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.
Directed By
Patrick LauWritten By
Ronald HarwoodCast of Countdown to War
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
John ElmesColvin
Bernard GallagherGreenwood
David SwiftDaladier
Robert AshbyBonnet
Bernard BrownCorbin
Alex NortonStalin
Michael CroninMolotov
James LaurensonCiano
Barrie RutterMussolini
Stephen MooreBeck
Bill StewartLipski
John StrattonHacha