GRIPPING TRAILER FOR BBC EPIC WW2 SERIES WORLD ON FIRE WITH JONAH HAUER KING, SEAN BEAN, LESLEY MANVILLE, HELEN HUNT

      'WORLD ON FIRE' TRAILER 

FOR NEW BBC WW2 TV SERIES

Beside the info that Sky will air its Catherine the Great series from October 3rd (October 21st on HBO), there is another epic treat for you today: first

World on Fire will air sometime this Autumn on BBC One

trailer for BBC One's World War II series WORLD ON FIRE which will air its seven episodes sometime this Autumn and then also on Masterpiece in

Jonah Hauer King takes the lead male role in the series

USA. The emotionally gripping drama will star Jonah Hauer King, Sean Bean, Lesley Manville, Blake Harrison,  Arthur Darvill, Brian J.

The story of the series is set in four different nations

Smith, Max Riemelt, and Helen Hunt. From the siege of Warsaw, to Dunkirk, the fall of Paris and the battle of Britain, the series will be covering the first year of the war spanning four different nations.

WORLD ON FIRE TELLS 
the hidden human stories within the big historical events we think we know. From Harry, a young English translator in Warsaw caught up in negotiations

Sean Bean also stars in the new World War II series

with the Nazis and trying to smuggle his Polish lover Kasia out of the country, to Lois, the girl who is waiting for him at home, a young Mancunian factory

Lesley Manville is no stranger to period set drama series!

worker who will come to take all the opportunities the war can offer to live a different kind of life. To Nancy, a female US war correspondent who can’t find

Julia Brown also stars in the series next to Hauer King

peace unless her life is at risk, to the Rossler family in Berlin, worried for their soldier son and willing to do anything to protect their disabled daughter from the attentions of the ruling Nazi regime. These are the stories of the ordinary

The series covers only the first year of the war

people who shaped our world. Stories of loyalty and brutality, courage and fear, hopes, stories of love and loss, hopes and dreams forged in extraordinary times.