Countdown to War

Release Date: 1989-04-07

Overview: 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.

Rating: 5 / 10

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