nm": 715912,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Franklin D. Roosevelt",
      "nm": 740483,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "J.M. Stagg",
      "nm": 821380,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Dr. J.M. Stagg": true
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      ]
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    {
      "name": "Kay Summersby",
      "nm": 838825,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself - Eisenhower's Driver"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Gerd von Rundstedt",
      "nm": 902906,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Bob Hope",
      "nm": 1362,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Bernard L. Montgomery",
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
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      ]
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    {
      "name": "Erwin Rommel",
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
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  "se": "S01E18",
  "title": "Occupation: Holland - 1940-1944",
  "tt": 1129875,
  "air_date": "1974-03-13",
  "description": "The Dutch are shocked when the Germans bomb Rotterdam and invade their neutral country. But Germany follows with insidious conciliatory gestures that ease tensions. Germany gradually exploits the populace with conscriptions, forced labor and deportation of Jewish citizens. Finally anticipating liberation as the Allies move westward, Dutch suffering intensifies. As the German propagandists had claimed, liberation brought devastation, not from warfare but from a brutal German embargo and intensified deportations.",
  "cast": [
    {
      "name": "Laurence Olivier",
      "nm": 59,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Narrator",
          "voice": true
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Rita Boas-Koopman",
      "nm": 1028219,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself",
          "as Rita Boas Koopman": true
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "J.A.H.J.S. Bruins Slot",
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
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      ]
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    {
      "name": "J.F. Bubberman-Boer",
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        {
          "char": "Herself"
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      ]
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    {
      "name": "Eddy Christiani",
      "nm": 160120,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Louis De Jong",
      "nm": 209003,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Petra Eldering",
      "nm": 2932546,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself"
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      ]
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    {
      "name": "Jan Kilkens",
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      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
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      ]
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    {
      "name": "Jetty Paerl",
      "nm": 669096,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself",
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      "name": "Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands",
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      "name": "J.B. Roodbol",
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        {
          "char": "Himself"
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    {
      "name": "Florrie Rost van Tonningen",
      "nm": 744535,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself",
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    {
      "name": "Arthur Seyss-Inquart",
      "nm": 786896,
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "R.M. van der Veen",
      "nm": 886437,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "T. van Ralte",
      "nm": 887768,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as T. Van Ralte": true
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    {
      "name": "Gerben Wagenar",
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        {
          "char": "Himself"
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      "name": "R.B. Woudenber",
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        {
          "char": "Himself"
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  "se": "S01E19",
  "title": "Pincers: August 1944-March 1945",
  "tt": 1129878,
  "air_date": "1974-03-20",
  "description": "As the Allies debate how to prosecute the the invasion of Germany, Hitler settles the question with a massive counter attack in the Ardenne. Failure of the attack leaves German defenses of the Western Front in shambles. Meanwhile, Russian forces are also closing in but Stalin orders a pause so the SS can crush the Polish resistance.",
  "cast": [
    {
      "name": "Laurence Olivier",
      "nm": 59,
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        {
          "char": "Himself - Narrator",
          "voice": true
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      ]
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    {
      "name": "J. Lawton Collins",
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        {
          "char": "Himself - General, U.S VII Corps"
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    {
      "name": "Charles de Gaulle",
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
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      ]
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    {
      "name": "Francis de Guingand",
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        {
          "char": "Himself - General Sir, Montgomery's Chief of Staff"
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      "name": "Averell Harriman",
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        {
          "char": "Himself - U.S. Ambassador to Russia 1943-46"
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      "name": "Brian Horrocks",
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        {
          "char": "Himself - General Sir, 30 Corps Commander"
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    {
      "name": "Kenneth Strong",
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        {
          "char": "Himself - General Sir, Eisenhower's Intelligence Chief"
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    {
      "name": "Wynford Vaughan-Thomas",
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        {
          "char": "Himself - War Correspondent"
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    {
      "name": "Hasso von Manteuffel",
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        {
          "char": "Himself - German Panzer Commander"
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    {
      "name": "Siegfried Westphal",
      "nm": 923056,
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        {
          "char": "Himself - Chief of Staff, German Armies in the West"
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  "se": "S01E20",
  "title": "Genocide: 1941-1945",
  "tt": 1129869,
  "air_date": "1974-03-27",
  "description": "The history of the Nazi persecution of the Jews, showing events leading to the \"Final Solution\". Footage and Interviews with SS officers and Jewish survivors from various countries describe how the extermination camps operated and what existence was like there.",
  "cast": [
    {
      "name": "Laurence Olivier",
      "nm": 59,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Narrator",
          "voice": true
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Rita Boas-Koopman",
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        {
          "char": "Herself - Dutch Jew",
          "as Rita Boas Koopman": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Richard Böch",
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      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself S.S. Lance Corporal"
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    {
      "name": "Anthony Eden",
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "as Lord Avon": true
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    },
    {
      "name": "Wilhelm Hoettl",
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        {
          "char": "Himself - S.S. Major",
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    },
    {
      "name": "Avraham Kochavi",
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        {
          "char": "Himself - Polish Jew"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Primo Levi",
      "nm": 505485,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Italian Jew"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Dov Paisikovic",
      "nm": 2962630,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Hungarian Jew"
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      ]
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    {
      "name": "Rudolf Vrba",
      "nm": 904020,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Czechoslovak Jew"
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      ]
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    {
      "name": "Karl Wolff",
      "nm": 938273,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Rivka Yosilevska",
      "nm": 2962193,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself - Polish Jew"
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      ]
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    {
      "name": "Hermann Göring",
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
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    {
      "name": "Heinrich Himmler",
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
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    {
      "name": "Adolf Hitler",
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      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
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  "se": "S01E21",
  "title": "Nemesis: Germany - February-May 1945",
  "tt": 1129874,
  "air_date": "1974-04-03",
  "description": "The closing weeks of the European war bring retribution for Germany in the form of carpet bombing cities like Dresden, the collapse of the Whermacht, atrocities by Soviet forces, and finally the fall of Berlin and suicide of Hitler.",
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    {
      "name": "Laurence Olivier",
      "nm": 59,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Narrator",
          "voice": true
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      ]
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    {
      "name": "Vladimir Antonov",
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      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Red Army",
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    {
      "name": "Eberhard Bethge",
      "nm": 1397347,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Prisoner of the Gestapo"
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    },
    {
      "name": "Eva Braun",
      "nm": 105751,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself",
          "archive footage": true
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    {
      "name": "C.J.R. Duffin",
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        {
          "char": "Himself - 6th Guards Armoured Bdge",
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    {
      "name": "Willy Feldheim",
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "15 year old soldier at time of war": true
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    {
      "name": "Ursula Grey",
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      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself - Dresden Civilian"
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    {
      "name": "Adolf Hitler",
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Traudl Junge",
      "nm": 432622,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself"
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      ]
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    {
      "name": "Heinz Linge",
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        {
          "char": "Himself - Hitler's Valet"
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      "name": "Friedrich Luft",
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        {
          "char": "Himself - Berliner"
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    {
      "name": "Anna Nikulina",
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      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself - Red Army",
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    {
      "name": "Felix Putterman",
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      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - U.S. Artilleryman"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Yelena Reveshkaya",
      "nm": 2964193,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself - Red Army Interpreter",
          "as Lt. Yelena Reveshkaya": true
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Christa Ronke",
      "nm": 2962295,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself - Berliner"
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      ]
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    {
      "name": "John Seney",
      "nm": 2963353,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - U.S. Paratrooper"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Albert Speer",
      "nm": 817553,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Carola Stern",
      "nm": 1917351,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself - German Citizen"
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  "se": "S01E22",
  "title": "Japan: 1941-1945",
  "tt": 1129872,
  "air_date": "1974-04-10",
  "description": "After the victories in 1941-2, Japanese fortunes reverse as America succeeds in destroying their aircraft fleet and Pacific island bases. At home, shortages of goods and manpower lead to desperation for the population.",
  "cast": [
    {
      "name": "Laurence Olivier",
      "nm": 59,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - Narrator",
          "voice": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Naoki Hoshino",
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          "char": "Himself - Cabinet Minister"
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    {
      "name": "Toshikazu Kase",
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          "char": "Himself"
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    {
      "name": "Teruo Okada",
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          "char": "Himself"
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    {
      "name": "Hideki Tojo",
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          "char": "Himself",
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  "se": "S01E23",
  "title": "Pacific: February 1942-July 1945",
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      "name": "Laurence Olivier",
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          "char": "Himself - Narrator",
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      "name": "Frank Manson",
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          "char": "Himself - Lieutenant, U.S. Navy"
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    {
      "name": "Roy Voris",
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          "char": "Himself - Lieutenant, U.S. Navy"
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    {
      "name": "Douglas MacArthur",
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
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    {
      "name": "Chester W. Nimitz",
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          "char": "Himself",
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  "se": "S01E24",
  "title": "The Bomb: February-September 1945",
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  "description": "Following the events from the death of US President Roosevelt through to the dropping of the two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that prompted Japan's surrender.",
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      "name": "Laurence Olivier",
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          "char": "Himself - Narrator",
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      "name": "McGeorge Bundy",
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          "char": "Himself"
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    {
      "name": "James Byrnes",
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        {
          "char": "Himself"
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    {
      "name": "Anthony Eden",
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
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    {
      "name": "Averell Harriman",
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      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
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    {
      "name": "Alger Hiss",
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      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
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    {
      "name": "Toshikazu Kase",
      "nm": 440479,
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        {
          "char": "Himself"
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    {
      "name": "Koichi Kido",
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
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    {
      "name": "Yoshio Kodama",
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          "char": "Himself"
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    {
      "name": "John J. McCloy",
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          "char": "Himself",
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    {
      "name": "J. Robert Oppenheimer",
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          "char": "Himself",
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    {
      "name": "Hisatsune Sakomizu",
      "nm": 757229,
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        {
          "char": "Himself"
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    {
      "name": "Charles W. Sweeney",
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      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself",
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    {
      "name": "Paul Tibbets",
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
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    {
      "name": "Douglas MacArthur",
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
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    {
      "name": "Harry S. Truman",
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
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  "se": "S01E25",
  "title": "Reckoning: 1945... and After",
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  "air_date": "1974-05-01",
  "description": "As wretched survivours suffer deprivations amongst the ruins, half of Germany and eastern Europe trade one socialist tyranny for another as the Soviets take power. Japan is occupied by the U. S., but the colonial empires disintegrate.",
  "cast": [
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      "name": "Laurence Olivier",
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          "char": "Himself - Narrator",
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    {
      "name": "Stephen Ambrose",
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        {
          "char": "Himself"
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    {
      "name": "Charles Bohlen",
      "nm": 2962699,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - U.S. State Department, 1945"
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    {
      "name": "Anthony Eden",
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
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    {
      "name": "Noble Frankland",
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        {
          "char": "Himself"
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    {
      "name": "Ursula Gray",
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          "char": "Herself - German Refugee, 1945"
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    {
      "name": "Averell Harriman",
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          "char": "Himself"
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    {
      "name": "Douglas MacArthur",
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          "char": "Himself",
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    {
      "name": "Louis Mountbatten",
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          "char": "Himself",
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    {
      "name": "William Robertson",
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        {
          "char": "Himself - U.S. Army, 1945"
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    {
      "name": "Christa Ronke",
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          "char": "Herself - Berliner, 1945"
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    {
      "name": "Hartley Shawcross",
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        {
          "char": "Himself"
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    {
      "name": "Albert Speer",
      "nm": 817553,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself"
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    {
      "name": "Douglas Spencer",
      "nm": 2963305,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Himself - U.K. Occupation Force, 1945"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Kay Summersby",
      "nm": 838825,
      "roles": [
        {
          "char": "Herself - U.S. Army, 1945"
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    {
      "name": "Hermann Göring",
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          "char": "Himself",
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    {
      "name": "Rudolf Hess",
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
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    {
      "name": "Joseph Stalin",
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        {
          "char": "Himself",
          "archive footage": true
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      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Harry S. Truman",
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          "char": "Himself",
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  "se": "S01E26",
  "title": "Remember",
  "tt": 1129880,
  "air_date": "1974-05-08",
  "description": "For many the Second World War was the most significant experience of their lives. These are heartbreaking first hand remembrances from a vast array of survivors from both sides of the war.",
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      "name": "Laurence Olivier",
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          "char": "Himself - Narrator",
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      "name": "John Barne",
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          "char": "Himself"
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    {
      "name": "Stanley Drinkwater",
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          "char": "Himself"
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    {
      "name": "Lawrence Durrell",
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          "char": "Himself"
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    {
      "name": "Noble Frankland",
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          "char": "Himself"
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      "name": "J. Glenn Gray",
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          "char": "Himself - Authour 'The Warriors'"
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      "name": "Bill Mauldin",
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          "char": "Himself"
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    {
      "name": "Joe Minogue",
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          "char": "Himself"
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      "name": "Herman Pheffer",
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          "char": "Himself - Disabled U.S. Veteran"
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      "name": "Wynford Vaughan-Thomas",
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          "char": "Himself"
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