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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.
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.
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.
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...
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- History, Drama, Biography, War
- PG-13
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3K. Academy Award® winner Gary Oldman gives a “towering performance” (Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair) in acclaimed director Joe Wright’s soaring drama DARKEST HOUR. As Hitler’s...
Nov 21, 2017 · Directed by Joe Wright. Biography, Drama, History, War. PG-13. 2h 5m. By A.O. Scott. Nov. 21, 2017. In the late spring of 1940, German forces invaded Belgium and France and pushed most of the...
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.
FOCUS FEATURES presents a WORKING TITLE production. A thrilling and inspiring true story begins at the precipice of World War II as, within days of becoming ...
Nov 22, 2017 · During the early days of World War II, with the fall of France imminent, Britain faces its darkest hour as the threat of invasion looms. As the seemingly unstoppable Nazi forces advance, and with the Allied army cornered on the beaches of Dunkirk, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the leadership of the newly-appointed British Prime Minister ...
