Ike: Countdown to D-Day

May 31, 2004

1h 29m

★ 6.4

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.

Genres

Drama

War

History

TV Movie

Production Companies

A+E Global Media

Lionel Chetwynd Productions

Stephanie Germain Productions

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Cast

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Tom Selleck

General Omar Bradley

James Remar

Walter Bedell 'Beetle' Smith

Timothy Bottoms

Lieutenant General George S. Patton

Gerald McRaney

Winston Churchill

Ian Mune

General Bernard Montgomery

Bruce Phillips

Air Marshal Leigh-Mallory

John Bach

Air Chef Marshall Tedder

Nick Blake

RAdm. Bert Ramsay

Kevin J. Wilson

Group Capt. Maj. James Stagg

Christopher James Baker

Projector Sergeant

David Mackie

Queen Elizabeth

Carole Seay

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