Ike: Countdown to D-Day

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Ike: Countdown to D-Day

2004

1h 29m

6.4(47 votes)

Drama

War

History

TV Movie

Overview

The story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower's appointment as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to the establishment of the beachhead in Normandy.

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18 members

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Tom Selleck

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

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James Remar

General Omar Bradley

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Timothy Bottoms

Walter Bedell 'Beetle' Smith

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Gerald McRaney

Lieutenant General George S. Patton

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Ian Mune

Winston Churchill

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Bruce Phillips

General Bernard Montgomery

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John Bach

Air Marshal Leigh-Mallory

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Nick Blake

Air Chef Marshall Tedder

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Kevin J. Wilson

RAdm. Bert Ramsay

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Christopher James Baker

Group Capt. Maj. James Stagg

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David Mackie

Projector Sergeant

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Carole Seay

Queen Elizabeth

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Mick Rose

King George

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Bruce Hopkins

U.S. Colonel at Savoy

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Catherine Boniface

Woman at Savoy

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George Shevtsov

Général Charles de Gaulle

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Gregor McLennan

Captain Chapman

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Paul Gittins

Major General Henry Miller

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