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Darkest Hour is a 2017 British war drama biographical film about Winston Churchill, played by Gary Oldman, in his early days as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War and the May 1940 war cabinet crisis, depicting his refusal to seek a peace treaty with Nazi Germany amid their advance into Western Europe.
Dec 22, 2017 · Darkest Hour: Directed by Joe Wright. With Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn, Lily James. In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.
- (221K)
- Drama, War
- Joe Wright
- 2017-12-22
The fate of Western Europe hangs on Winston Churchill in the early days of World War II. The newly appointed British prime minister must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler or fight on...
- (313)
- Joe Wright
- PG-13
- Gary Oldman
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Nov 22, 2017 · It's true that Churchill wasn't the obvious choice for Prime Minister in 1940—and here's the real history behind the movie Darkest Hour.
On 25th May, against the advice of the War Cabinet, Churchill orders Brigadier Claude Nicholson (Richard Glove) in Calais to lead the 30th Infantry Brigade (of 4000 men) in a suicide attack to distract the enemy while the soldiers at Dunkirk are evacuated in Operation Dynamo.
Nov 22, 2017 · The action takes place from May 8 to June 4, 1940 (the film regularly slams the dates at us in big block letters), and is framed by two important addresses in the House of Commons, the “Norway Debate” and Churchill’s rousing, epochal “We shall fight them on the beaches” speech.
Nov 21, 2017 · In June 1940, a flotilla of civilian boats rescued thousands of British troops from a beach in northern France, and Winston Churchill, one of the men responsible for the rescue, went on...
