The War That Never Ends (1991)

5.0/10 • 70 min • Drama History Documentary

Overview

The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato, and others.

Cast

John Bennett

Corcyran Representative

David Calder

Cleon

Oliver Ford Davies

Melian Representative

Don Henderson

Socrates

Jonathan Hyde

Corinthian Representative

Andrew Keir

Archidamus

Sara Kestelman

Presenter (voice)

Ben Kingsley

Pericles

Michael Kitchen

2nd Athenian Representative

Alec McCowen

Thucydides

Stephen Moore

1st Athenian Representative

Nathaniel Parker

Alcibiades

Bob Peck

Nicias

Ronald Pickup

Diodotus

Norman Rodway

Spartan General

Clive Swift

Athenagoras

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