Discover the most daring covert operations, ingenious spy gadgets and cunning military deceptions that forever changed the course of history... Painstakingly researched with previously classified footage from private sources and government archives all over the world. SECRETS OF WAR exposes the real stories of the 20th century's greatest conflicts! 1. WWI: Germany's secret gambles As the Armies of World War One struggled under a barrage of terrifying weapons, the German governmet turned to covert operations to break the stalemate. Sabotage, biological weapons and top-secret communications ushered in a new era of warefare... 2. Cold War: The Strangelove Factor How close did the superpowers actually come to a nuclear holocust? New information on brutal power struggles behind the Iron Curtain, the Cuban missile crisis and the terrifying "Doomsday Machine" built to end the world.

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Secrets of War - Bio & Nuclear Warfare (1998)

Unrated

War/Documentary · 1h 44m · 11/7/2000

Description

Release Country

United States

Barcode

014381877724

Release Date

11/7/2000

Media Type

TV Series

Audio

English

Studio

Image Entertainment

Video Format

NTSC

Aspect Ratio

1.33:1

Discs

Cast

Charlton Heston

Narrator (33 episodes, 1998-2002)

Thomas B. Allen

Himself - Co-Author 'Spy Book' (8 episodes)

Paul Beaver

Historian / ... (6 episodes)

Keith Melton

Himself - Author 'The Ultimate Spy Book' / ... (6 episodes)

Mark Seaman

Himself - Author 'The Bravest of the Brave' / ... (5 episodes)

Anthony Cave Brown

Himself - Author 'Bodyguard of Lies' (4 episodes, 1998)

Harry Hinsley

Himself - Signals Analyst, Bletchley Park (4 episodes, 1998)

Norman Polmar

Himself - Co-Author 'Spy Book' (4 episodes)

Paul Kemp

Naval Historian & Author 'Underwater Warriors' / ... (4 episodes)

M.R.D. Foot

Himself - Author 'S.O.E' (3 episodes, 1998)

Terry Charman

Himself - Historian, Imperial War Museum / ... (3 episodes)

Tim Naftali

Himself - Author 'One Hell of a Gamble' (3 episodes)

Peter Kornbluh

Himself - Author 'Bay of Pigs Declassified' / ... (3 episodes)

David Kahn

Himself - Historian, Author 'The Codebreakers' (3 episodes)

Winslow Wheeler

Himself - Assistant Director General Accounting Office / ... (3 episodes, 1998)

Bradley Smith

Himself - Author / ... (2 episodes)

Robert McNamara

Himself - U.S. Secretery of Defence, 1961-1968 (2 episodes, 2001)

Kenneth Pollack

Himself - Military Analyst, Wash. Inst. Near East Policy (2 episodes)

Fred I. Greenstein

Himself - Author 'The Hidden-Hand Presidency' / ... (2 episodes)

Tom Shachtman

Himself - Author 'The Phony War' (2 episodes)

John Waller

Author 'The Unseen War in Europe' / ... (2 episodes)

Vladislav Zubok

Himself - Co-Author 'Inside the Kremlin's Cold War' (2 episodes)

Rupert Allason

Himself - Author 'Thread of Deceit' (2 episodes)

Michael Berenbaum

Himself - Holocaust Scholar / ... (2 episodes)

Dan Quayle

Himself - Former U.S. Vice-President / ... (2 episodes, 1998)

Philip Brenner

Himself - Author 'From Confrontation to Negotation' / ... (2 episodes, 2001)

James Baker III

Himself - Former Secretary of State 1988-92 / ... (2 episodes, 1998)

Paul Paillole

Himself - Colonel 'Ret.' French Intelligence / ... (2 episodes)

Richard H. Shultz

Himself - Author 'the Secret War Against Hanoi' / ... (2 episodes, 2001)

Henry Kissinger

Himself - Former Secretary of State (2 episodes, 2002)

Bernard E. Trainor

Himself - Author 'The General's War' / ... (2 episodes, 1998)

James Schlesinger

Himself - Director of the CIA - 1973 / ... (2 episodes)

Douglas Waller

Himself - Author 'The Commandos' (2 episodes)

Kenneth Timmerman

Himself - Author 'The Death Lobby' (2 episodes)

John Nowers

Himelf - Director, Royal Engineers Museum / ... (2 episodes)

David Fisher

Himself - Author 'The War Magician' (2 episodes, 1998)

Christopher Andrew

Himself - Author 'For the President's Eyes Only' / ... (2 episodes)

Mark Urban

Himself - Author 'UK Eyes Alpha' (2 episodes)

David Alan Johnson

Himself - Author 'Germany's Spies and Saboteurs' (2 episodes)

Crew

Michael Kase

Director

J.V. Martin

Director

Michael B. Christy

Writer

J.V. Martin

Writer

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