LAST DAYS OF WORLD WAR II: A NATION'S COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY

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• Release Year: 1995
• Genre: Documentary, War
• Plot: On September 9, 1945, the deadliest war the world has ever known formally came to an end. Four months earlier, the Third Reich had suffered its final, crushing defeat. On the horizon stood a new type of conflict the Cold War.; ; THE LAST DAYS OF WORLD WAR II presents three stellar documentaries from THE HISTORY CHANNEL® that examine the heady period leading toward victory and the stunning revelations of its complex aftermath. From decisive ground battles and the last Allied ship sunk by the Nazis, to the drama of the Nuremberg trials and analysis of the unlikely alliance of the Axis powers, first-hand footage and expert commentary from scholars and eyewitnesses propel this sweeping overview of one of modern history s darkest, most pivotal chapters.
• Cast: Bill Ratner, Konstantin Akinsha, Kenneth Alford, Tom Allen, Stephen Ambrose, Hans Amtmann, Irina Antonova, Bruce Ashcroft, Vic Bilek, Belton Cooper, Forrest Dixon, Moisey Dubinsky, Walter Farmer, Joel H. Fisher, Si Frumkin, Klaus Goldmann, David Golubitsky, Helmet Gunther, Ilfried Harder, John Iorio, August Kageneck, John Keegan, Harry Kinnard, Siegfried Knappe, Grigori Kozlov, Michael Neufeld, Lynn Nicholas, Paul H. Nitze, Norman Polmar, Iosif Saksonov, Pavel Sheykhet, Paul Shuster, Robert Strobell, Ben Swearingen, Bernard Taper, Angela Thompson, Gerhard Weinberg, Alfred Witte, Artur Axmann, Omar N. Bradley, Eva Braun, Clementine Churchill, Winston Churchill, Karl Dönitz, Anthony Eden, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Hans Frank, Major Freidel, Wilhelm Frick, Hans Fritzsche, Walther Funk, Josef Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler, Harry Hopkins, Robert Jackson, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Toshikazu Kase, Wilhelm Keitel, Hans Kinzel, Geoffrey Lawrence, William D. Leahy, Douglas MacArthur, George C. Marshall, Vyacheslav Molotov, Bernard L. Montgomery, Benito Mussolini, Katauo Okazaki, George S. Patton, Clara Petacci, Colonel Pollek, Erich Raeder, Erwin Rommel, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Alfred Rosenberg, Fritz Sauckel, Hjalmar Schacht, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Mamoru Shigemitsu, Carl Spaatz, Albert Speer, Joseph Stalin, Julius Streicher, Richard K. Sutherland, Harry S. Truman, Yoshijiro Umezu, Wernher von Braun, Konstantin von Neurath, Franz von Papen, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Baldur von Schirach, Gerhard Wagner, Georgi Zhukov, J. Lee Thompson
• Director: J. Lee Thompson
• Runtime: 4:39
• Company: A&E Television Networks, History Channel
• Media Format: Series