"I will take full responsibility." "Really?" "Really! Yes Sir! It is the reason, I sit in this chair!" This is why Churchill sat in that chair, and Halifax didn't.
@AntPDC5 жыл бұрын
Exactly. Viscount Halifax was an appeaser, and appeasement is never a good thing.
@wyattpeterson62864 жыл бұрын
@@AntPDC People like Halifax just don't understand that sometimes painful decisions need to be made for the greater good.
@Wickedonezz4 жыл бұрын
@@AntPDC appeasement did prevent war
@حسينمانوس4 жыл бұрын
They are like bunch of children arguing while I was in Dunkirk .... but on the wrong side
@RetractedandRedacted4 жыл бұрын
@@Wickedonezz Appeasement is how the second world war started in the first place.
@boodyjacob93224 жыл бұрын
Halifax: Hundreds will die. Churchill: Thousands.
@akela43113 жыл бұрын
stannis😍
@meekmeads3 жыл бұрын
Stalin: Millions!!!
@edvinparmeza12983 жыл бұрын
History of mankind: Billions
@VuTran-mf7kj3 жыл бұрын
Come with me and take this beach!
@superyamky3 жыл бұрын
*Me: No Millions*
@rougebaba38874 жыл бұрын
Whoever it is playing Chamberlain, he looks the part to near absolute perfection. He didn't say a word in this clip, but the resemblance is amazing.
@chrisholland73674 жыл бұрын
This was an outstanding film ,there are some great examples of Britons in the right place at the right time Churchill was one of those Britons 🇬🇧
@WaxingRadiance4 жыл бұрын
Ronald Pickup is his name. RADA trained with a list of credits going back to the 60's.
@ephelduath6103 жыл бұрын
Remember him from Sherlock Holmes series where he played Barrymore
@tazindayanslothrop682 жыл бұрын
Seriously: Absolute perfection, he does display it.
@46FreddieMercury912 жыл бұрын
Another likeness in another film... Edward fox playing general horrocks in " a bridge too far" Had to do a double- take
@chilliard1206 жыл бұрын
Halifax is just salty bc he's not sitting the Iron Throne
@ericburns51256 жыл бұрын
Chilliard2000 I hated Halifax I always thought that he was a spy for Hitler
@shaboopie126 жыл бұрын
But it's his by right!
@Schwedeballz6 жыл бұрын
Heard he throws a mean BBQ
@coolbrando16 жыл бұрын
THE IRON THRONE IS MINE BY RIGHT!
@schwakyl0006 жыл бұрын
Nah he’s just pissed John Adams didn’t vote for him as President.
@jaypoole80563 жыл бұрын
"Really! Yes, sir! It is the reason I sit in this chair!" Churchill was essentially calling Lord Halifax a backseat driver and a coward. Lord Halifax was favored by all to be PM after Chamberlain's ousting, but he didn't want the job, so it fell on Churchill. Churchill was saying "Yes, I will take responsibility and you won't as it always has been because you should be sitting in this chair but you aren't...I am."
@serenity57553 жыл бұрын
Also, it's not that Halifax didn't want the job, he wouldn't have been approved by the coalition government at the time (comprised of Whigs - Labour - and Tories - Conservatives). The Labour party wanted Churchill to be PM.
@AWABPW3 жыл бұрын
Backseat driver, coward, dare I say, a sympathiser?
@demonprinces172 жыл бұрын
Dunkirk was to be a failure and Churchill to get the blame then chamberlains people go back to power, but didn't work out that way
@Legba852 жыл бұрын
@@demonprinces17 no it didn’t! Churchill and Dynamo was a huge success!
@demonprinces172 жыл бұрын
@@Legba85 but chamberlains people thought it would fail
@liambarrett92104 жыл бұрын
Nicholson died in a prisoner of war camp in 1943 not truly knowing the impact he and his men had on saving over 300,000 men at Dunkirk and therefore keeping Britain in the war, he and his men truly are heroes. 🇬🇧
@GreatPolishWingedHussars Жыл бұрын
They wouldn't have had this darkest hour and also the disaster of Dunkirk if they hadn't betrayed Poland in 1939. This betrayal of Poland in 1939 was not only dishonest but it was also a military stupidity of truly monumental dimensions. The opportunity to fight a brief, localized war against Germany was therefore lost in September 1939. In hindsight, also lost were the opportunities to save millions of lives and to have prevented the creation of conditions that led to the Cold War. As General Ironside the Chief of the British General Staff stated in 1945, after much of Europe was in ruins and 50 million have died, "Militarily we should have gone all out against the German the minute Germans invaded Poland. ... We did not ... And so we missed the strategical advantage of the Germans being engaged in the East. We thought completely defensively and of ourselves. After the war German military commander Alfred Jodl said that "if we did not collapse already in the year 1939 that was due only to the fact that during the Polish campaign, the approximately 110 French and British divisions in the West were held completely inactive against the 23 German divisions." German General Siegfried Westphal stated that if the French had attacked in full force in September 1939 the German army "could only have held out for one or two weeks." Franz Halder Chief of the German General Staff of the Army documents this fact in his war diary. "The Wehrmacht had been on the verge of a military logistical catastrophe in the Polish campaign. The happy ending after a few weeks saved her from having to stop the fight because of insufficient ammunition." For all that reasons the Germans had lost the war because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war! The French and British would only have had to attack massively in the West as agreed and the war would have ended quickly with a victory for Poland, France and the British! But instead of massively attacking as was agreed, they betrayed Poland and holed up cowardly in the bunkers. Instead of attacking, they did the cowardly so-called Phoney War. In 1939 there was a good opportunity for a relatively quick victory against Germany. Because the Germans were too weak for a two-front war. For victory over Germany the British and French should have only acted according to the plan worked out with Poland for the event of a German raid on Poland. Three tactical main actions in the event of a German-Polish war contained the agreements with the British and French: 1. France immediately carries out an air campaign according to a pre-determined plan. 2. As soon as part of the French troops are ready (on the third day or so), France will progressively launch offensive actions with limited targets. 3. As soon as the main effort of Germany was directed against Poland, no later than 15 days after the German attack France with British support would begin with the bulk of its troops an offensive action against Germany. If, according to this plan the British and French had massively attacked the Germans in the west the victory would be certain because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war. But instead Poland was betrayed!
@thegazza478 Жыл бұрын
@@GreatPolishWingedHussars poland strongest country
@GreatPolishWingedHussars Жыл бұрын
@@thegazza478 Do not exaggerate! Leastways Poland was the strongest country in Europe 600 years ago. Because Poland was the strongest country in Europe in the 15th century, because Poland was actually the only empire in Europe throughout that century. But since Poland has started an extreme rearmament program, in a few years Poland will be militarily the strongest NATO country in Europe of conventional armed forces.
@Jefffrrry Жыл бұрын
@@GreatPolishWingedHussars You can go back further. In 1938/39 the Allies sacrificed Czechoslovakia, first gave away parts of the country to Hitler to secure "peace in our time" and then the rest of it. Czechoslovakia was ready to mobilize over 1 million men within a week to fight for Sudetenland, and it would've held on in mountain forts with allies' help in the air and on another front. But France dishonored the alliance and 1.5 years later the Germans drove czech-produced tanks into Paris. And we can go back even further to at least 1936 when Hitler blatantly violated the WW1 peace treaty and marched into Rheinland... and France with Britain just watched it happen. At that time Germany had a fraction of its 1939/40's army, France had the strongest military on the continent with the means and just cause to stop Germany in its rearmament tracks. That being said, we have the power of hindsight, they didn't. We are talking about a time period mere 20 years after the most devastating war the world had seen up until that point. A war where millions of young men were senselessly sent to their deaths and tens of millions more died during the 2nd most deadliest pandemic that was able to spread so easily because of that war. Every democratic country was trying to avoid another such catastrophe at any cost and thought they could actually avoid it by appeasing the dictator. They thought wrong. And they had to pay for that mistake, but sadly they made the rest of the world pay for it too (ofc the most blame goes to the 3 mustache c***s Hitler, Stalin and Hirohito, should go without saying, but one never knows).
@mykeplays912 Жыл бұрын
@@GreatPolishWingedHussarsI agree that Germany was not ready for a 2 front war, one of the reasons he made the Molotov Ribbentrop pact with Stalin. However, I feel you are underestimating Germany’s capabilities and overestimating the allied capabilities. For one, the Allies needed time to mobilize. They had to mass troops and prepare them to go in to fight. If they didn’t, and had gone in quickly and unprepared, there likely could’ve been a result similar to Tannenburg in WW1. Also, the French army, while a bigger size than the Germans at that time, was in a worse shape with rarely inspected troops and still using obsolete technology such as horses at this point. At that point, while they could have been effective, I feel it is not so much a betrayal so much as caution. I do feel in the surrounding months however, they should have fought. Their inaction nearly doomed them all
@wt80126 жыл бұрын
Gary Oldman's performance in this was second-to-none.
@temjam016 жыл бұрын
Gary Oldmans performance in everything he does is second to none. IMO.
@ilfarmboy6 жыл бұрын
he did win an oscar for this
@jimmy2k4o5 жыл бұрын
Brendan Gleason and John Lithgow did fantastic Churchill’s But yeah I think Oldman was the best.
@Jared_Wignall5 жыл бұрын
Doug Williams and about time too. This should’ve been about his fifth or sixth Academy Award. He’s one of the most overlooked actors when it comes to awards.
@jimmy2k4o5 жыл бұрын
Jared Wignall not as overlooked as Leo Dicapprio. He should have at least 5 oscars by now. Gilbert grape Basketball diaries Catch me if you can Blood diamond Django Wolf Revanent
@wyattpeterson20955 жыл бұрын
Some people just can't accept that victory requires sacrifice.
@alanb94434 жыл бұрын
Yes but it’s easier to say that when your not the one being sacrificed.
@carleygranillo97114 жыл бұрын
alan B Exactly
@briliantkastanja28974 жыл бұрын
@@alanb9443 I would gladly die if my death can save 300.000 lives of my countrymen
@ashleymcintyre47163 жыл бұрын
Whole story leading up to this moment isn’t that simple. On paper Churchill looked mad in this moment.
@Tuning34343 жыл бұрын
@@briliantkastanja2897 Unfortunately those odds are hardly ever apparent on a confused mess that is a battlefield. It's hindsight that can determine if a sacrifice was pointless or made the real difference. I have always have mad respect for those VC winners, whether they survive or are awarded posthumously.
@drpapa266 жыл бұрын
0:41: Stannis Baratheon is having reservations about unnecessary sacrifices? I can't believe I am seeing this.
@kevinhorgan27705 жыл бұрын
drpapa26 Weally I’ve weservations he sounds like a deviant bbc announcer .
@lost71494 жыл бұрын
They didn't have kingsblood that's why
@gaybowser46484 жыл бұрын
That Stannis was a butchery.
@kbflorida8884 жыл бұрын
drpapa26 thanks, I saw him but couldn’t remember his “name”. Lol
@RealD82 жыл бұрын
I love these random GOT connections/references
@TheLastOfTheFinest806 жыл бұрын
You have to give maximum props to whoever did the make up in this movie, because Gary Oldman look totally unrecognizable.
@LittleB20076 жыл бұрын
That "whoever" (makeup designer Kazuhiro Tsuji) won all the awards for this movie, most deservedly
@patrickfarrell14916 жыл бұрын
TheLastOfTheFinest80 yes
@dum11276 жыл бұрын
I think it was Gary who knew him and recruited him.
@sbraypaynt5 жыл бұрын
Yeah You have to give max props to the makeup artist Not the actor No the only reason this is gold is because he looks like him Nothing to do with his phenomenal acting..... Jesus
@alalalala575 жыл бұрын
@@sbraypaynt So congratulating the make up artist is a sin now is it? Bloody tool
@smartamateur6 жыл бұрын
REALLY, YES SIR! IT IS THE REASON (slams chair) "I" SIT IN THIS CHAIR!
@MK-wt2sp5 жыл бұрын
He's a badass
@bunnyboilerification4 жыл бұрын
That's how you pull rank
@Kelly14UK4 жыл бұрын
@@bunnyboilerification Yup : )
@jonnybirchyboy15603 жыл бұрын
EVERRYYYYYYOOONNEEE!!!!!
@ppvk26103 жыл бұрын
@@jonnybirchyboy1560 lol
@mizi31806 жыл бұрын
Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman played crucial roles in the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk. Were it not for Hardy's badass flying and Oldman's political pull, the Germans would have decimated the Brits.
@Dr._Atom6 жыл бұрын
Sir Grumpsalot yeah, I'd love to imagine they're in the same cinematic universe 😊😊
@thecinemichael6 жыл бұрын
And don't forget Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, who cracked the enigma code haha.
@-RunninNGunnin-6 жыл бұрын
What about Cillian Murphy? :D
@u.h.forum.6 жыл бұрын
And that bloke from that band
@sr71295 жыл бұрын
Justin Bailey Dunkirk= the border of Germany. Ladies and gentlemen, someone needs a geography class, in addition to some common sense.
@brandonkey1816 жыл бұрын
Gary Oldman is so damn good. I cannot imagine a better performance!
@ericburns91325 жыл бұрын
So happy he won the Oscar for this he definitely deserved it
@Larrikins544 жыл бұрын
Hear hear. I watch this over and over. Churchill was not Australia's friend and he had a lot of flaws but he was the man of the moment. Oldman was just breathtaking.
@janesgems73 жыл бұрын
@@Larrikins54 He was the hero we needed
@GreatPolishWingedHussars2 жыл бұрын
They wouldn't have had this darkest hour and also the disaster of Dunkirk if they hadn't betrayed Poland in 1939. This betrayal of Poland in 1939 was not only dishonest but it was also a military stupidity of truly monumental dimensions. The opportunity to fight a brief, localized war against Germany was therefore lost in September 1939. In hindsight, also lost were the opportunities to save millions of lives and to have prevented the creation of conditions that led to the Cold War. As General Ironside the Chief of the British General Staff stated in 1945, after much of Europe was in ruins and 50 million have died, "Militarily we should have gone all out against the German the minute Germans invaded Poland. ... We did not ... And so we missed the strategical advantage of the Germans being engaged in the East. We thought completely defensively and of ourselves. After the war German military commander Alfred Jodl said that "if we did not collapse already in the year 1939 that was due only to the fact that during the Polish campaign, the approximately 110 French and British divisions in the West were held completely inactive against the 23 German divisions." German General Siegfried Westphal stated that if the French had attacked in full force in September 1939 the German army "could only have held out for one or two weeks." Franz Halder Chief of the German General Staff of the Army documents this fact in his war diary. "The Wehrmacht had been on the verge of a military logistical catastrophe in the Polish campaign. The happy ending after a few weeks saved her from having to stop the fight because of insufficient ammunition." For all that reasons the Germans had lost the war because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war! The French and British would only have had to attack massively in the West as agreed and the war would have ended quickly with a victory for Poland, France and the British! But instead of massively attacking as was agreed, they betrayed Poland and holed up cowardly in the bunkers. Instead of attacking, they did the cowardly so-called Phoney War. In 1939 there was a good opportunity for a relatively quick victory against Germany. Because the Germans were too weak for a two-front war. For victory over Germany the British and French should have only acted according to the plan worked out with Poland for the event of a German raid on Poland. Three tactical main actions in the event of a German-Polish war contained the agreements with the British and French: 1. France immediately carries out an air campaign according to a pre-determined plan. 2. As soon as part of the French troops are ready (on the third day or so), France will progressively launch offensive actions with limited targets. 3. As soon as the main effort of Germany was directed against Poland, no later than 15 days after the German attack France with British support would begin with the bulk of its troops an offensive action against Germany. If, according to this plan the British and French had massively attacked the Germans in the west the victory would be certain because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war. But instead Poland was betrayed!
@dusty44595 жыл бұрын
While i will take no part away from the Royal Air Force and the miracle that they pulled off, we must not forget the other reason why Hitler chose not to launch operation Sea lion and that was the simple fact that the Royal Navy held overwhelming power of the sea throughout the war.
@bobpage65975 жыл бұрын
There was also a reason the majority of the fleet was kept at Scapa Flow, beyond the range of effective German bombers. The fleet was only to sail in significant force IF the Germans mounted an actual attempt at invasion, in which case the Royal Navy would have decimated any landing attempt. That's why, without control of the air, the Royal Navy would always pose an insurmountable risk to any attempt at invasion. If the Luftwaffe had control of the air, then the danger of the Royal Navy is hugely mitigated. Ships at sea without air cover are easy pickings, as we found out with the loss of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse in Singapore. Germany's problem also was the shortage of amphibious capable craft. They literally did not have the MEANS to get an invasion force of the size needed to subdue Britain across the Channel. Add to that, the UK had essentially turned itself into an island fortress at this period. Even if an initial landing was by some miracle for the Germans successfull, it still needs to be kept supplied, and then the long slog inland and north would begin. Towards the end of the Battle of Britain, the UK was actually beginning to outproduce the Germans in the number of fighter aircraft we were making, and given that losses for the Luftwaffe were unsustainable, the tide had turned against the Germans significantly. For them, the situation had become a veritable stalemate. While the UK did not have the means to invade continental Europe on her own, the Germans likewise did not have the means to knock the UK out of the war. Hitler by the end of the Battle of Britain was already looking East, where the majority of his Army was gathering for his invasion of the Soviet Union. Just my input haha :)
@dusty44595 жыл бұрын
@@bobpage6597 Quite right, especially on the landing craft.I think they had barges that could be towed and maybe 2 or 3 actual landing craft.
@davidzof5 жыл бұрын
@@bobpage6597 This precious stone set in a silver sea Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands.
@chrisholland73675 жыл бұрын
Hugh Dowding was holding back on sending large numbers of spitfires and hurricanes because he knew the battle for Britain was on the cards . "The battle for France is over, the battle of Britain is about to begin "
@aland3175 жыл бұрын
Overwhelming power throughout the war... ??? It's called a World War for a reason...where was the RN in the Pacific...??,
@mitchellmurray58926 жыл бұрын
1:26 to 1:44 - Oscar clip
@Infernal4606 жыл бұрын
Mitchell Murray For which actor ?
@jakethefinn23536 жыл бұрын
Infernal460 Oldman Duh!
@Maxisamo16 жыл бұрын
"REALLY YES SIR!!! It is the reason *slams chair* I SIT IN THIS CHAIR!!!!"
@BloodyFlowerFilms3 жыл бұрын
I like to think that The King’s Speech, Dunkirk, and Darkest Hour take place in the same movie universe. Whenever I watch one, I’m thinking “and Gary Oldman is fighting the political while Hardy is fighting an air battle while Firth is dealing with his stutter”.
@Legba852 жыл бұрын
I believe Dunkirk is an indirect sequel to Darkest Hour. We see what Churchill was going through to save 300,000 soldiers while Tom was fighting to give those soldiers time to get away. And don’t forget Mark Rylance. The man in the boat with the other boatmen moving to save those troops.
@arthurcurry20032 жыл бұрын
Great movies
@Phineas1626 Жыл бұрын
Three amazing films, but The King’s Speech is hard to beat.
@battlep0t5 ай бұрын
Someone's actually edited Darkest Hour and Dunkirk into one film
@Mercenary-st8ge6 жыл бұрын
He even got that occasional barely understandable (to me) stutter to a point. Give Gary Oldman an award because that is some dedicated acting
@joshuagrover7954 жыл бұрын
The British and French garrison in Calais held off the Germans for three bloody days in hand to hand combat, which gave the trapped allied forces at Durkirk time to prepare its defences and evacuation. Respect to the defenders of Calais for their heroic fighting and sacrifice. 🙌😥🥀
@englishandturkce45134 жыл бұрын
@Joshua Grover..... they knew that the Dunkirk encircled men who were more in number would be saved and that they had to die for the British and Third French Empires!
@Mahiro8012 жыл бұрын
It was are fight fight
@MomMom4Cubs2 жыл бұрын
I'm an American, and a child of the Reagan era, and I'm still in the debt of the brave warriors that made evacuation possible. Without that, Turing cracking Enigma, American involvement, the fail-whale that was Mussolini, literally NONE of it would be worth a pisshole in a snowbank if not for the great sacrifice of men (and women) almost a century ago.
@yevgeniyaleshchenko849 Жыл бұрын
@@MomMom4Cubs Also without sacrifice of nations of former soviet union, including UKRAINIANS (who made up huge part of the soviet army) who gave their health and lives fighting fascists. You're also in a debt to modernday heroes, our Ukrainian soldiers fighting off modernday fascism while you're safe in the other part of the world.
@yevgeniyaleshchenko849 Жыл бұрын
@@englishandturkce4513 oh shut up, there were no french and british empire then, there was one wannabe empire which is third reich.
@PetrolHeadBrasil2 жыл бұрын
2022 - we need another Churchill, because things are getting bad....
@clarkewi2 жыл бұрын
Oldman won the Oscar. And you can see why. My God what a performance.
@GreatPolishWingedHussars Жыл бұрын
They wouldn't have had this darkest hour and also the disaster of Dunkirk if they hadn't betrayed Poland in 1939. This betrayal of Poland in 1939 was not only dishonest but it was also a military stupidity of truly monumental dimensions. The opportunity to fight a brief, localized war against Germany was therefore lost in September 1939. In hindsight, also lost were the opportunities to save millions of lives and to have prevented the creation of conditions that led to the Cold War. As General Ironside the Chief of the British General Staff stated in 1945, after much of Europe was in ruins and 50 million have died, "Militarily we should have gone all out against the German the minute Germans invaded Poland. ... We did not ... And so we missed the strategical advantage of the Germans being engaged in the East. We thought completely defensively and of ourselves. After the war German military commander Alfred Jodl said that "if we did not collapse already in the year 1939 that was due only to the fact that during the Polish campaign, the approximately 110 French and British divisions in the West were held completely inactive against the 23 German divisions." German General Siegfried Westphal stated that if the French had attacked in full force in September 1939 the German army "could only have held out for one or two weeks." Franz Halder Chief of the German General Staff of the Army documents this fact in his war diary. "The Wehrmacht had been on the verge of a military logistical catastrophe in the Polish campaign. The happy ending after a few weeks saved her from having to stop the fight because of insufficient ammunition." For all that reasons the Germans had lost the war because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war! The French and British would only have had to attack massively in the West as agreed and the war would have ended quickly with a victory for Poland, France and the British! But instead of massively attacking as was agreed, they betrayed Poland and holed up cowardly in the bunkers. Instead of attacking, they did the cowardly so-called Phoney War. In 1939 there was a good opportunity for a relatively quick victory against Germany. Because the Germans were too weak for a two-front war. For victory over Germany the British and French should have only acted according to the plan worked out with Poland for the event of a German raid on Poland. Three tactical main actions in the event of a German-Polish war contained the agreements with the British and French: 1. France immediately carries out an air campaign according to a pre-determined plan. 2. As soon as part of the French troops are ready (on the third day or so), France will progressively launch offensive actions with limited targets. 3. As soon as the main effort of Germany was directed against Poland, no later than 15 days after the German attack France with British support would begin with the bulk of its troops an offensive action against Germany. If, according to this plan the British and French had massively attacked the Germans in the west the victory would be certain because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war. But instead Poland was betrayed!
@samfisher23066 жыл бұрын
What a great actor. I was finding it hard to believe it was Gary in this movie. Method Acting on a whole new level imo
@AlbertRamizq6 жыл бұрын
It wasn't method acting.
@timothyhouse16226 жыл бұрын
Alberto Ramizq it was "acting" and Oldman is one of the best. You just have to watch Bram Stoker's Dracula to see that.
@DC-zi6se4 жыл бұрын
Gary isn't a method actor. He belongs to the very rare breed of actors like Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix.
@aydinzirh55104 жыл бұрын
Method acting is widely known as being your character 24/7. However method acting is actually just using real memories to trigger your emotions rather than made up memories. So it is very very common for actors to be “method” - “method acting” is what people think DDL does.
@Tails72124 жыл бұрын
Gary Oldman himself has said he's never really been in a method actor. Other actors often say he'll break into song and dance or joke around between takes, going right back into being himself
@ArcangelGamingEntertainment6 жыл бұрын
Absolutely fantastic film. Churchill did all he could to save the free world.
@Infernal4606 жыл бұрын
Not as good as Dunkirk.
@ArcangelGamingEntertainment6 жыл бұрын
Oh my boy! Would never argue that, but a fantastic partner film to see along side it
@swarajbose5626 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile killed MILLION in INDIA
@joshblair37456 жыл бұрын
indian oh shut up.
@JohnGoundry6 жыл бұрын
indian think you would have preferred Nazi rule?
@DevSolar2 жыл бұрын
0:55 -- And this right here was what Hitler was hoping for all along: Strong-arming Britain out of the war. No naval blockade, no involvement of the USA, no entanglements with the British in North Africa, the Balkans, Greece, or Crete, both the Marine Nationale and the Regia Marina intact instead of sunk at Mers-el-Kébir and Taranto respectively... and suddenly the idea of Germany managing to defeat Soviet Russia by the end of 1941 does not look *that* far-fetched anymore.
@leshmahagow3645 жыл бұрын
Do you notice how the Navy officers always look chilled. 🤔 Because they know ... dispute the drama They'll win
@ccg86585 жыл бұрын
@Les H Mahagow "It takes 3 years to build a ship but 300 years to build a tradition" (Mountbatten I believe, in reply when asked why RN vessels ALWAYS engaged the enemy more closely, whatever the odds).
@joshuagrover7954 жыл бұрын
@@ccg8658 Admiral Andrew Cunningham (1883 - 1963)
@Insperato623 жыл бұрын
Don't forget the Merchant Navy. Look up Operation Pedestal. When the broken backed 'Ohio' crawled in to Valletta the Royal Navy Commander in Malta insisted on giving the merchantmen a salute.
@thomast85393 жыл бұрын
The RN was not so chilled when the Bismarck sunk the Hood. They ended up putting everything available into harm's way to secure a victory over that menace.
@daneelolivaw6022 жыл бұрын
G E T R E K T Big Daddy USA, didn't enter the war for anothe eighteen months or more after this event, and Bid Daddy USA had a much SMALLER NAVY than the U.K. until 1942. And then the U.S. only entered the war because if Britain had fallen the U.S. would have had enemies on both sides of their coast. COWARDS?, Britain and the Commonwealth were fighting on their own since 1939. What a disgusting Coward you must be.
@veskovarbanov6 жыл бұрын
"It is the reason I sit in this chair" wow
@drake1283 жыл бұрын
I watched this knowing my Great Grandfather Walter Drake was at Dunkirk waiting for rescue, i willed them on forgetting I was watching a film. My sons existence is through this sacrifice and I'm forever thankful.
@jpserret14 жыл бұрын
Gary Oldman, brilliant in every role he does.
@realar4 жыл бұрын
Even as a freaking peacock.
@jcrossan13515 жыл бұрын
Fantastic man I am so proud that he served for out country in the most devastating war in the history of our planet may god rest his soul
@lennycam17756 жыл бұрын
Churchill saw right through halifaxes tricks
@Grandmaster_Dragonborn3 жыл бұрын
1:22 There’s just something so satisfying about Churchill of all people calling Hitler a maniac.
@sAmpY_wAmpy3 жыл бұрын
Can we just take a minute to appreciate Gary Oldman's impression of Churchill's speech? Like he's managed to find a middle ground between a coherent English accent and Churchill's speech impediment lol it's great.
@GreatPolishWingedHussars Жыл бұрын
They wouldn't have had this darkest hour and also the disaster of Dunkirk if they hadn't betrayed Poland in 1939. This betrayal of Poland in 1939 was not only dishonest but it was also a military stupidity of truly monumental dimensions. The opportunity to fight a brief, localized war against Germany was therefore lost in September 1939. In hindsight, also lost were the opportunities to save millions of lives and to have prevented the creation of conditions that led to the Cold War. As General Ironside the Chief of the British General Staff stated in 1945, after much of Europe was in ruins and 50 million have died, "Militarily we should have gone all out against the German the minute Germans invaded Poland. ... We did not ... And so we missed the strategical advantage of the Germans being engaged in the East. We thought completely defensively and of ourselves. After the war German military commander Alfred Jodl said that "if we did not collapse already in the year 1939 that was due only to the fact that during the Polish campaign, the approximately 110 French and British divisions in the West were held completely inactive against the 23 German divisions." German General Siegfried Westphal stated that if the French had attacked in full force in September 1939 the German army "could only have held out for one or two weeks." Franz Halder Chief of the German General Staff of the Army documents this fact in his war diary. "The Wehrmacht had been on the verge of a military logistical catastrophe in the Polish campaign. The happy ending after a few weeks saved her from having to stop the fight because of insufficient ammunition." For all that reasons the Germans had lost the war because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war! The French and British would only have had to attack massively in the West as agreed and the war would have ended quickly with a victory for Poland, France and the British! But instead of massively attacking as was agreed, they betrayed Poland and holed up cowardly in the bunkers. Instead of attacking, they did the cowardly so-called Phoney War. In 1939 there was a good opportunity for a relatively quick victory against Germany. Because the Germans were too weak for a two-front war. For victory over Germany the British and French should have only acted according to the plan worked out with Poland for the event of a German raid on Poland. Three tactical main actions in the event of a German-Polish war contained the agreements with the British and French: 1. France immediately carries out an air campaign according to a pre-determined plan. 2. As soon as part of the French troops are ready (on the third day or so), France will progressively launch offensive actions with limited targets. 3. As soon as the main effort of Germany was directed against Poland, no later than 15 days after the German attack France with British support would begin with the bulk of its troops an offensive action against Germany. If, according to this plan the British and French had massively attacked the Germans in the west the victory would be certain because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war. But instead Poland was betrayed!
@TheAwesomeDarkNinja5 жыл бұрын
Has someone spliced Darkest Hour and Dunkirk yet?
@lost71494 жыл бұрын
Yes
@joemckim11834 жыл бұрын
You don't really need to splice them together. Just watch Darkest Hour then watch Dunkirk. They're essentially two parts of the same story.
@infinitepowerTF4 жыл бұрын
@@joemckim1183 Exactly 👍.
@BritishBriggsy4 жыл бұрын
Such a powerful scene - What fantastic triumphs Churchill ensured.
@harrypalmer88082 жыл бұрын
This War Room still exists, practically as it was left at the end of WW2. It is a simple room underneath a Government Office in Whitehall (i.e. it isn't an underground bunker). The room is "tended" by the Imperial War Museum. On a documentary about "underground London" a curator showed the narrator of the programme Churchill's chair. On the right-hand armrest there is a round dent caused by Churchill hammering his signet ring into it. On the left-hand armrest there is a half-moon shape where he dug his fingernail. Difficult days.....
@TreeckoBro4 жыл бұрын
What I would give for a supercut of Dunkirk that cuts to the political side with Darkest Hour.
@dlarge65024 жыл бұрын
I was thinking that as I watched this film!
@ronaldmcdonald28173 жыл бұрын
It’s actually been made. It’s called finest hour and its available.
@DinoJake Жыл бұрын
Remember - this was back in 1940. Well before anyone outside of Germany knew about the Holocaust and the true scope of Hitler's madness. As far as Hallifax and Chamberlain knew, Hitler was just another dime-a-dozen conqueror - ambitious and bloodthirsty, yes, but surely reasonable enough to accept terms of surrender. Churchill was one of the few who saw right away what Hitler really was, and knew that to surrender to him was to surrender to death. EDIT: I have recently been informed that the Holocaust didn't actually begin until AFTER 1940, so I hereby stand corrected.
@tallesttreeintheforest7 ай бұрын
no one in germany knew it, because it had not started yet. everything related to what is known as the holocaust started after this event.
@johnmartlew58974 жыл бұрын
The only reason anyone can claim to have won that war is because Churchill didn’t lose it in ‘39-‘40. I believe he is the greatest statesman of modern history.
@Larrikins544 жыл бұрын
Spot on. He didn't lose it.
@trentinfield79034 жыл бұрын
I disagree. He had tremendous flaws. But he had the biggest balls. People drastically underestimate the preparations and triumph FDR directed and finessed.
@joemckim11834 жыл бұрын
The US invasion of Europe would've never worked if they didn't have Great Britain as a staging ground for D-Day. If Halifax had his way US would've had a much harder time getting into Europe. With the Germans not having to fight a 2 front war in Europe they could've totally focused on invading Russia.
@trentinfield79034 жыл бұрын
Joe McKim try this. Totally synchronized, unthinkable total Nuclear strike. 1945..
@joemckim11834 жыл бұрын
@@trentinfield7903 You don't want to win the entire war based on nuclear weapons. I mean at least when we used it on Japan they were on the brink of defeat but were too stubborn to give up. The nuclear weapons more or less just convinced them to finally throw in the towel. And the nuclear weapons of the time they had to be dropped from a bomber plane. Japan was an island nation so you didn't have to fly that far into occupied territory to drop the bombs. But do you think that in 1945 they would've been able to protect a bomber all the way to Germany through occupied territory without the bomber getting shot out of the air ?
@nodinitiative6 жыл бұрын
And of course, only Stannis dared to challenge Churchill and only Stannis did not want to sacrifice 4000 good men in a needless slaughter.
@Schwedeballz6 жыл бұрын
nodinitiative no he did that at the blackwater.
@rajamufti66986 жыл бұрын
and don't forget of the attempt of boltons
@iratepirate38966 жыл бұрын
He only needed twenty good men.
@OmegaTrooper6 жыл бұрын
He is the One True King
@jovalin59396 жыл бұрын
Stannis wouldnt have considered peace talks with Hitler.
@stevenpeeven31692 жыл бұрын
It was nice of Churchill to let in a cameraman to film this briefing for us all to see decades later
@Feroxing122 жыл бұрын
you can find original minutes from these 1940 war cabinet meetings.
@sempermilites875 жыл бұрын
That music that lightly starts playing at 1:58.....really makes the rest of this scene shine so well. It shows how high the military and political stakes were for Churchill. EDIT: YES! Just found out what song that was. It's called "History Is Listening," and damn is it good!
@johnbanks47614 жыл бұрын
the only one that had the spine, the resolve, the determination to do what needed to be done
@sjr999r2 жыл бұрын
Watched this in the cinema…..a truly epic film. Gary oldman is masterful
@henrikknightingale4 жыл бұрын
And today they wanna tear his statue down. This man saved Europe
@josefstalin33944 жыл бұрын
Hey I saved Russia and people did the same to me
@josefstalin33944 жыл бұрын
@D. K. No from someone that openly wanted to exterminate every slav
@josefstalin33944 жыл бұрын
@D. K. The Soviets didn't do a racially motivated genocide nor wanted to. They took down the Polish army, took down the fascists, took down the capitalists, but at no point did they want to exterminate a race
@travisbickle43603 жыл бұрын
Soviets and US saved Europe. Otherwise Churchill was screwed. Also they forced Britain to give up its Colonies
@mine91203 жыл бұрын
@@travisbickle4360 To be fair, the brits did a fair bit themselves almost on par with what the US did. For example, they did a great job in Africa fighting the Italians and Germans. And they also played a major part of holding the Japanese in Asia. Also british and Canadian forces actually outnumbered American troops on D day.
@gamma4053 Жыл бұрын
This is Churchill's 'Der Untergang' scene
@dc42966 жыл бұрын
Stannis considering peace talks ? That's unheard of !
@alexrobert20003 жыл бұрын
“ Victory cannot be achieved without sacrifice Mason” Viktor Reznov- voiced by Gary Oldman who also played Winston Churchill in this
@jonnnyren62455 жыл бұрын
1:38-1:44 oh my Gary Leonard Oldman what brilliance you have bestowed.
@DFD5423 жыл бұрын
"I take full responsibility" Imagine hearing that in modern British politics
@DFD5422 жыл бұрын
@G E T R E K T I was really talking about the words not the person saying it. I don't think he has no.
@jasonjones53575 жыл бұрын
What a man and thank god he did what he did
@ParabellumStoria4 жыл бұрын
As Winston said after the Munich conference: We could have chosen between shame or war, you chose shame and got war.
@PrimalElf Жыл бұрын
One of the greatest performence's of all time Thank you Gary Oldman and Joe Wright
@dougbodenhamer9391 Жыл бұрын
Thank the good lord for Winston Churchill.
@harshgorasia65016 жыл бұрын
So interesting how the actor playing Halifax also played the painter who was commissioned to do a portrait of Winston Churchill played by John Lithgow in The Crown TV Show. Pretty sure it was in the same year too, both amazing performances and to me Lithgow portrayed an aging Churchill amazingly
@tmb4466225 жыл бұрын
Gary brought his A game as always in this movie but in this movie, his acting is on a whole other level.
@zekeedwards79042 жыл бұрын
Oldman is an absolute masterclass of acting I have no words on how good he is
@spinlok39435 ай бұрын
I love how 50% of Stephen Dillane's acting career involves being yelled at by Winston Churchill.
@ghost73443 жыл бұрын
Love at 2:05 how he started putting the question, due to the "historian noter" writing every words that was spoken in that room, in order to turn the people against him.
@jarredkennedy61315 жыл бұрын
As Joey Tribbiani would say: "You're spittin' all over me, man!"
@alanbobbymcguire50992 жыл бұрын
The reason behind this scene in all its dignity. Is the reason I can comment 78 years later from my front living room in Edinburgh.
@samkresil60116 жыл бұрын
This is the clip I ALWAYS watch from the trailer and it stuck in my head for a while and it was truly brought out.
@helloha45525 жыл бұрын
me too
@richardmelvin38003 жыл бұрын
Never forget the british and french soldiers who thought to the end at calais to help evacuate Dunkirk. They are always overlooked in the story of Dunkirk.
@Oldag752 жыл бұрын
Gary Oldman was... PERFECT.
@gasket19664 жыл бұрын
When everyone wanted to make a deal with the ememy 1 man stood up and said hell noo
@robertstraw98815 жыл бұрын
Ricky Gervais was offered the role of Churchill before Gary Oldman. Can we have a comedy version of darkest hour with Churchill in his chair “vis a vis, yeah, I can win this war AKA for you.”
@scotthamp3843 жыл бұрын
I need to watch this all the way. This clip definitely proves that Gary Oldman was good as Churchill
@sithvsjedi9696 Жыл бұрын
" 01:38 "Really! Yes sir! It is the rrrr..reason I sit in this chair!" 🤣😅. Amazing. What a moment
@wildgoose59644 жыл бұрын
A masterclass in acting by all concerned.
@chrisnasif41562 жыл бұрын
Gary Oldman truly is the Winston Churchill of the acting world.
@jjrj85684 жыл бұрын
For the record, Churchill wanted the Gallipoli campaign to be a FULLY naval campaign, with all guns blazing, utterly destroying the straits' defenses all the way up to Istanbul, not a messy land invasion; he was largely unsupported and ignored, and look how that went, utter defeat and shame by Dec-Jan 15/16
@englishandturkce45134 жыл бұрын
@JJRJ 85 My second country is Turkey and even though I’m mostly Turkish and Churchill tried to knock us Ottoman Turks out of the war, I know that Churchill was inexperienced at the time and when in WW2, I see him as the saviour of the world because this time, he knew what to do as he learnt from his mistakes in mid-1915-Early 1916 of the Gallipoli Campaign!
@LeathanL5 жыл бұрын
Stephen Dillane deserves an Oscar for all the work he did replacing his "R"s with "W"s. "Pwime Ministah...I have Weservations". @:40.
@Nounismisation5 жыл бұрын
Bloody hell! Imagine having to make that sort of decision.
@mrblack8884 жыл бұрын
It's really a very easy decision, if the sacrifice of 4000 will get you 50,000 of your men back then there is nothing to decide. In the event it got back more than 200,000.
@ArtyFire1184 жыл бұрын
@@mrblack888 Over 300,000 made it back. To me. hell of a damn victory right there
@keithrose69313 жыл бұрын
@@mrblack888 50 thousand people maimed or killed is not an "easy decision " . Logical NOT easy .
@richardhall98152 жыл бұрын
Chamberlain and Halifax were such defeatist snobs (whose very actions prior to the war led to the very situation they now found themselves in). When the next boat arrived from Dunkirk, they should've packed the two of them on it on its way back to Dunkirk, dropped them off there and left them there. It would've done the Empire a great service.
@landsea73322 жыл бұрын
The Munich Crisis has been heavily debated . If you look at military spending , Hitler started spending in 1933 , while Britain didn't start spending until 1936 . As kiwi fighter pilot Alan Deere said , thank goodness Chamberlain gave us a year to equip with spitfires , otherwise we'd be flying gloster gladiators . There is a growing consensus that Chamberlain was buying time for Britain to rearm . . Had Britain and France gone to war in support of Czechoslovakia in 1938 , the Luftwaffe would have gained air superiority within days .
@ryangreco82663 жыл бұрын
Halifax was the NECESSARY reason. A North Star to Churchill at times like this. Remember what was at stake when we didn’t know the outcome of world war 2. How clean the air must be from the height of armchair historians who know the outcome, but no say in how it was achieved. 😓
@nickn83024 жыл бұрын
Look at the subtle power move at 1:12 when Winston puts his hands on his hips, flaring his elbows and raising his shoulders! Great attention to detail.
@DylanTreadway565 жыл бұрын
1:37 “thousands”
@brfreitas113 жыл бұрын
01:38 If you close your eyes, you can still hear a bit of Reznov in him
@Hugging_Cactus3 жыл бұрын
the movie is remarkably well done. every time i watch, i catch something new.
@MD71061 Жыл бұрын
My father was one if those soldiers in Calais but he was "luckly" enough to survive the never ending brutal German onslaugt and became a POW. When he got home and recieve his medals for his service, he threw them on the ground when he recived them in the ceremony and told the heirarcy officers - "you lets us all down" . Lucky his sister was there to pick them off the ground as he walked out. I still have those medals.
@davidpierce26904 жыл бұрын
I believe Churchill never believe in peace with Germany this is the one thing that really annoys me with this movie. Churchill saw that this was not just a fight for the survival of Britain but the future of the world
@simonlevy21544 жыл бұрын
The British were waiting for the Americans to join the war and needed time to build up their forces.
@rosesprog17223 жыл бұрын
“Germany's unforgivable crime before WW2 was its attempt to loosen its economy out of the world trade system and to build up its own exchange system from which the world finance couldn't profit anymore. We butchered the wrong pig.” - Winston Churchill, Bern, 1960
@shootybaking6 жыл бұрын
Please tell me he won an award? I would have followed him to death back then. Just a beautiful performance.
@HPmob4203 жыл бұрын
Halifax had a valid point but Churchill was 100% right and later justified in this debate
@silasleal6464 жыл бұрын
I SIT IN THIS CHAAAAAAAAAIR
@taylorgoetz76042 жыл бұрын
Cher
@ohpatriote56223 жыл бұрын
General Georg von Küchler, commander of the XVIIIth army of the Wehrmacht, entirely engaged around Dunkirk, this is taken from his war diary: "Despite our overwhelming superiority in men and hardware numbers, the french troops are counter-attacking in several places. I can't understand how those soldiers, sometimes fighting at one versus ten (or even one versus thirty in some areas), can find enough strength to assault us: this is simply amazing ! I see in those french soldiers the same energy than with the veterans of Verdun in 1916. For several days now, hundreds of bombers and guns are pounding the french defence. But, it's always the same thing: our infantry and panzers can't break through, despite some local and ephemeral successes. The french high command has very smartly set up his troops and artillery. I fear that the Dunkirk operation could be a failure for all of us: almost all the BEC and the biggest part of the french 1st Army will escape, because a few thousands of braves block the path to the sea. That's distressing, but that's it ! Dunkirk brings the proof that the french soldier is one of the best in the world. The french artillery, already dreaded in 1914, demonstrates once more its efficiency. Our losses are terrifying: numerous battallions have lost 60% of their men, sometimes even more ! By resisting ten days or more to our much bigger forces, the french army has accomplished, in Dunkirk, a superb achievement that you must pay tribute to. They have certainly saved Great-Britain from the defeat, by allowing the british professional army to reach the british coast." - General Franz Halder's diary, one of the chief of staff of the Wehrmacht: "May 18th 1940: the Führer still worries a lot about the southern flank. he's furious and claims that we take the best path to make the whole campaign fail ! The french troops never stops counter-attacking. May 21st 1940: that day starts in an extremely tense atmosphere: reports indicates a serious pressure on the northern flank of the IVth army. The VIth army faces a solid front. May 22nd 1940: our tanks, that are currently fighting in the south, have met a powerful enemy. Our panzerdivisionen suffer too many losses and attack without being required to. Stress is growing. May 23rd 1940: the losses for the tanks of our ten panzerdivisionen reach 50% ! The french resistance is fierce." - So what more beautiful homage than to receive it from its adversaries ... As for that of his so-called English or American allies ... like French : better not to talk about
@demonprinces172 жыл бұрын
By the time they started fighting already lost
@daneelolivaw6022 жыл бұрын
Oh Patriote I noticed that you failed to mention that over 40 thousand British troops remained behind while helping the French defend the beaches. You also failed to mention that of the 338,000 troops that were saved, around 120,000 were FRENCH. You also failed to mention that after just a few days, around 100,000 of those French troops returned to France, and surrendered, leaving just a few thousand brave French men to stay in Britain and help with the fight to free France.
@garretteales16072 жыл бұрын
Churchill absolutely hated Hitler. And the world was saved because of it.
@denisescutt18652 жыл бұрын
He had the weight of the world on his shoulders. Apparently he often broke down in private in the company of his dear wife Clemmie . Clementine.
@CactusCowboyDan2 жыл бұрын
Tribes in South Africa hearing about Churchill holding the weight of the world: “……..who?”
@TheFacefinder6 жыл бұрын
there are men who are willing to ensure liberty, regardless.
@coreymaestro3 жыл бұрын
How did they get Winston to play this part I thought he was dead
@samosullivan17442 жыл бұрын
The music in this is spine-tingling! Dario Marianelli is a genius!
@seangriffin20534 жыл бұрын
Churchill was willing to stay in the fight long before the U.S. joined the Allied forces. That is the type of leader a country needs.
@Larrikins544 жыл бұрын
@steve gale Nothing like a good conspiracy theory. Clark Field, Kota Baru Hong Kong - all on the same Japanese Op Order.
@pepepotamo56345 жыл бұрын
My god, what temper had this Churchill.
@robertbendix4814 Жыл бұрын
This demonstrated that Churchill had the measure of Hitler when Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax didn't. Hitler wouldn't have adhered to an agreement. He broke the Munich Agreement and the agreement he signed with Stalin. Moreover, the evacuation of Dunkirk led to D-Day because without the British army still being strong, they'd never have got into a position to start reclaiming Europe from Germany.
@bakewell72845 жыл бұрын
BOY! how we need a man like this today in 2018!
@hinayuzuna58484 жыл бұрын
He would Despise England today
@landsea73322 жыл бұрын
Who could have imagined , that when you wrote this in 2018 , that a pandemic would hit , and that with all the pandemic politics , we need him even more in 2022 ? .
@marshmallow32514 жыл бұрын
Chamberlain looks really sick in this scene
@joshuagrover7954 жыл бұрын
Chamberlain at this point in May 1940 was dying from cancer, he would pass away in November 1940, that why he looks frail.
@rolfagten8572 жыл бұрын
This Churchill looks a bit too much like a Monty python act that seems to have failed. Razzie award for actor Oldman is in place.
@flakafazliu47765 жыл бұрын
That guy has a tough job. Writing what they are saying with pencil and paper
@nevanmasterson465 жыл бұрын
must have been so hard to keep up.
@meestirbig30832 жыл бұрын
This is just what is happening today. A bunch of bureaucrats sitting around a table wailing about what to do about Ukraine. Just how NOT to get involved. What's worse? They had Churchill and we have absolutely NOTHING. Though, I should amend that statement. Do you think that in 80 years there would be a movie made about this situation. They could have an actress portray Kamala. She could say something like: "Ukraine is a country in Europe. Russia is a larger Country. Russia invaded a smaller country, which is not right and we must do what we are doing...oh you know the rest!
@mikeevans58106 жыл бұрын
had to love Winnie's backbone when facing utter annihilation, he was great, yes, really
@auser23862 жыл бұрын
I like the lighting. Nobody uses those annoying RGB lights or 6500k.
@importantname6 жыл бұрын
stop surrending - stop surrendering - stop surrendering hit back, attack, punch them, hit them, hit back. never surrender - as the contemplation of surrender leads to further surrender, until ultimate surrender and slavery
@rascallyrabbit7175 жыл бұрын
David you are so right. As a Canadian I agree with your ideology and will stand against tyranny when you need us. Victory or death; there can be no compromise with evil.