The Nightmare Years (1989)
The Nightmare Years (1989)
Plot.
Based on the historical work "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", "The Nightmare Years" tells the story of William Shirer, American journalist who, during his days of correspondence as a foreign press in report in 1930s Germany, had to deal with the growing oppression of the Nazi regime, the increasing censorship of the press, and finally the prospect of World War. In the last days of peace, Shirer also struggles to have his German wife and child escape to the United States.
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Cast & Crew.
Sam Waterston
Bill Shirer
Pip Torrens
Major Radford
Frances Barber
Helga Bauer
Kurtwood Smith
Dr. Josef Goebbels
Péter Benkő
Putzi's Agent
Marthe Keller
Tess Shirer
Bruce Boa
Nick Roosevelt
Ronald Lacey
Emil Luger
Details.
This TV Show Is About.
Miniseries
Wiki.
The Nightmare Years is a book by William L. Shirer, recounting his pre-WW2 years as a journalist in Nazi Germany.
It is also a 1989 American television miniseries directed by Anthony Page. It stars Sam Waterston as Shirer, the American reporter stationed in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. The supporting cast comprises Marthe Keller, Kurtwood Smith, Ronald Pickup, Peter Jeffrey, Walter Gotell and Garrick Hagon.
The miniseries premiered on Turner Network Television on September 17, 1989 as a four-part miniseries and was later released on VHS. As of 2014, there are limited versions of the series on DVD.