1982

Inside the Third Reich
ABC miniseries
Marvin J. Chomsky, director
John C. Chulay, first assistant director

The autobiography of Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler's personal architect, supplied Chomsky with his World War II follow-up to Holocaust (1978) with another look at the intimacies behind the war machine that turned the world upside-down at midcentury. Again, Chomsky received the best director Emmy, guiding a sterling cast in this five-hour epic headed by Dutch actor Rutger Hauer as Speer and featuring John Gieldgud, Trevor Howard, Blythe Danner, Maria Schell, Ian Holm, Derek Jacobi, Robert Vaughn, Elke Sommer, Randy Quaid and Viveca Lindfors.