Countdown to War — 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 and France declare war on Germany.
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, including the ultimatum delivered to Berlin after Germany ignored demands to withdraw from Poland.