The Road to War (1989) | Full Cast

Charles Wheeler

Self - Narrator

Joachim Fest

Self - Biographer of Hitler

Chihiro Hosoya

Self - International University, Niigata

Waldo Heinrichs

Self - Author 'Threshold of War'

Hans von Herwarth

Self - German Army in Poland, 1939

Ikuhiko Hata

Self - Professor, Takushoku University

James Roosevelt

Self - Son of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Eric Sevareid

Self - CBS News Correspondent

Ted Willis

Self - 1930s Labour Youth Movement

Stéphane Grappelli

Self

Adolf Galland

Self - German Air Force in France, 1940

Vittorio Mussolini

Self

Valentin Berezhkov

Self - Soviet Foreign Office

William L. Shirer

Self - CBS Correspondant, Poland 1939

Victor Warrender

Self - War Officer, 1935-1940

Alec Douglas-Home

Self - P.P.S. to Neville Chamberlain 1937-1940

Reinhard Spitzy

Self - Secretary to Foreign Minister 1936-1939

Mario Vigna

Self - Member of Communist Party, Ravenna

Minoru Genda

Self - Air Staff Officer, Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941

Erich Kuby

German Army in Russia, 1941

Lev Kopelev

Self - Soviet Writer

Edward Arie

Self

Ivan Lakayev

Self - Air Force General

Hisashi Yamanaka

Self - Schoolboy in Japan, 1930s

J.A. Graf von Kielmannsegg

German Army in Russia, 1941

George Strauss

Self - Labour M.P. Lambeth, 1930s

Jerzy Waldorff

Self - Journalist in Warsaw, 1939

Karl Otto Braun

Self

Jean Daladier

Self - Son of Edouard Daladier

Jun Etoh

Self - Professor, Tokyo Kyogo University

Elena Tania

Self

Mario Banzo

Self

Margarete Buber-Neumann

Self - German Communist

Werner Koeppen

Self - Nazi Stormtrooper

Claude Pepper

Self - Senator, Democrat, Florida, 1936-1951

Teresa Cieplechowicz

Self

Franciszek Bartoszak

Self - Westerplatte Garrison 1939

Robert Nathan

Self - New Deal Economist, 1933-1936

Peter Wilkinson

Self - British Military Delegation to Poland, 1939

Vladimir Tikhonov

Self - Historian

Nance Satterthwaite

Self - Mass Observation, 1938-1940

Ivan Kakotkin

Self - Signals Unit

Alexandr Kupshchinov

Self

Giorgio Pisano

Self - Senator, Member of Fascist Youth

Renzo De Felice

Self - Professor, University of Rome

Jules Champougny

Self

Mike Masaoka

Self - Schoolboy in Utah, 1920s

Correlli Barnett

Self - Author, 'The Collapse of British Power'

Vladimir Semyonov

Self - Soviet Foreign Office

Ingeborg Swinney

Self

Sergio Bernacconi

Self

Waclaw Jedrzejewisz

Polish Government Official, 1939

Tanya Litvinova

Self

Shiro Azuma

Self - Imperial Japanese Army, Nanking, 1937

Arthur Anders

Self - Commander, USS Panay, 1937

John Service

Self - US Foreign Service, China, 1933-1945

Waclawa Kedierska

Self

Daisy Schlitter

Self

Bill Deedes

Self - Reporter, Daily Telegraph 1937-1939

Con O'Neill

Self - Diplomatic Service 1936-1939

Ron Welsh

Self - Shadow Factory Engineer 1938

Bernard Smith

Self - Rover Shadow Factory 1936

Marie Helene Biesmans

Self

Andrzej Garlicki

Self - Warsaw University

Vittorio Foa

Self - Senator, Political Prisoner, 1934-43

Elizabeta Tukhachevskava

Self

Stanislawa Babace

Self

Etienne de Crouy-Chanel

Self

Alexander Vetrov

8th Mechanised Brigade

Jack Pachosa

Self - Grand Coulee Dam Worker, 1933

Hannah Blizzard

Self - Resident Weoley Castle Estate since 1933

Piotr Kieselov

Self - Party Activist

Marjorie Leaf

Self - Secretary, Neville Chamberlain's Private Office

Lucie Janser

Self

Eberhard Jäckel

Self - Author 'Hitler's World View'

Jean Daridan

Self - French Foreign Ministry

Stanley Tress

Self - Visitor, Empire Exhibition, 1924

Robert Frank

Self - University of Nanterre

Jean-Baptiste Duroselle

Self - Emeritus Professor, University of the Sorbonne

Josef Felder

Self - Socialist Member of Reichstag 1932-1933

Norberto Bobbio

Self - Professor

Maurice Vaisse

Self - University of Reims

Marie Royer

Self

Henryka Skowyra

Self

Kyuroku Abe

Self - Platoon Commander, Kwantung Army, 1937

Eugenio Chiaradia

Self

Roasaria Quartarara

Self

Giuseppe Frediani

Self - Fascist Party Leader, Province of Verona

Stanley Pachosa

Self - Grand Coulee Dam Worker, 1933

Wilhelm Meger

Self

Ugo Peretti

Self - Founder Member of Fascist Party, Milan

Hans Eggebrecht

Self

Richard Moore

Self - America First, 1941

Joel David

Self - Lieutenant, French Army Reserve

Peter Masefield

Self - Journalist, 'The Aeroplane', 1937-1943

Carlo Perrone Capano

Self - Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Tommaso Francesconi

Self

Klaus Hildebrand

Self - Bonn University

Herbert Friedrichs

Naval High Command 1937-1938

Alexei Shatirin

Self

Seiichi Chino

Self - Settler in Manchuria, 1930s

Tadashi Katakura

Self - Kwantung Army Officer, 1931

Maurice Gardet

Self

Filippo Greco

Self - Italian Royal Air Force

William Leuchtenburg

Self - Professor, University of North Carolina

Ian Jacob

Self - Committee of Imperial Defence 1938

Egidio Ortona

Self - Ambassador, Diplomatic Service

Jean Delmas

Self

Noah Adair

Self - Captain, Lieutenant, USS Kearney, 1941

Zofia Sulik

Self

Ruth Sarles Benedict

Self - U.S. Peace Movement, 1930s

Julian Ridsdale

Self - Royal Norfolk Regiment 1935-1945

Guenther Roos

Self - Hitler Youth

Joseph Stalin

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Daisy D'Ora

Self

Edda Mussolini

Self

Édouard Daladier

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Stanley Baldwin

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Paul Schmidt

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Renzo Lodoli

Self

Quentin Rowlands

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Josephine Baker

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John F. Kennedy

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V.I. Lenin

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Heinrich Himmler

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King George VI

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Francisco Franco

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Hermann Göring

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Edward Elgar

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King George V

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Woodrow Wilson

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Clementine Churchill

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Joachim von Ribbentrop

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