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Nov 22, 2017 · 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. Joe Wright. Director. Anthony McCarten.
Jan 12, 2023 · In this gripping day-by-day, often hour-by-hour account of how a sometimes uncertain Churchill turned Britain around, the celebrated BAFTA-winning writer Anthony McCarten exposes sides of the great man never seen before.
Darkest Hour. 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...
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- History, Drama, Biography, War
- PG-13
- Elizabeth Layton's Employment
- The Timing of The Dunkirk Speech
- The Role of Clement Attlee and The Labour Party
- The Underground War Rooms Were Used Later
- The Dunkirk Speech Wasn’T Broadcast on Radio
- The Call with Roosevelt Was A Letter
- Churchill Wasn’T That Indecisive
- Elizabeth Layton’s Brother and Accent
- Churchill's Subway Ride Was Made Up
Churchill's personal secretary Elizabeth Layton is a crucial character in the movie and is constantly shown to be adjusting to the whims and fancies of her hot-headed employer. However, a major Darkest Hour change is with regard to the chronology of her employment. As declared in her 1958 memoir Mr. Churchill’s Secretary, Layton establishes that sh...
Operation Dynamo was the name given to the British effort to evacuate troops from the beaches of Dunkirk. Along with releases like Dunkirk and Their Finest, Darkest Hour completed 2017’s unofficial Dunkirk trilogy. When Operation Dynamo concluded on 4 June 1940, Churchill delivered one of his greatest speeches on the same day (as per BBC). Addressi...
A noteworthy Darkest Hour change from actual history is the underrepresentation of the Labour Party. While the Conservative Churchill did protest against a peace treaty with Germany, the anti-Nazi sentiments echoed within the Labour parliamentarians like Clement Attlee were also crucial. Darkest Hour deserves credit for accurately portraying the Co...
Located near the Parliament were underground bunkers simply known as Underground War Rooms. Darkest Hour features such rooms where Churchill and his advisers discuss war strategies. While these rooms did exist to double as map rooms and air-raid shelters, they couldn’t have been used in May 1940 as the movie shows. Darkest Hour historical adviser P...
In Darkest Hour, Churchill’s “We shall fight on the beaches” speech creates an uproar in the Parliament and even draws emotional reactions from his wife Clementine Churchill, King George VI, and the British populace when it is heard on the radio. It is a glaring historical inaccuracy as radio broadcasts from the Parliament started only from the 197...
Many of the best World War II movies dramatize wartime action but Darkest Hour gets into the strategy and diplomacy that went behind the battles. Facing pressure from his own Cabinet and the rest of the Allied powers, Churchill is even shown to have a phone call with then-American President Franklin D Roosevelt where he begs him for loaning out mil...
Darkest Hour paints Churchill as an indecisive leader conflicted between continuing the British war effort or entering a deal with the Germans. However, the truth is that Churchill was way more determined in his resolve to not negotiate with the enemy. While May 1940 in the British Parliament was indeed characterized by chaos as shown in the movie,...
In the movie, Churchill’s personal secretary tells him that her brother died during a war campaign in Dunkirk. The scene is clearly played out for emotional purposes as the death is fabricated. In her book Mr. Churchill’s Secretary, Layton did mention her brother Michael as a pilot during World War II but didn’t write about any such death. While ma...
A particularly dramatic scene from Darkest Hour finds the cigar-smoking Prime Minister taking the London Underground for the first time. Still conflicted over his decision not to surrender to Germany, Churchill asks the startled passengers on the train about what they feel. His compatriots express their desire to still fight Hitler. This scene is p...
It took McCarten awhile before he felt he was ready to dramatize the phenomenal story of Churchill’s own doubts about a premature peace treaty with Nazis and Fascists which would place Great Britain at the vanguard of leading allied forces to victory.
Dec 26, 2017 · By Jeremy Kay 26 December 2017. Darkest Hour depicts Winston Churchill in the crucial weeks that defined him as a wartime leader. Jeremy Kay talks to writer-producer Anthony McCarten and...
Oct 7, 2017 · For McCarten, the film was a chance to pay homage to a great British orator. “I’ve always had on my shelves a series of books,” he explained, “and I’ve always loved speeches and the art ...
