The Nightmare Years

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| genre = Docudrama

| based_on = {{based on|The Nightmare Years|William L. Shirer}}

| screenplay = Ian Curteis

| story = Christian Williams
Bob Woodward

| director = Anthony Page

| starring = Sam Waterston
Marthe Keller
Kurtwood Smith

| composer = Vladimir Cosma

| country = United States

| language = English

| num_episodes = 4

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| executive_producer = Boudjemaa Dahmane
Jacques Méthé
Gerald Rafshoon

| producer = Graham Ford

| editor = Keith Palmer

| location = Budapest, Hungary

| cinematography = Ernest Vincze

| runtime = 400 minutes

| company = Consolidated Productions
Finnegan/Pinchuk Productions
Rafshoon Communications

| budget = $12 million

| network = Turner Network Television

| first_aired = {{Start date|1989|09|17}}

| last_aired = {{End date|1989|09|20}}

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The Nightmare Years is a 1984 book by William L. Shirer, recounting his pre-WW2 years as a journalist in Nazi Germany.

{{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Nightmare-Years-1930-1940-William-Shirer/dp/B002A4A56S/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8|title = The Nightmare Years 1930-1940|date = January 1984| publisher=Little, Brown and Company | isbn=978-0-316-78703-1 }}

It is also a 1989 American television miniseries directed by Anthony Page. It stars Sam Waterston as Shirer, the American reporter stationed in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. The supporting cast comprises Marthe Keller, Kurtwood Smith, Ronald Pickup, Peter Jeffrey, Walter Gotell and Garrick Hagon.

The miniseries premiered on Turner Network Television on September 17, 1989 as a four-part miniseries and was later released on VHS. As of 2014, there are limited versions of the series on DVD.