About the Show

Season 2 of World on Fire airs Sunday nights at 9/8c on MASTERPIECE from October 15 to November 19, 2023!

World on Fire is an adrenalized, emotionally gripping, and resonant World War II drama that follows the intertwining fates of ordinary people in multiple countries as they grapple with the effects of war on their everyday lives.

Season 2 picks up in late 1940. World on Fire’s return will take viewers from the war-torn streets of Britain deep into Nazi Germany, the resistance within occupied France, and the brutal sands of the North African desert—where troops struggle to adapt to a very different kind of combat.

The stellar ensemble cast includes Academy Award®-nominee Lesley Manville (Magpie Murders, Phantom Thread), Academy Award®-winner Helen Hunt (As Good As it Gets, Mad About You), Sean Bean (Game of Thrones), Jonah Hauer-King (Little Women on MASTERPIECE, The Little Mermaid’s live-action film), Blake Harrison (A Very English Scandal), Julia Brown (Shetland), Zofia Wichlacz (Receptura), Parker Sawyers (P-Valley), Eugenie Derouand (The Advent Calendar), Mark Bonnar (World on Fire, Unforgotten, Shetland, Catastrophe), Gregg Sulkin (Runaways), Ahad Raza Mir (Resident Evil), Miriam Schiweck (Time of Moulting), and many others.

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