''Ike'', also known as ''Ike: The War Years'', is a 1979

television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ...

miniseries about the life of Dwight D. Eisenhower, mostly focusing on his time as Supreme Commander in Europe during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

. The

screenplay ''ScreenPlay'' is a television drama anthology series broadcast on BBC2 between 9 July 1986 and 27 October 1993. Background After single-play anthology series went off the air, the BBC introduced several showcases for made-for-television, f ...

, written by Melville Shavelson, was based on Kay Summersby's 1948 memoir ''Eisenhower Was My Boss'' and her 1975 autobiography, ''Past Forgetting: My Love Affair''. Directed by Boris Sagal and Melville Shavelson, the production starred Robert Duvall as Eisenhower and

Lee Remick Lee Ann Remick (December 14, 1935 – July 2, 1991) was an American actress and singer. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the film '' Days of Wine and Roses'' (1962), and for the 1966 Tony Award for Best Actress ...

as Kay Summersby.

Film editor Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film which increasingly involves the use of digital technology. The film edit ...

s John Woodcock and Bill Lenny won an

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for their work and the series garnered five Emmy Award nominations.

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* 1970s American television miniseries Television series produced at Pinewood Studios Television series set in the 1940s American World War II films Cultural depictions of Dwight D. Eisenhower Cultural depictions of Franklin D. Roosevelt Cultural depictions of George S. Patton Cultural depictions of Charles de Gaulle Cultural depictions of Winston Churchill Films directed by Boris Sagal {{WWII-film-stub