Countdown to War

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.

• Patrick LauDirector

• Ian McKellenAdolf Hitler
• Michael AldridgeNeville Chamberlain
• Tony BrittonSir Nevile Henderson
• John WoodvineJoachim von Ribbentrop
• Peter VaughanHermann Goering
• Michael CulverHalifax
• Anthony BateSimon
• Lee MontagueHore-Belisha
• Jonathan CoyButler
• Ronnie StevensPhipps
• Jack GallowayMacDonald
• Richard HefferWallace