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This fascinating World War 2 documentary on BBC Select explores the three days leading up to war. On Friday 1st September 1939, Hitler’s Nazi forces invaded ...
- 3 min
- 18.3K
- BBC Select
Countdown to War on BBC Select. With war about to be declared, how did Britain prepare for battle with the Nazis? This World War 2 history documentary explores Britain on the eve of war. It’s 1939 and Britain could soon be under attack. How will the British public react as the Second World War looms?
Countdown to War. 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.
- (212)
- Drama, History, War
- Patrick Lau
- 78
Rate. Play trailer 1:44. 1 Video. 16 Photos. Action Adventure Sci-Fi Thriller. A stolen seismic weapon is activated in Yemen. A hostage freed there tries in vain to warn against its global effect. It starts seismic activity at the Californian fault line where her daughter and ex are monitoring it.
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- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Nick Lyon
- 2019-12-28
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BBC Select presents this innovative history documentary which looks at the days before war was officially declared. Panic sets in as Britain faces a conflict it is ill prepared for. How could the country ready itself for war with the Nazis?
Countdown to War is a television film made in 1989 as a co-production by Granada Television and PBS. It recounts the events that occurred between 15 March 1939, when the German army commanded by Adolf Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and created the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and 3 September 1939, the date when France and United Kingdom ...
