Overview

The dramatic inside story of 6 November 1956, the final day of the Suez Crisis. A day that changed Britain forever. Exactly as it happened - hour by hour, minute by minute.

Created by Chris Holt

Network

• Channel 4

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• 

  Saskia Reeves

  Narrator (voice)

  2 eps

• 

  Alan McKenna

  Anthony Eden

  2 eps

• Tez Ilyas

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  2 eps

• John Statham

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  2 eps

• 

Themes

• middle east
• egypt
• cold war
• british empire
• invasion
• conflict
• britain
• colonialism
• strategy
• military
• diplomacy
• geopolitics

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