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Churchill in Film and Video
Scaling Everest: Robert Hardy on Playing Churchill (Part 2)
05
Nov
2019
By T.S.R. HARDY CBE FSA
"Several times again I attempted to climb the peak. I came away from my mountain climbing with a little more understanding, perhaps a few more skills. But mostly I came away with a radiant and profound affection for the mountain himself. Playing him was one of the best things that has ever befallen me. I shall never look down from that peak—but as long as I live I shall delight in gazing upwards towards those towering rocks." - Robert Hardy
Scaling Everest: Robert Hardy on Playing Churchill (Part 1)
17
Oct
2019
By T.S.R HARDY CBE FSA
"My panic was genuine. I felt I had no qualifications whatever to attempt a Titan. Thoughts of the friendliness in Churchill’s voice fled. Robert Hardy was to climb Everest in everyday clothes with an Ordnance Map."
Young Winston and “My Early Life”
23
Apr
2019
“Mirrored in the Pool of England”: Churchill, Shakespeare, and Henry V
16
Apr
2019
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Richard Langworth looks at the importance of Shakespeare, especially "Henry V," on Churchill and his rhetoric during World War II.
Churchill and Alexander Korda
16
Apr
2019
1
Love Story: “Churchill’s Secret”
16
Sep
2016
1
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
PBS and ITV have succeeded where many failed. They offer here a Churchill documentary with a minimum of dramatic license, reasonably faithful to history (as we know it). "Churchill’s Secret" limns the pathos, humor, hope and trauma of a little-known episode: Churchill’s stroke on 23 June 1953, and his miraculous recovery—while for weeks his faithful lieutenants secretly ran the government. To paraphrase Dr. Johnson, the film is worth seeing, and worth going to see.
“Churchill: The Wilderness Years”: Winston is Back, 1939
08
Jul
2016
1
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Episode 8 of "The Wilderness Years" captures a dramatic scene from Churchill’s memoirs. Chamberlain, he wrote, “had scarcely ceased speaking when a strange, prolonged, wailing noise, afterwards to become familiar, broke upon the ear. My wife came into the room braced by the crisis [and] we made our way to the shelter assigned to us, armed with a bottle of brandy and other appropriate medical comforts.” There, to his astonishment, Churchill is cheered by Londoners.
“Churchill: The Wilderness Years”: Dismal Repetition of History
01
Jul
2016
“Churchill: The Wilderness Years”: Threat from the Air, 1935
22
Jun
2016
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Flying Peril: The threat of a German air force superior to Britain’s, denied for years by British leaders, proved only too true. This fifth episode of “The Wilderness Years” introduces two of the people who, at the risk of their careers, provided Churchill with secret information on German rearmament.
“Churchill: The Wilderness Years”: Meeting Hitler, 1932
16
Jun
2016
1