3 real historical locations · Germany, United Kingdom
A 1989 British drama depicting the final days of August 1939, as European leaders negotiated, bluffed, and ultimately failed to prevent the outbreak of war. A political thriller about how the world sleepwalked into the deadliest conflict in history.
CinemaMapped has mapped 3 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Germany, United Kingdom.
The 1989 Granada TV film depicts the political crisis of September 1939 from inside Downing Street and the capitals of Europe — the final days before Britain...
On 3 September 1939, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcast the announcement that Britain was at war with Germany. The film dramatises the cabinet meetings and diplomatic communications of those final days, incl...
View location →British ambassador Nevile Henderson cables London with increasingly alarming reports of Hitler's intentions in the final days of August 1939. The embassy bec...
Nevile Henderson was an arch-appeaser whose dispatches consistently softened Hitler's behaviour for London. His memoir 'Failure of a Mission' (1940) was a post-war reckoning with his own inadequacy.
View location →The Foreign Office machinery processes the final diplomatic exchanges as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact confirms the worst: Germany and the Soviet Union have di...
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 23 August 1939 shocked London and Paris. The FO had believed a Soviet alliance was possible. Its signature made Germany's attack on Poland inevitable — and the Western response inescapable.
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