Countdown to War (1989)
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.
- Released
- 1989-04-07
- Genres
- Drama, History, War, TV Movie
- Runtime
- 78 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Patrick Lau
- TMDB rating
- 6.8/10 from 4 votes
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
- Anthony Bate as Simon
- Lee Montague as Hore-Belisha
- Jonathan Coy as Butler
- Ronnie Stevens as Phipps
- Jack Galloway as MacDonald
- Richard Heffer as Wallace
More like this
- Outlaws - For Greater Glory (2012)
- Walking with the Enemy (2014)
- The Last Rifleman (2023)
- The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
- Field of Lost Shoes (2015)
- Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2004)
- The Kill Team (2019)
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)
- Waiting for Anya (2020)
- Uprising (2001)
- Palestine 36 (2025)
- Girl in the Box (2016)