Director
Antonia Benedek
DIRECTOR
Pippa Holloway
Robert Marshall
Tilman Remme
John Hayes Fisher
Tony Tyley
Michael Wadding
Jonathan Dent
Chris Mohr
Catrine Clay
Neil Cameron
Allan Francovich
Jonathan Lewis
Jonathan Gili
Jonathan Hacker
David Stewart
Chris Wilson
Margaret Heffernan
Jon Bentley
Derek Towers
Peter Batty
William Cran
James Hayes
Tim Robinson
Ian Potts
Michael Coyle
Christopher Graham
Jane Thynne
David F. Turnbull
Tristram Powell
Nikki Stockley
Jane Treays
Brynmor Williams
Russell England
John Triffitt
Roy Davies
Candida Pryce-Jones
James Burge
Paul Mitchell
Ashok Prasad
John Edginton
Jonathan Miller
John Percival
Paul Elston
Andrew Thompson
Martina Balazova
Amir Amirani
Kate Bartlett
Henry Chancellor
Jonathan Hassid
Harry Marshall
Melanie Archer
William Lyons
Ed Stobart
Sam Roberts
Sam Starbuck
Andrew Williams
Christopher Rowley
Craig Collinson
Wain Fimeri
Sean Smith
Peter Spry-Leverton
Matthew Thomason
Natalie Maynes
Bernadette McDaid
Paul Stekler
Paul Bradshaw
Phil Grabsky
John Hayes
Deborah Perkin
Jonathan Stamp
Richard Trayler-Smith
Stars (in credits order)
Michael Praed
Self - Narrator
Peter France
Self - Presenter
Christopher Andrew
Self - Reporter
John Tusa
Simon Winchester
Sean Barrett
David Drew
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Self - British wartime intelligence
Ian Holm
Norman Stone
Self
David Cannadine
Self - Historian
Bernard Clark
Samuel West
Charles Wheeler
Bernard Hill
Narrator
Simon Haslett
Miranda Green
Self - Author
Michael Palin
Rochus Misch
Hugh Astor
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Herbert Döhring
Andrew Sachs
Dr. Eduard Bloch
Peter Ibbotson
John Bowman
Robert Harris
David Starkey
Peter Francis
Archimedes Patti
John Rowe
Robert McNamara
Sergei Khrushchev
Oleg Troyanovski
Dean Rusk
Brian Cox
Stephen Badsey
Saul David
Ian Kershaw
Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven
Bill Paterson
Paul Reed
Prince Charles
Vanessa Collingridge
Henry Lincoln
Christopher Frayling
Michael Cockerell
Martin Shaw
Oscar Wilde
John Michie
Dan Cruickshank
Paul Rhys
Cicero
Julian Richards
Richard Hammond
Kate Williams
Jeff Guinn
Bob Brier
Bettany Hughes
Chris Dyer
Allen Levy
Self - Director, London Toy & Model Museum (segment "British and Guaranteed")
Elena Rzhenskaya
Self - 79th Smersh Unit
Bill Thomas
The False-Eye Maker
Barry Cunliffe
Alan Shanks
Self - MI5, Camp 020, 1940-45
John Aldridge
Self - Bomber Command, 1944-45
Hermann Völck
Self - Sergeant Fallschirmjäger
John Parkinson
Joanna David
Queen Victoria
Owen Teale
Erucius
Jerzy Gralek
Stalin
Patrick Ottaway
Self - Archaeologist
David Harper
Self - Noor Inayat Khan's nephew
Barry Tashian
Self - The Remains - support band
Justin Blake
Buddy Barrow
Self - Clyde's nephew
Ian McNaught
Self - QE2, Captain
Anne Batchelor
Self - Family Historian (segment "A Batchelor's Delight")
Vladimir Gvozd
Self - Chief of Reconnaissance, 3rd Shock Army
Charlotte Mitchell
The Pure-Finder
Helen Elphick
Frances Shanks
Max Hastings
Self - Author, 'Bomber Command'
Bernd Bosshammer
Edward S. Kamuda
Self - President, Titanic Historical Society
David Swift
ACTOR
Anthony Sattin
Self - Author & Critic
Mark McGann
Sextus Roscius
Jerrold Post
Self - former CIA profiler
Krzysztof Dracz
Beria
Robert Philpott
Claire Harper
Self - Noor Inayat Khan's sister
Simon James
Self - University of Leicester
Rhea Leen Linder
Self - Bonnie's niece
Robert Spencer
Self - Expert on Early Music (segment "A Batchelor's Delight")
David Milligan
The Coster-Lad
Martin Elphick
Pat McCallum
Self - MI5 Registry, 1940-45
Martin Middlebrook
Self - Aviation Historian
Friedrich Merk
Self - Medical Officer, Fallschirmjäger
Paul Louden-Brown
Self - Historian, White Star Line
Christopher Cazenove
Nicole Douek
Self - Egyptologist, University of London
Penny Downie
Caecilia
Richard Overy
Self - professor in history
Miroslaw Neinert
Khrushchev
M.R.D. Foot
Self - historian of Special Operations Executive
Vivien Swan
Self - Pottery Expert
Tony Barrow
Self - The Beatles' press officer 1962-1966
John Neal Phillips
William Sidney
Self (segment "A Batchelor's Delight")
Sara Stephens
Mary, A Coster-Girl
Jill Grainger
Reg Davey
Self - 514 Squadron, Bomber Command
Gerhart Schirmer
Self - Captain, Fallschirmjäger
Sid Sedunary
Kenneth Gray
Antony Byrne
Magnus
Andrzej Szopa
Molotov
Sarah Helm
Self - author of 'A Life of Secrets'
Barry Hood
Self - amateur film-maker
Peter Hill
Esther Weiser
Self - Blanche's friend
Jakob Lindberg
Self - Lute Player (segment "A Batchelor's Delight")
James Clarkson
The Microscope Exhibitor
Peter Little
Anthony Simkins
Self - Deputy Director General, MI5, 1965-71
Bruno Rupp
Self - German Night Fighter Pilot
Alfred Gotts
Self - Bombardier, Royal Artillery
Ian Leslie
Andrew Greenough
Capito
Krzysztof Krupinski
Malenkov
Hidayat Inayat Khan
Self - Noor Inayat Khan's brother
Janet Montgomery
Self - Archaeological Scientist
Andrew Birley
Self - The Vindolanda Trust
Jim Knight
Self - author
Gabrielle Hamilton
The New-Milk Seller
Lindsay Ainsworth
Ronnie Reed
Self - MI5 Radio Operator, 1940
Ludwig Schwörer
Harry Evans
Self - 550 quadron, Bomber Command
Bob Burr
Gerard Horan
Country gent
Ilja Zmiejew
Bulganin
Elizabeth Small
Self - former Special Operations Executive employee
Andrew Morrison
Self - Curator
Maureen Cleave
Self - journalist
Patricia Birley
Don Raspante
Self - gun collector
Chris Adamson
The Queen's Ratcatcher
Peter Ainsworth Jr.
Inga Haag
Self - German Intelligence - Abwehr, 1939-42
Tami Davis Biddle
Self - Military Historian
Horace Buswell
Self - Lance Corporal, Royal Engineers
Muffet Brown
Self - great-grand daughter of Molly Brown
Tom Smith
Tiro
Waldemar Blaszczyk
Vasily
Bob Maloubier
Self - former Special Operations Executive agent
Lindsay Allason-Jones
Self Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle
Robin Birley
Chris Hutchins
Marvelle Feller
Self - eyewitness
Gareth Williams
The Street Clown
John Rossetti
Michael Howard
Self - Emeritus Professor of History, Oxford
Günter Schutze
Self - Radio Operator, Fallschirmjäger
Henry Probert
Self - Former Director, Air Historical Branch
Steven Biel
Christopher Good
Judge
Marta Król
Svetlana
Gaston Collin
Charlotte A. Roberts
Self - Osteoarchaeologist
Tony Bramwell
Self - The Beatles' road manager 1962-1970
Alan Bowman
Self - University of Oxford
Louise Paterson
Kate Rossetti
Joyce Hall
Self - MI5, Camp 020, 1941-45
Walt Rostow
Self - US Enemy Objectives Unit
Hugh Levien
Self - Lieutenant, The Parachute Regiment
Gordon Bussey
Self - Marconi Historian
Richard Ridings
Elder Sextus
Piotr Grabowski
Kaplar
Anthony Birley
Henri Diacono
Tony Newman
Self - Sounds Incorporated - support band
Sergei Kondrashev
Self - General, Soviet intelligence 1944-1992
Sarah Rockliff
Peggy Harmer
Self - BIA (MI5 sub-section), 1941-43
Roland Byers
Self - 8th US Army Air Force
Alasdair Truett
Michael Manser
Self - great-grand nephew of J. Bruce Ismay
Ian Porter
Walter C. Langer
Dorota Liliental
Polina Molotov
Fabien Parfait
Chrysogonus
Joey Ansah
Emperor Geta
Dick Thomas
John Rockliff
Friedrich Lutz
Peter Padfield
Self - Naval Historian
Martin McDougall
'Wild' Bill Donovan
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Self - Historical Consultant
Val Forsyth
Ivor Davis
Ernst Schenk
Self - Dr.
Susan Hamilton
Self - Institute of Archaeology UCL
Sarah Bishop
Self - Assistant to Tommy Harris, MI5, 1941-45
Christl Dehm
Karen Kamuda
Ken Bones
Otto Strasser
Jonathan Hartley
Larry Kane
Self - journalist, broadcaster
L.J. Hinton
Self - Ted's son
Artur Axmann
Self - leader of the Hitler Youth
Johanna Bessler
Ray Singer
Alan 'Boots' Holmes
Harrison Hamer
Self - Frank Hamer's Great Nephew
Sergei Mironenko
Self - Dr., director, State Archive, Moscow
Ken Holmes Jr.
Self - Dallas historian
Matthew Andrews
Linge
Wesley Trammel
Reenactment
David Royle
Günsche
Jessica Ewy
Albert Welling
Baur
Kristi Rowan
Gary Whelan
Interrogator
Chad Ford
Buck Barrow
Richard Moody
Cellmate
Todd Manley
Peter Ross-Murray
Prison Guard
Hevin Hampton
W.D. Jones
Brett Hecksher
Jodie Moore
Joseph Ingargiola
Vernon Reeves
Nathaniel Holt
Ted Rogers
Tim Taylor
Frank Hamer
Louis Statman
Marc Isaacs
Marina Warner
Georges Sanègre
Self - Butler
Michael Bloch
Self - Author, 'The Duke of Windsor's War'
Maitre Suzanne Blum
Self - Windsor Solicitor
Robert Rhodes James
Gubby Allen
Self - Member of Bodyline Tour
Asa Briggs
Jean Borotra
Self - Former Tennis Champion
Keith Thomas
Malcolm Muggeridge
Arthur Bryant
Alan Bullock
Anthony Parsons
William Shawcross
Iona Opie
Mark Jones
Roy Foster
Aubrey Burl
Margaret O'Callaghan
John Woodvine
Patricia Morison
Irving Allen
Jeremy Black
Mark Bailey
Herbert Bregstein
David Suchet
Peter Pacey
Peter Lely
Bert Parnaby
Oliver Cromwell
Phillip Knightley
Blair Worden
Self - Interviewee
Christopher Hill
Gabriel Ronay
Eric Ives
Frances Barber
Chris Moir
William Waddell
Anna Larina
Self - Widow of Nikolai Bukharin
Martin Fido
Engelsina Cheshkova
Arkadi Vaksberg
Self - Writer
Alec Nove
Self - Glasgow University
Anatoli Rybakov
Anthony Kemp-Welch
Self - Nottingham University
Judith Walkowitz
Fitzroy McLean
Dimitri A. Wolkogonow
Self - Stalin Biographer
Bryan Benjamin
Susannah York
Blain Fairman
Harry Truman
Brian Greene
Secretary of State, James Byrnes
Jonathan Aitken
Self - Aide to Selwyn Lloyd, 1962-1966
Enoch Powell
Self - Health Minister, 1960-1963
Jeremy Thorpe
Peter Carlisle
Secretary of War, Henry Stimson
Harold Watkinson
Self - Defence Minister, 1959-1962
Bill Deedes
Self - Information Minister, 1962-1964
Alexander Macmillan
Self - Harold Macmillan's Grandson
Quintin Hogg
Self - Macmillan Cabinet Minister
Charles Hill
Self - Housing Minister, 1961-1962
David Eccles
Self - Education Minister, 1959-1962
Alistair Horne
Self - Macmillan's Official Biographer
James Callaghan
Michael Leifer
Ralph Smith
Jim Mutimer
Douglas Greensmith
Peter Dunn
Cyril Jervis
J.P. Cross
Peter Ustinov
Michael Culver
Roger Bacon
Chloe Sirene
Janet Cummings
Robin Ellis
Kenneth Griffith
Fidel Castro
Alexander Haig
Theodore Sorensen
Francis Pym
Bill Bailey
Cecil Parkinson
Marita Lorenz
John Nott
Paul H. Nitze
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Caspar Weinberger
Leopoldo Galtieri
Anatoli Dobrynin
Lucius Cervantos
Dick Walters
Basilio Lami Dozo
Lee Scott
Terence Lewin
Aleksei Adzhubei
Richard Bissell
Thomas Enders
Gustavo Figueroa
Roberto Moya
John Service
Nicholas Henderson
Frank Wilkinson
Roger Hillsman
James Rentschler
Charles Rice
Paul McCarty
Arthur Kinoy
Nicanor Costa Mendez
Ruth Goldberg
Anatoli Gribkov
Dorota Kwiatkowska
Ian Paisley
Laurence McKeown
John Hume
Garret Fitzgerald
Bob Peck
Ronald Hutton
Lothar Hobelt
Self - University of Vienna
Paul Foot
Iljas Hadzibegovic
Self - Sarajevo University
Bill Short
Gordon Brook-Shepherd
Self - Author, 'Royal Sunset'
José Álvarez Junco
Sergeji Princip
Mustafa Imamovic
Donald Hodge
Self - Royal West Kent Regiment 1914-1918
Stephen Haliczer
Self - Northern University of Illinois
Henry Kamen
Self - Higher Council for Scientific Research, Barcelona
Peter Hall
Self - Theatre Director
Owen Dudley Edwards
Self - Edinburgh University
Lady Alice Douglas
Self - Great-grandniece of Lord Alfred Douglas
Isobel Murray
Self - Aberdeen University
Tadashi Nakajima
Merlin Holland
Self - Grandson of Oscar Wilde
Fujio Hayashi
Alan Sinfield
Self - Sussex University
Mick Bensted
Hachiro Hosokawa
Janet Nelson
Jesse Byock
That Thien Ton
Martin Biddle
Robert Fentriss
Dagny Kristiansdottir
Bill Simmons
Frank Manson
Masaji Kobayashi
Morimasa Yunokawa
Ryokichi Kataoka
Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle
Bui Diem
Andrew Wawn
Henry Kissinger
Martin Kemp
Self - Professor of Art History, Oxford University
Kirsty Wark
Philip J. Corso
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Claire Corbu
Self - Villager, Rennes-le-Château
Michael Dearmond
Shu Ping Wa
Paul Cole
Irene Mandra
Yuri Klimovitch
Pavel Fironov
Dimitri Volkogonov
Robert McCrum
Self - Literary Editor, The Observer
Walker Mahurin
Roland Parks
Hal Fischer
Francis Tusa
Gérard de Sède
Self - Author, The Gold of Rennes
Pierre Jarnac
Self - Author, The Archives of the Treasure of Rennes-le-Château
Hank Buttleman
John Hamill
Self - Librarian & Curator, United Grand Lodge of England
Anthony Farrar-Hockley
Kathryn Weatherby
Richard Andrews
Self - Co-Author, The Tomb of God
Paul Schellenberger
Boris Abakumov
Nikolai Petukhov
Victor Bushuyev
Vladimir Malinin
Ihor Dyakon
Gavril Korotkov
Jean-Luc Chaumeil
Self - Writer & Journalist
Valentin Pak
Nikolai Lenets
Antoine Captier
R.R.R. Smith
Nasr Tolba
John Ray
Chris Pelling
Mary Hamer
Dorothy Thompson
Shelley Haley
Chris Haynes
Rasmah Bhupalam
Suljan Yapava
Bhikku Sri Panyavaro
Roy E. Jordaan
Self - Anthropologist
Nigel Barley
Adji Damais
Archie Harrington
John N. Miksic
Harban Singh
S.P. Velusamy
Ali Akbar Raja
Umrao Singh
Avtar Luthera
Bhandari Ram
John Villiers
Sara Kestelman
Gerd Ehrlich
Albrecht Wust
Elenai Predski-Kramer
Lilly Wust
Ulla Schaaf
Nicholas Le Prevost
Thomas More
Lloyd McGuire
Thomas Cromwell
Morris Perry
Thomas Audley
Charles Cork
Boatman
Tim Marlow
Deborah Cavendish
Lady Bowman
John Guy
Rupert Mason
Richard Rich
Vivian Forbes Adam
Sophie Clarke
Anne Boleyn
Andrew Cavendish
Katharine Macmillan
Ruth Sebag-Montefiore
Martyn Beckett
Jack Cripps
Monica Pudney
Arthur Valerian Wellesley
Elizabeth Diana Percy
Diana Tennant
Peggy Cripps
Betty Morton
Fred Dibnah
John Jacob Astor
Margaret Brown
Anthony Beevor
J. Bruce Ismay
Madeleine Astor
Jack Thayer
Benjamin Guggenheim
Georges Alexandre Krins
Brigitte Hamann
Joe Medicine Crow
Jack Phillips
John Law Hume
Roger Bricoux
Anton Joachimsthaler
Lothar Machtan
Nigel Downs
Percy Cornelius Taylor
Harry Hodson
Evgeni Jugashvili
Wallace Hartley
Victor Giglio
Theodore Ronald Brailey
David de Haan
Richard Slotkin
Bill Blake
Jamie Hillier
John Frederick Preston Clarke
Rod Macdonald
Diver historian
John Wesley Woodward
Mike Thomas
Hugh Quarshie
Ben Silverstone
Henry Metelmann
Emma Jacobs
Voice of Christina
Christian LeBlanc
Jane Hackworth-Young
Richard Gibbon
Alan Pearce
Ernesto Arredondo
Irene Christ
Christina Radcliffe
Savas Karakas
Andrew Hurrell
Dave Burrows
Marc Zender
Ben Stuart
Adrian Warburton
Kathryn Reese-Taylor
Michael Bailey
Geoffrey Streatfeild
King George III
Nick Pope
Self - Former MoD UFO Desk Officer
Sean Francis George
Fighting Gaul
Ben Tinniswood
Sir Roger Grenville
James Penniston
Self - US Air Force
Amy Shindler
Queen Charlotte
Charles I. Halt
Barry Miles
Self - Author, In the Sixties
Lady Pamela Hicks
Self - Lord Mountbatten's Daughter
Simon Wolfe
Max Valentiner
Bernard Lovell
Self - Founder, Jodrell Bank Observatory
Vivian Davies
David Crofts
Self - Retired Royal Navy Lt. Commander
Neil Faulkner
Self - retracing the footsteps of Vercingetorix
Stella Tillyard
Mark Corby
Self - retracing the footsteps of Julius Caesar
Pavel Wolf
Roger Willey
Self - Former Police Sergeant
Michael Swiney
Self - Retired Air Commodore
Harriet Jones
Self - Cold War Historian
Andrew Brookes
Self - Aerospace Analyst
Nicholas Cull
Self - Cultural Historian
Geoffrey Smythe
Self - Retired Flight Lieutenant
Andrew Elkerton
John Cannon
Sussanne Groom
David Clarke
Self - Social Historian, Sheffield University
James Chapman
Terry Johnson
Andy Roberts
Self - UFO Historian
Christopher Dobbs
Clifford Waycott
Self - Retired Police Constable
Ted Owen
Self - 1960s Historian
Lukasz Simlat
Ivan Ivanovich
Chris Luck
Gladiator
Lady Glenconner
Tomasz Dedek
Belsky
Jerzy Kryszak
Ivan
Antonia Fraser
Self - Author, 'The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605'
Christopher Warwick
Hugo Vickers
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Self - Professor of the History of the Church, Oxford University
Alison Weir
Jane Rayne
Alice Hogge
Nick Clarke
Mark Nicholls
Self - Author, 'Investigating Gunpowder Plot'
Pauline Croft
Self - Professor of Early Modern History, Royal Holloway University London
Benedykta Ovsiannikova
Self - Head of Explosives Technology, Defence Academy of the UK
David Wilson
Forensic files
Zbigniew Paterak
Boris Godunov
Anne Somerset
Scott Frazer
Lt. Green
Niall Greig Fulton
Lt. Milne
Euan Macnaughton
David Landale
Robert Paterson
George Morgan
Nick Jones
Reconstruction Cast
James Landale
Justin Garner
Richard Dunn
Dylan Matthew
William Millie
John Grattan
Roger Kelly
Mike Scott
Marion Kelly
Clunie Scott
Duncan Rennie
Lucy Worsley
Becky Wright
Young Victoria
Juliet Gardiner
Hannah Greig
Gary Sterne
Roy Strong
Mark Humphries
Ray Tollefson
Joseph E. Persico
Simon Skinner
Steve Zaloga
Robert Foley
Clarissa Campbell Orr
Bella Bathurst
Adrian Lewis
Frank Kennard
Catherine Ellison
Joseph Balkoski
Andrew Bamji
Christina Holstein
Marie Ellison
Jean-Paul de Vries
Jack Burke
Simon Trew
John Plunkett
James Eikner
Ben Kingsley
Tony Curtis
John Benjamin Hickey
Alexandra Churchill
Jeffrey Archer
Angela Rippon
Bernard Ingham
Matt Young
James Cook
Tony Benn
Self - Minister of Technology 1966-70
Joshua Levine
Alex Warren
James McCudden
Simon Weston
Self - Falklands War Veteran
Wayne Hemingway
Self - Designer
Bridget Bezanson
Elizabeth Cook
Jean-Pierre Houdin
Terry Waite
William Freitas
Self - Former Special Boat Service
Vladyslav Marysyk
Self - Former Cunard MD
Artem Milinevskiy
Self - QE2, Regular
Maureen Ryan
Self - QE2, Former Social Director
Pavel Kuzhel
Self - QE2, Accomodation Services Manager
Rita Freed
Self - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Olimpiada Shamrai
Self - QE2, Executive Chef
Natsu Tadano
Self - QE2, Head of Security
Khaila Maharani
Ronald Warwick
Self - QE2, Former Master
Bruno Thomaz
Self - Cunard, President & MD
Leyla Jagiella
Self - QE2, Hotel Manager
Ivan Bilash
Self - QE2, Crew Housekeeper
Robert Haycon-Williams
Self - Former bomb disposal expert
Sheila Tampubolon
Bruce Peter
Self - Maritime Historian
Charles de Bromhead
Mick Mannock
Irving Finkel
Self - British Museum
Costas Emmanuel Synolakis
Self - University of Southern California
Haraldur Sigurdsson
Self - University of Rhode Island
Christos Doumas
Self - Director of Excavations, Akrotiri
Alexander MacGillivray
Self - British School at Athens
Clairy Palyvou
Self - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Floyd McCoy
Self - University of Hawaii
Colin MacDonald
Angela Hobbs
Self - University of Warwick
Michael Jayston
Narrator (1992)
Veronika Hyks
Narrator (1994)
Michael Pennington
Narrator (1996)
Jane van Hool
Narrator (1997)
Paul Brightwell
Narrator (2002)
John Shrapnel
Narrator (2003)
Denis Lawson
Steve Norris
Mary Rose Sailoruncredited
Robin Ellwood
Roman Centurion Guarduncredited
Paul Colman
Executioneruncredited
BOAC Airline Pilotuncredited