< Part 1 (1989)

EPISODE 1.1 (The Nightmare Years) | Open in IMDB | WL | ? / 5.7 (8)

Biography, Drama, History, War | American journalist William L. Shirer arrives in Nazi Germany with his Austrian-born wife Tess, and immediately witnesses events the National Socialists want hidden. He is frustrated by German Government controls on what news he can write.

• Director: Anthony Page
• Writer: William L. Shirer
• Writer: Christian Williams
• Writer: Bob Woodward
• Writer: Ian Curteis
• Sam Waterston (49) - Willam 'Bill' L. Shirer
• Marthe Keller (44) - Tess Shirer
• Cecelia Kindelan - Eileen Shirer
• Kurtwood Smith (46) - Dr. Josef Goebbels
• Frances Barber (31) - Helga Bauer
• Ronald Pickup (49) - Ernst 'Putzi' Hanfstaengl
• Peter Jeffrey (60) - Norman Ebbutt
• Frederick Jaeger (61) - Wilfred Bade
• Günther Maria Halmer (46) - Kellenbach
• Ronald Lacey (54) - Emil Luger
• Keith Edwards - Ralph Barnes
• Gillian Eaton (42) - Agnes Kickerbocker
• Bill Bailey (51) - Knick Knickerbocker
• Christopher Muncke (47) - Peter Butler
• Garrick Hagon - Edward R. Murrow
• Shane Rimmer (60) - Ambassador Dodd
• Madeleine Wynn - Martha Dodd
• Michael Fitzpatrick - Jeff Higgins
• John Steiner (48) - Reverend Lenz
• Vara Venezei - Mrs. Lenz