Cold War Soldiers of God (Season 1, Episode 20)
TV Episode | 47 min | Documentary, History

Cold War

Soldiers of God (Season 1, Episode 20)

TV Episode | 47 min | Documentary, History

Afghanistan is a brutal war that costs the lives of almost 15,000 Soviet conscripts and an estimated one million Afghans. "It wasthe Soviet Union's Vietnam syndrome," says Soviet aide Anatoly Chernyaev.

Director

Tessa Coombs

Producer

Ken Kirby

Editor

Alex Nikolic-Dunlop

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Edit Released

Updated Dec 31, 1998

Release date

1998 (United States)

Awards

Series awards

2 wins & 2 nominations

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40 cast members

Name	Known for
Kenneth Branagh Self - Narrator (voice) Self - Narrator (voice) See fewer	Henry V (1989)
Frank Anderson Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Artyom Borovik Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Karen Brutents Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Zbigniew Brzezinski Self Self See fewer	This Hour Has Seven Days (1964)
George Bush Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	41 (II) (2012)
Jimmy Carter Self (as President Jimmy Carter) Self (as President Jimmy Carter) See fewer	The American President (2000)
Anatoly Cherniayev Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Charles Cogan Self Self See fewer	Our Own Private Bin Laden (2006)
Charles Dunbar Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Mikhail Gorbachev Self Self See fewer	Meeting Gorbachev (2018)
Sahar Gul Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Mohammed Hanif Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Abdul Rashid Jalili Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Elie Krakowski Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Vladimir Kryuchkov Self (as Gen. Vladimir Kruichkov) Self (as Gen. Vladimir Kruichkov) See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Majnoon Self Self See fewer	Germany's Next Topmodel (2006)
Ahmad Shah Massoud Self (as Ahmed Shah Massoud) Self (as Ahmed Shah Massoud) See fewer	Massoud, the Afghan (1998)
Vasili Safronchuk Self (as Vasily Safronchuk) Self (as Vasily Safronchuk) See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Bibi Sardara Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Gulab Shah Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Valentin Varennikov Self (as Gen. Valentin Varennikov) Self (as Gen. Valentin Varennikov) See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Caspar Weinberger Self Self See fewer	Dateline (1984)
Sofia Zhuravleva Self Self See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Hafizullah Amin Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer
Yuri Andropov Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Guest from the Island of Freedom (1963)
Leonid Brezhnev Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Guest from the Island of Freedom (1963)
Warren Burger Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	The Magical World of Disney (1954)
Diego Cordovez Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer
Anatoli Dobrynin Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Cold War (1998)
Andrei Gromyko Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Dead Man's Letters (1986)
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Afghanistan: The Wounded Land (2020)
Babrak Karmal Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Afghanistan pourquoi? (1983)
Mohammad Najibullah Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Vremya (1968)
Nancy Reagan Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Hellcats of the Navy (1957)
Ronald Reagan Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Kings Row (1942)
Eduard Shevardnadze Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Tbilisuri Love Story (2009)
George Shultz Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	The League
Nur Muhammed Taraki Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	In the Shadow of the Caravans (1979)
Muhammed Zia-ul-Haq Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer