Drama ·History ·War ·TV Movie · United Kingdom · 1989 · 1h 18m

Countdown to War

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Director
Patrick Lau
Cast
Ian McKellen as Adolf Hitler Michael Aldridge as Neville Chamberlain Tony Britton as Sir Nevile Henderson John Woodvine as Joachim von Ribbentrop Peter Vaughan as Hermann Goering Michael Culver as Halifax
Synopsis

Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany caused by Hitler's invasion of Poland.

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