Countdown to War

IMDb link: 0204980
IMDb rating: 6.6 (235 votes)
Genres: Drama, War, History
Director: Patrick Lau
Cast: Ian McKellen, Tony Britton, John Woodvine, Michael Aldridge and others

Release date: 31 Aug 1989
Release year: 1989
Runtime: 78 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Keywords: double cross, adolf hitler character, neville chamberlain character, hermann goering character, benito mussolini character, poland, soviet union, negotiation, nazi germany, world war two

Plot:

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

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