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.

Drama History War

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)

Jack Galloway

(MacDonald)

Richard Heffer

(Wallace)

John Elmes

(Colvin)

Bernard Gallagher

(Greenwood)

David Swift

(Daladier)

Robert Ashby

(Bonnet)

Bernard Brown

(Corbin)

Alex Norton

(Stalin)

Michael Cronin

(Molotov)

James Laurenson

(Ciano)

Barrie Rutter

(Mussolini)

Stephen Moore

(Beck)

Bill Stewart

(Lipski)

John Stratton

(Hacha)