First Time Watching Darkest Hour| Movie Reaction

[@bluesrocker91]

The thing that fascinates me most about Churchill is just how much he managed to pack into his life... - Served as a Cavalry Officer in India - Escaped a POW Camp during the Second Boer War - Became an MP - Served as Home Secretary - Served as First Lord of the Admiralty - Fought on the front lines in WWI with the Royal Scots Fusiliers - Came back and formed the Landship Committee that developed the first tanks - Served as Chancellor - Served as PM during WWII - Served as PM for a second time in the 1950s While doing all this he somehow found the time to... - Author 31 non-fiction books/volumes and 2 novels. - Wrote God-knows how many articles and columns for various newspapers and magazines - Taught himself bricklaying - Produced over 500 paintings in an art studio he built himself All I can imagine is there wasn't a single day of his life where he just sat on his arse and did nothing.

[@TheEclecticBeard]

Seems he was quite the busy man.

[@peterjackson4763]

Won a Nobel prize for Literature Took flying lessons before WW1 (before giving up at his wife's request) As First Lord of the Admiralty (the first time) modernized the Royal Navy, switching it from coal to oil Won a national fencing championship as a schoolboy

[@dlarge6502]

I love the fact that he once said that he thought God had some special task for him to do on earth. This was because he was commenting on the fact that so far he hadn't been allowed to die! He fell off a bridge as a child onto a dry river bed, gave him that speech impediment but didn't kill him. Plus all the times he nearly died on the battlefield. I love how he was essentially thinking he had some kind of "plot armour" 😂

[@DH.2016]

Not only India but also Sudan where he participated in one of the last British cavalry charges at the Battle of Omdurman.

[@andybrown4284]

Also in part responsible for modern spy agencies with his instruction to have a network across europe to set it ablaze, the methods used by the cia to undermine governments and aid the insurgent groups fighting them were taught to them by the british during ww2. The ministry of ungentlemanly warfare is an awful popcorn movie but the book is definitely worth a read.

[@charlesfrancis6894]

My favourite quote from Churchill was when Lady Astor said to Churchill "If i was married to you I'd put poison in your coffee" to which Churchill replied "If i were married to you i would drink it" .

[@oopsdidItypethatoutloud]

I love that one too 😂

[@bluesrocker91]

I think my favourite was when a woman MP criticised him for being drunk in the Commons Bar, he replied... "Madam, in the morning I will be sober, but you will still be ugly." 🤣🤣

[@maudeboggins9834]

WC was indeed full of humorous & clever quips. Too many to mention. The foresight WC had was tremendous he was to my mind a true visionary. His vision of a united Europe to keep the peace.

[@maudeboggins9834]

@@bluesrocker91 I was thinking of that one too when I read the above quote.

[@maudeboggins9834]

@@bluesrocker91 "Woman MP"! I think the correct term is "Female MP" as one does not say ""Man MP"

[@revbenf6870]

"Don't interrupt me while I am interrupting you!" One of the best lines in a great movie and I'm still astonished by Oldman's performance.

[@zhardoum]

As an English man born in the 60’s, this moment is burnt into our collective memories , my parents lived through WwIi and my grandparents died in it. This was for sure ‘our finest hour’.

[@autarchprinceps]

Gary Oldman is a truly insane actor

[@jamesthompson3674]

This country was so very lucky to have Winston Churchill......'Cometh the hour, cometh the man'.

[@RockinDave1]

@@jamesthompson3674 luck had very little to do with it as the powers that be all knew he was the right man for the job and so made sure he was prime minister in 1940.

[@Fanackapan101-hh5el]

Alan …..Sir Winston was given a State funeral , unlike any other Prime Minister in our history ( Ithink) , gun carriage, six black horses , people lined the streets to morn and show how much we respected him and thanked God he was there ……our Royals , European Royals and World leaders were there…. He was a great leader in war but Britain was ready for change and the NHS in the Labor party manifesto was what was desperately needed after the war …..to get people well , without incurring debt and eager to rebuild our country !!!!! Clement Attlee was the next Prime Minister and it was Welshman , Aneurin ( pronounced Aniran) Bevan , who created the NHS …..two more great men in our history !!! 😉👍

[@simonoleary9264]

I only recently discovered that during the war we technically had two PMs. Attlee ran the country and Churchill ran the war. This was a logical splitting of tasks, but it did mean that Attlee proved himself to be able to run the country, which I think probably contributed to the Labour victory in 1945.

[@speleokeir]

The Duke of the Wellington also had a state funeral for much the same reason. Defeating Napoleon, another European dictator. Margaret thatcher also wanted a state funeral which shows just how deluded she was to think she was in any way comparable to those two. Her legacy was to plunge much of the population into poverty and destroy whole communites.

[@pauldurkee4764]

Alan, young people in Britain today have no idea how much they owe this man, at a time of unbelievable peril, at the time he was neither a young man or particularly fit, but he took the responsibility of the free world on his shoulders, and held the destiny of countless millions in his hands. Regarding the danger of flying to france to meet the french government, he wanted to land on the beaches of Normandy on D Day, the king had to persuade him it wasn't a good idea, he had courage that man.

[@RaceDayReplay]

ahhh, the old 'kids today' comment. Truly evergreen

[@pauldurkee4764]

@@RaceDayReplay Well its relevant because most kids are just completely ignorant.

[@RaceDayReplay]

@@pauldurkee4764 every generation says that

[@danielwhyatt3278]

@@RaceDayReplay Well, it's said here because it's sadly TRUE.

[@RaceDayReplay]

@@danielwhyatt3278 yes, it's true that every generation says it

[@albin2232]

He knew for years exactly what was coming.

[@julianwilcox399]

Churchill did actually predict exactly what Hitler would do, He wrote about it in press articles in the 1930s and was totally ignored by most Western World Statesman

[@eragon4249]

Can you tell me what to look up to find this and read it? I am interested.

[@alanbeaumont4848]

Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf" outlining what he wanted to do; but most people assumed that and his speeches were simply politics.

[@eragon4249]

@@alanbeaumont4848 What

[@Steve-ys1ig]

Probably the greatest statesman of the 20th century and a true Briton who loved his country - we desperately need someone like him now.

[@stephenclarke2206]

He would probably have used the Army on the rioters the other week

[@martindunstan8043]

​@stephenclarke2206 there wouldn't have been any rioters though would there,as Churchill would never have allowed an unbridled illegal immigration invasion which has rightly angered so many people.

[@stephenclarke2060]

​@@martindunstan8043The British Labour force was shorthanded when the war ended that's when the Windrush people came over. Lots of people also left from the 50s onwards you emigrate to Australia for £10. I don't think the people rioting the other week had particularly noble motives or much of an excuse

[@seancorker5815]

@@stephenclarke2060Migration up to the mid 90’s was net in the 10’s of thousands. A figure thatthe country could assimilate and was great full of. Immigration in the last 20 years is over 10 x that figure per year.

[@CarolWoosey-ck2rg]

​@@stephenclarke2060why are the British people slammed as the rioters when hordes of machete wielding Muslims rioted , looted and damaged property-attacked people sitting enjoying a drink etc etc - those 3thugs still haven't been dealt with for attacking police at Manchester airport, - as for tge windrush immigrants they were LEGAL 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[@robhallam8047]

One of the greatest historical speeches of all time at the end my friend.....really wish you had played it in it's full glory!!! Great reaction to a truly great man!

[@TheEclecticBeard]

I wish I could've. Outside the context of the larger film I probably could've

[@eamonnclabby7067]

​@@TheEclecticBeard..no worries ,matey....fine job...cheers...E....

[@rodsinclair2573]

A Bridge Too Far is a fantastic movie to review. A star studded cast, and a masterpiece of cinematography from the 70s.

[@davidclarke7122]

Right, now follow this with "Battle of Britain" 1969, it's the perfect follow on from this movie.

[@speleokeir]

Or Dunkirk.

[@davidclarke7122]

@@speleokeir only if it's the 1956 version with John Mills, not that latest abortion!

[@rayvanhorn1534]

Given the chaos which covers the entire globe today, it is evident that the leaders of the free world have never heard nor read Churchill’s speeches of warnings.They are blind in the same manner as Chamberlain, & I fear will choose to not fight this time. This film is absolutely brilliant, & I believe Gary Oldman’s finest performance.

[@RockinDave1]

Churchill knew what Hitler would do and had been warning of it since the 30s

[@Beefy5039]

My persoal favourite remark was i think to Von Ribbentrop. He told Churchill that if war was declared, the italians would side with the Axis powers, Winston replied, Well that's only fair, we had them last time.

[@marionthompson3365]

Haha, excellent!

[@CarolWoosey-ck2rg]

A good film- Churchill not always liked but he did the job required - don't have leaders like him anymore mores the pity, dont have the same loyalty to the people 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@MrNigelTBean]

A definite case of cometh the hour, cometh the man

[@KeithWilliamMacHendry]

Churchill got voted out because the British people were exhausted, they needed a health service & were in no state to fight any longer, that being against the Soviet threat. It was the votes of the overseas service personnel that swung it for the Labour Party. My dad's generation endured rations until 1954 & maintaining empire as Winston wanted, was the least of their concerns. That said, Winston Churchill was loved.

[@peterjackson4763]

Every major party was committed to creating a National Health Service.

[@dlarge6502]

We voted him back in again!

[@davidcook7887]

Great to hear an American who understands.

[@adammullarkey4996]

I highly recommend Dunkirk. It shows the same story, but told from the perspective of the soldiers on the front lines.

[@TheEclecticBeard]

Reacted to it but it's now blocked on here

[@steveyates7044]

@@TheEclecticBeard Was that the 1958 (Richard Attenborough) version, or the more recent one (2017)?

[@davidclarke7122]

@@steveyates7044 IMHO the1958 version is the better movie.

[@cornishbluebird]

​@@steveyates704458 is a far superior movie to the 2017...

[@petermainwaringsx]

About the only bit of poetry I can remember from my time in school (over 60 years ago) is spoken by Churchill in this movie. I must have found it worth remembering. Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate: ‘To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods,

[@101steel4]

Great film about a great man ✌️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@xlerb_again_to_music7908]

Chamberlin was fully aware of the consequences and threats of Hitler. In 1938 the UK was unfit to fight - he needed to buy time. His public face was upbeat and hopeful, meanwhile he moved the factories further North (away from the European coast), building the radar network, expanding the RAF and the UK military...

[@alanbeaumont4848]

Ceding territory in Czechoslovakia resulted in a doubling of the German tank numbers when they took the rest of the country, including the Skoda tank factories. A war in 1938 would not have been the disaster 1940 was.

[@DarrKernow]

"I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college" ~ Winston Churchill Never a truer comment spoken.

[@MasqueradeOFAngelsOffical]

Churchill speeches in the movie word for word is what he actually said.

[@ravensdark99]

Most people dont realize that guy was a nobel prize winning author...there is a reason why he was so good with words

[@speleokeir]

You're correct. Stephen Dilane played both Lord Halifax and Stanis Baratheon.

[@mikecaple3945]

Great reaction Alan, now please watch “The Battle of Britain” and see the RAF’s part in our Country’s heroic struggle.

[@andrewobrien6671]

Churchill was the man for the moment. It was a situation he was born for.

[@michaeltaylor8835]

My grandfather had speeches of churchill on vinyl

[@leebraden4583]

Uv inspired me. I'm gonna watch the film my self. Thank you e b.

[@ltsecomedy2985]

Hi E.B., it was great to see you react to this film & wonderful performance by Gary Oldman. Please consider the 1969 film (Battle Of Britain) for a future reaction. It stars many well known British Actors/Actresses & some amazing aerial footage. Among the stars involved are Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier & Ian McShane.

[@spikeus3039]

23:30 is the absolute definition of 'You're on your own' ..Deal with it!

[@TheCyberSalvager]

This is something that I keep meaning to watch! The scene where Churchill was meeting the French leadership was filmed in a hangar at a local airfield that was a bomber base in the world war 2...which is literally 25 minutes walk away from where I live!

[@ginojaco]

The scene on the underground is a fiction, but a sound metaphor. Good film, good acting, good story - all the better for it's being fact-based. The UK was extremely lucky to have Churchill at that time. We need a Churchill again now, but we haven't got one...

[@damianleah6744]

I watched this quite recently for the second time, and it’s a brilliant movie.

[@lizthompson9653]

This was a brilliant performance by gary oldman. My pare ts lived through ww2 aged 8 yrs at the outset and brought me up with all their experiences. My family lived in maidstone in kent and my parents recalled all the boats mooring up ready for dunkirk. They later looked up in the sky and watched the battle of britain and even later looked up again and saw the planes fly over for dday. This period in history might not be so acute in the memory of the younger generation but is somehow embedded in the british psyche and character. Rationing is why we are so good at queueing and keep calm and carry on is a pretty true if cliched example of the british attitude. Ignore the recent riots but focus on the majority of peoples response to them x

[@zetectic7968]

Hi Alan: good reaction. Halifax was a supporter of appeasement (peace at any price). The French army was still fighting to keep the German army away from Dunkirk & many were not evacuated. About a month later there was another rescue from Cherbourg where British & French troops were brought back to England. The disaster of Dunkirk was not the loss of men that could be replaced but the BEF lost ALL its heavy equipment ( artillery, trucks, tanks) & RAF much needed planes & pilots. It is a myth that the Germans could invade Britain: they never got air superiority, the Kriegsmarine didn't have the ships to take on the Royal Navy plus didn't have the vessels to transport enough of the army to the English coast. There are many older films to watch: The Dambusters, Sink the Bismarck, Carve her name with pride (about Violette Szabo & the SOE) and Cockleshell Heroes,also The Wooden Horse, Ice Cold in Alex, Above us the waves, The Colditz Story.

[@Beefy5039]

I have always disagreed that Bob saved the country as you say. No invasion barges to speak of, small matter of the English channel which by that point would be thick with Royal Navy who were still the most formidable in the world, even if they made it to the beachs armour wouldn't have been much use on the country roads, guerrilla tactics as well as organised infantry lines...absolutely no disrespect to the RAF ( not this time anyway )

[@peterjackson4763]

Approximately a third of the troops evacuated from Dunkirk were French. Most were returned to France. A British force of around 60,000 was landed in France after Dunkirk. The first British armoured division was still in Britain, being trained, so was not lost.

[@davidricks7128]

Great video another one i think you would enjoy and very much worth reacting to is The Dam Busters

[@johnneylin831]

great reaction E B fantastic again

[@Oddballkane]

I know it's not about the man himself, but when countries were under nazi power, some people listened to the bbc radio simply because at the end of every news broadcast big ben would chime and people said hearing that bell gave them hope that while that bell rung at least one country was free and hope was still there. I think it's lovely to know that Big ben brings hope to people.

[@charlesfrancis6894]

Churchill gave orders to sink the French fleet in port at Mers-el Kebir regardless of a promise from a French senior officer that the ships would not be handed over and assurance from the German Government that they had no intention of using the French fleet. I guess just the thought of the large French ships joining the Kriegsmarine was unthinkable and there were over a thousand French sailors killed .

[@timphillips9954]

He had no choice

[@dave_h_8742]

Hitler was a known bullshitter, he lied. Peace in our time and then invaded Checkoslava, Poland Belgium, Holland and France.

[@peterjackson4763]

He ordered that the French Navy at various locations be given several options, such as surrendering, or sailing to neutral ports. Sinking was the last resort.

[@cornishbluebird]

The tube scene is a recreation of what people were thinking at the time, it was obviously the only way the film could portray the thoughts and voices of the people

[@dlarge6502]

It also is an amalgamation of the times that Churchill was found to "be missing". He had a history of suddenly vanishing only to be found chatting to members of the public outside about all sorts of issues.

[@jeffreyweitzman6463]

Now that you have seen Darkest Hour - it would be cool to see you reacting to the movie Battle of Britain which in effect would see you following on from this. Obviously a much older film than this but a total classic highly praised for its faithful depiction of that part of WW2 British history and how the RAF and its young serving personnel back then despite the odds prevailed. An all star cast of the era including Michael Caine etc. but yeah think even the whole movie is already on KZbin so relatively easy access to react to it.

[@LindaRolph-e6g]

Brilliant film. The UK of old.

[@adammullarkey4996]

3:50 That's not true. Even as late as 1941, Hitler was still hoping for peace with Britain. Britain was one of the few countries he admired. Moreover, he viewed Britain as a natural ally against communism.

[@davesy6969]

Churchill knew that any agreement with Hitler was worthless as Hitler had already promised "no more territorial demands in europe" then went on to invade Czechoslovakia and Poland.

[@seancorker5815]

Churchills trip to visit the French leader in 1940 was to get an agreement for a Franco-British Union. The two countries would become one. The details were initially discussed by Churchill and De Gaulle in London a month earlier but General Petain, the French leader declined

[@lyndarichardson4744]

Alan, the reason Churchill got voted out of office after the war, was that Attlee ( Labour Party) could see people were exhausted and many had lost their houses. Churchill was against the more Socialist idea of the Government giving more support to its people. ( Churchill was a member of the aristocracy and only was in tune with working people to a certain extent ) The health service then was very unfair, and Attlee proposed setting up a National Health Service. This is one of the main reasons the Conservatives lost the election .

[@michaeltaylor8835]

Churchill advocated for mustard gas in Ww1

[@blackcountryme]

My nan said people were sick of war, and that why they voted him out...

[@avmavm777]

It’s a great movie. The underground scene didn’t happen though. There’s no evidence for it. He often said that he had listened to the people, but I think this was usually working people where he was - maids, secretaries, cleaners etc.

[@leehallam9365]

It's a great film, and catches the spirit of events very well. The King was suspicious of Churchill and was won over. Churchill had campaigned for his brother to remain king, and Halifax was a personal friend. Churchill had a tricky relationship with his party, he had started as a Conservative, defected to the Liberals, then defected back. He had spent the last decade attacking his own party from the back benches. He only became leader of the party when Chamberlain died, but there is no evidence of a plot to oust him. Halifax was very much for a deal, but Chamberlain was actually quietly supportive of Churchill in War Cabinet. He was a dying and disappointed man, he had been a great chancellor whose policy protected Britain from the worst of the depression, he was just a man of peace, who couldn't understand the wickedness of Hitler, but he did understand at this point. To do a deal was the rational choice looking purely from the countries perspective. Hitler had no real interest in Britain or its empire. Churchill saw the bigger picture that a deal would mean accepting living on the edge of a nightmare Europe and s slow decay to subservience. Despite what is shown there is no evidence he wobbled. The secretary was a real oerson, but she didn't have a brother who died and didn't for Churchill till after this time. The underground scene is fiction, but the speech to the outer cabinet that followed it was real. No one heard the speeches to Parliament on the radio, they read them in print, and the recordings we have were made after the war. He lost in 1945 because people wanted a government focused on domestic reform, Churchill was focused still on war and diplomacy. Attlee had been running the Home Front as deputy PM for 5 years, it wasn't a big leap to keep him running it.

[@peterjackson4763]

Churchill won his personal election. It was the Conservative party that lost.

[@deepfriedhamsters3273]

Al give the movie the Battle of Britain 1969 a go it has an all star cast including Michael Caine and thanks for another great reaction ❤

[@andydavis8437]

Thanks for the Insightful reaction as always, you might want to check out Young Winston Churchill at some point

[@martybennett1861]

Hi , as someone who seems into their war / historical movies, i would like to recommend two films - Spartacus and Memphis Belle . They are quite different but definitely worth watching 🙂

[@colinperry8824]

Churchill was the only one who knew how evil Hitler and the nazis would become if nothing was done stop them.

[@zvimur]

About the King's stuttering speech and the general attitude toward it, look up "The King's Speech".

[@maudeboggins9834]

Winston Churchill lived to be 90 years old, despite excessive alcohol & cigars & being PM during a war. He had good strong genes.

[@dlarge6502]

He was told to drink the alcohol for medicinal purposes. He eventually gave it up, like my granddad who was told to drink every day for the same reason and eventually told that he should never have been doing it. He died from the damage to his liver because of it.

[@GaryG1974]

Alan, that must have taken a while to edit down. I saw the film in its entirety some time ago and you captured the best bits perfectly. 👍

[@thomasmullen4684]

Oldman won an oscar for thid

[@TheEclecticBeard]

Rightfully so

[@spoonzor1]

Im sad that today people talk so badly about this man, a finn i respect him. 'Sublime in the jaws of peril, Finland shows what free men can do. The service rendered by Finland to mankind is magnificent. ' - Churchill

[@rickybuhl3176]

I won't needle the camel but it's a pleasure to watch you react to this sir.

[@deb4762]

I watched Gary Oldman in an interview and he was talking about filming this. He had stopped smoking years before and to be authentic they sourced the cigars that Churchill would have smoked. He was going through roughly 12 per day for 3 months, cost about $33,000. He said he had nicotine poisoning and had to have a colonoscopy. Talk about suffering for your art.

[@finncullen]

"How do you win a war and get voted out at election time?" - Churchill was exactly the right sort of leader for war, and a bloody appalling one for peace. The veterans returning from the war had earned a better society and Churchill would not have provided that, he was very opposed to some of the social reforms of the time and most of the post-war breakthroughs the UK got (the NHS, decent levels of social care, worker rights etc) would have been unthinkable under Churchill... but the returning troops in their millions made their thoughts known at the ballot box. Prior to the war, Churchill was a political adventurer and largely ineffective and proved so again afterwards. I'm in no way diminishing his effect as a wartime Prime Minister - he was bold and inspiration and autocratic and exactly what was needed to mobilise a nation (and Empire) toward one cause, brooking no dissent.

[@dlarge6502]

You realise he was happily voted back into office a few years after the war. As for "diminishing his effect" I think you have quite a challenge there, seeing as 18 countries have statues of him, the USA made him an honorary citizen, he has similar freedoms of cities etc all over the world. Won the Nobel prize for literature, wrote the best account of every aspect of everything that happened in WW2. He also gave up his Xmas entirely one year to go to Greece, to save them from the fist of Stalin, someone who was an ally during WW2 and one he came to know very well, so well that he was the next "problem" he warned everyone about. Thanks to him Greece remained free. Would you do that? Give up your entire Xmas one year and spend it fighting for the freedom of a country? Cold war anyone? Walking in the shadow of the man who basically organised and administered the saving of the entire western world and freedom across all the world is a big ask. I'm afraid you couldn't diminish him if you tried.

[@ashleywetherall]

The scene on the tube didn't happen at all. But it was needed to show the growing trust between the people and they're new PM. In fact during the Blitz Churchill toured to bomb damage of the East end of London . He shook his fist and said " we can take it.. The Eastender's told him to F**k off back to his bunker. and come back when he knew what he was talking about. He did and he told the King, who laughed. After Buckingham palace was bombed The king and Queen toured the bombed out areas of London, because they could now look the East end in the face..

[@andybrown4284]

There was a lot of political leadership who were pushing for appeasement through fear of another experience like WW1. If the UK didn't have a firebrand like churchill back then europe would possibly be quite different today

[@Weareeverything2023]

Churchill was the right man to be a wartime PM, after VE the people wanted a peacetime PM, to rebuild the country for the future. Churchill represented the past, not the future. It seems a crazy decision showing no loyalty or compassion to the great man, but he was considered the greatest ever Briton by most since the end of WW2. The USA public had no appetite for joining another world war, after the horrors of WW1, you can’t blame them for that IMO.

[@bigbird2100]

Great video 👍 Watched this not long ago and gave a good dramatised feel of the political situation in uk and the spirit of the Churchill effect 😅

[@kennethredpath3451]

Gary Oldman is a brilliant actor, if you get the chance watch Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011, very good movie, the BBC series with Alec Guinness was excellent as well.

[@davesy6969]

If you haven't already seen them, you should watch Dr. Strangelove and the Death of Stalin. Both are incredibly brilliant british black comedies.

[@bw8349]

I am lucky to take German in High School and College by choice and not because it was required by our German Overlords, Winston saved the West and no one else. Hello from Houston Texas.

[@dlarge6502]

Many of the people alive today able to choose to take German freely would not be alive today had he not done what he did. Had Britain fell, you wouldn't even have a computer, as Alan Turing would certainly have been eliminated should they have found out about his homosexually. The world would be an incredibly different and hostile place. Asia would have been dominated by Japan and Europe by Germany. All following ideals laid out by a madman on what to do about purifying the human race. You'd need to at least have brown hair and eyes and white skin to have a chance, with blue eyes and fair hair giving you incredible privileges. The US might be the last place to hold them off.

[@stephenhodgson3506]

Churchill sowed the seeds for his own election defeat in his appointment of his coalition war cabinet. Because of his upbringing he did not believe that Labour politicians could deal with foreign affairs and war so he appointed them in effect to run the domestic policies of the country on a day to day basis while he and his Conservative members ran the war. Attlee and Labour proved to be more than capable of running the country and the people saw this. At the end of the war Churchill and the Conservatives campaigned on more of the same from the 1930's. The people remembered the depression and deprivation of the 1930's under the Conservatives and also that it was their appeasement that had brought about the war. The Labour Party campaigned for change and a fairer sharing of what wealth there was. During the election campaign when the Conservatives said that the Labour Party was too inexperienced to be in government the people had five years experience of seeing the contrary. When you have suffered the last thing you want is more of the same and so the Conservatives suffered a landslide against them. It was more a rejection of the Conservatives than a rejection of Churchill. You have to remember that Churchill was a journalist in an age when journalism meant having to research and pt things into words so he was bound to have a way with words. Let's not forget that Churchill went on to win the Nobel Literature prize.

[@cornishbluebird]

Halifax was shipped off to America not long after dealing with him...

[@casp1965]

you should what the battle of britain

[@Pseudonym-aka-alias]

Bridge ON the River Kwai🤓

[@petersone6172]

If Britain had agreed peace with Nazi Germany in 1940, then the Empire would probably have not become involved until Japan’s attack in Asia, it’s possible even probable that Barbarossa in 1941 might have succeeded.

[@DavidGloyne-vf9sv]

Viscount, It's not pronounced Vis -count but is pronounced Vi ( rhyming with eye) -count.

[@billdoor3140]

This is more depression than uplifting consider what our current P.M is doing to our country.

[@itsonlyme9938]

There was assembled a underground army in the UK if the invasion happened they would kill the invaders by surprise attacks just like the French underground but I feel it would bear a high price on the civilain people

[@dlarge6502]

Yes they were trained to be highly secretive and took vows that should the UK become occupied that they wouldn't let anyone stand in their way of doing their duty to attack the occupying force, even if it meant attacking their own family members.

[@cromwellthesynth]

pleeease watch the 1969 film Battle of Britain ^T^

[@R_McGeddon117]

The reason Churchill lost the subsequent general election was because he stood in the Scottish constituency of Dundee What was missed out in all the hype about Dunkirk was that Churchill ordered the 51st Highland division to stay behind and hold back the panzers while the evacuation took place After the evacuation Churchill abandoned the Highlanders and left them to their fate and didn't even bother about evacuating them To their credit the Highlanders held off the might of the German army for weeks and when they ran out of ammunition resorted to disabling the Panzers by climbing on the tanks and opening the turrets and killing the crews with their knives Rommel had to change hid battle tactics when he realised his invincible Panzers were vulnerable to kilt wearing angry Highlanders armed with nothing but a knife However the people of Scotland never really forgave Churchill for what he did

[@seancorker5815]

Not true- My Grandfather was in the 51st Highlanders and was one of the last troops evacuated.

[@R_McGeddon117]

@@seancorker5815 My grandfather (Seaforth Highlanders) fought on with his unit for 3 months including breaking out of St Valery but was captured after taking 3 machine gun bullets and spent 4 years in a POW camp in Poland thanks to Churchill

[@stevo728822]

You should watch Lawrence Of Arabia. Another David Lean movie.

[@elaineshakeshaft2830]

Brilliant film🇬🇧

[@Ayns.L14A]

Al, ....that is Stannis......lol

[@zvimur]

Have you noticed Commander Krennick? (King George... VI?)

[@matthewdearsley123]

Hitler was supposedly 'admiring' of the British and willing to an agreement in the early days. The appeasement isn't as stupid s it seems with hindsight.

[@timphillips9954]

Fool!

[@seanmc1351]

you also have to remeber if we had fallen, russia would have fallen, and he would have taken africa as well, because he would have controlled the med sea, where as we controlled gibralta, and have kept that to this day, so we can control the med sea The world would be very different, we also have to pay respects to all the allies as well

[@davehagi9883]

May I suggest you review 1917.....Peace.

[@amysutt]

on him being voted out as part of the war government members of the opposition had government jobs too mostly looking after the home front (health, jobs, production, food, etc) whilst the conservatives focused on the war in wartime the state majorly intervened in day to day life in a way it hadn't before (providing health care, shelter, food coupons) and the British people liked it and could see a labour government was good at that so in the first election after the war voted by a huge margin for labour which went on to create the NHS, build social housing, reform welfare, nationalised major industries and public utilities etc.

[@MancunianMrG]

Oldman is brilliant as per, but the film is a Puff Piece.

[@andypandy9013]

Whilst the bulk of the film is accurate there is some that is not. For example, the scene on the Underground (The "Tube") never took place, even though I really wish that it had. 🙂 Also, Parliament was not broadcast, even by radio, until June 1975 so the scenes of people listening to Churchill giving his speech in The House of Commons are pure fiction. Having said that it really is a cracking film and well deserving of the numerous awards it received.

[@dlarge6502]

The tube scene is an amalgamation of the times he was found to have vanished right when everyone was expecting him to attend a meeting etc. they frequently found him on the street just outside parliament chatting to the public about all sorts of subjects and issues.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Totally biased....a great man....Let us go forward together....cheers....E....😊😊😊

[@memkiii]

As you said, if Neville (assuming that account in the film wasn't just artistic licence), had his way, Britain would now be speaking German, and I can pretty much guarantee that so would at least a large proportion of the USA. Another couple of films portraying some true grit & determination in the early years of the war, in a pretty realistic manner, by people who took part The Cruel Sea. (Battle of the Atlantic - also a v good book) & Ice Cold in Alex - a take of adventure in North Africa, starring a very famous ambulance.

[@WullieBoy-c7f]

Great film. I don't think Hitler took himself out, he was alive well into the1960's.

[@dlarge6502]

The only other non-royals to get a state funeral in history to date were Admiral Nelson and The Unknown Warrior. Neither of which were PMs

[@thehonourableteddy605]

And the Duke of Wellington, of course.

[@charlesquinn8746]

watch the movie glory

[@itsonlyme9938]

Yes Churchill was a fighter and would not give in and listen to other peoples views and he was right and saved the free world.

[@michaeltaylor8835]

This England doesnt exist any more

[@andrewmason7207]

the romans couldny take us. no way the gerries where. winny didny like us very much but was happy to stick us on the front line

[@billdoor3140]

The Romans absolutely could but simply saw no real point in mostly wasteland, I would also point out why you ended up with humza but considering we currently have kier starlin we're for once in a more worrying situation than bitter Nationalist Scotland