Countdown to War
Directed by: Patrick Lau
6.7 3
DramaHistoryWarTV Movie
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.
Cast

Ian McKellen
Adolf Hitler

Michael Aldridge
Neville Chamberlain

Tony Britton
Sir Nevile Henderson

John Woodvine
Joachim von Ribbentrop

Peter Vaughan
Hermann Goering

Michael Culver
Halifax

Anthony Bate
Simon

Lee Montague
Hore-Belisha

Jonathan Coy
Butler

Ronnie Stevens
Phipps
J
Jack Galloway
MacDonald

Richard Heffer
Wallace
J
John Elmes
Colvin

Bernard Gallagher
Greenwood
D
David Swift
Daladier

Robert Ashby
Bonnet
B
Bernard Brown
Corbin

Alex Norton
Stalin

Michael Cronin
Molotov

James Laurenson
Ciano

Barrie Rutter
Mussolini

Stephen Moore
Beck

Bill Stewart
Lipski

John Stratton
Hacha
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