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La Guerre selon Churchill

Original title: Churchill at War
  • TV Mini Series
  • 2024
  • TV-14
  • 1h
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
2.1K
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La Guerre selon Churchill (2024)
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Churchill's pivotal leadership role during WWII, his wartime strategy, and the life events that shaped him as a paramount figure of the era, told through his own words.Churchill's pivotal leadership role during WWII, his wartime strategy, and the life events that shaped him as a paramount figure of the era, told through his own words.Churchill's pivotal leadership role during WWII, his wartime strategy, and the life events that shaped him as a paramount figure of the era, told through his own words.

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    • Langley Kirkwood
    • Christian McKay
    • George W. Bush
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    • Stars
      • Langley Kirkwood
      • Christian McKay
      • George W. Bush
    • 28User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
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    Langley Kirkwood
    Langley Kirkwood
    • Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    Christian McKay
    Christian McKay
    • Winston Churchill
    George W. Bush
    George W. Bush
    • Self
    • 2024
    Dan Snow
    Dan Snow
    • Self - Historian
    • 2024
    Stephen Jennings
    Stephen Jennings
    • Frederick 'Prof' Lindemann
    Martin Munro
    Martin Munro
    • Frank Sawyers the Butler
    Rafe Soule
    Rafe Soule
    • Young Winston Churchill
    Deon Lotz
    Deon Lotz
    • Admiral Bertram Ramsay
    Martin Kluge
    Martin Kluge
    • Joseph Stalin
    Ethan Saunders
    Ethan Saunders
    • William Browne-Clayton
    Aubrey Shelton
    • Lord Edward Halifax
    Afua Hirsch
    Afua Hirsch
    • Self - Author
    • 2024
    Sarada Peri
    • Self…
    • 2024
    Chris van Rensburg
    Chris van Rensburg
    • Inspector Walter Thompson
    Jason K. Ralph
    • General Hastings 'Pug' Ismay
    Erica Wessels
    • Clementine Churchill
    Andrew Roberts
    • Self - Author
    • 2024
    Sonia Purnell
    Sonia Purnell
    • Self - Author
    • 2024
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    5holloway-sarahjane

    Could Have Been Better

    I'm interested in the real footage of the War and hearing the details of how Churchill lead Britain. I can do totally without the talking heads interrupting and giving completely pointless opinions, especially Boris Johnson and George W. Bush. Who thought that was a good idea?

    Neither of those belong in any piece about Churchill.

    I could do without any extras making statements about the obvious, it's a distraction and annoying. They should have had one narrator, seldom seen and it would have been much more tolerable. There are better documentaries but I would have found this one interesting if they'd left off the bad acting bits.
    7vangamer

    Not TV's Finest Hours

    Heavy on awkward recreations with actors but regrettably light on interesting historical detail. The main draw of this series is mainly some newly refreshed and colourized archival footage.

    The four episodes lean heavily on British and American political figures, including an Obama speech writer, President George W Bush and Prime Minister Boris Johnson - rather than on historical experts. Of course, this is consistent with the tone of an "approachable" and "greatest hits" approach to history documents. It's a decent introduction to Churchill and the period, but there's little to chew on.

    In just one example, the series correctly focuses on Churchill's obsessive quest to get the "New World" - America - fighting in the war. However, after showing Pearl Harbour, there's no mention that Herr Hitler foolishly declared war on the United States first - a key footnote that enabled Roosevelt to bypass Congressional wrangling.

    All too typically, with a laser focus on FDR and America, the series doesn't even mention the valuable support of Canada, Australia, India and other Commonwealth countries in helping keep the British Isles afloat.

    Also, it would have been fascinating to see some of Churchill's military interactions with his senior generals and commanders - and the kind of expectations he had on them - but this is out of the scope of this series.

    So while watchable, and crediting star Christian McKay for a solid job recreating Churchill's oratory, this offers a rather lightweight overview of what can be a very meaty subject.
    3twp-84487

    Not Necessary

    The letters and speeches by Churchill are interesting. But crowbarring in actors and scripted segments takes away from this series. Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but if I want to watch a fictionalized movie/play about Churchill, I can do that. But I don't want a supposed documentary to include fictionalized scenes (especially badly acted ones).

    There is so much to learn about Churchill and his motives from his speeches, letters, notes, etc, but it's completely worthless if you are including acted conversations based on a bad screenplay. I just don't understand why that is necessary.

    Just give me the facts in an interesting way and make a bad movie with the other parts.
    7Chabrolfan

    Jaunty rollercoaster ride through Churchill's war

    This is a brisk and thoroughly enjoyable summary of Churchill's achievements and failings, principally from the late 1930s to the end of the Second World War. The series doesn't shy away from Churchill's disastrous Gallipoli campaign, his enduring belief in the importance of the British Empire, his sidelining by Stalin and FDR and his controversial tactical decisions around the French naval fleet, but the overriding gist of the series is just how important the man was at a crucial point in world history.

    We are left under no doubt about how different, were it not for Churchill's tenacity [stubbornness?], sense of duty and extraordinary level of self-belief, the outcome of the war might have been. A failure on the part of the UK to withstand the Nazi invasion of Europe, could have led to permanent widespread European fascism. The talking heads who focus on Churchill's racism, never manage to outweigh the arguments for the good that he did.

    The format follows that of the BBC's superb (and superior) "The Rise of the Nazis", with a combination of reenactment and expert opinion. There are observations by a few big names like David Petraeus and George W Bush (...and Boris, obvs.), but where "The Rise of the Nazis" had insightful contributions by some of the world's leading academic experts on the subject, "Churchill at War" has generic telly-historian Dan Snow making points that could be picked up in a GCSE history book. We should be glad it wasn't Tony Robinson, I suppose.

    One of the strangest aspects of the series is the use of AI to generate Churchill's written comments into his spoken voice. I'm still undecided how convincing I found this.

    A shout-out really needs to go to actor Christian McKay, for playing Churchill in the reenactments; a perfectly judged performance mimicking the sound and behaviour of Churchill, without ever stepping over into pastiche.
    8ellismorton

    Almost brilliant

    I enjoyed the series while also recognising that it isn't everything that it could have been.

    In terms of narrative, it faithfully hits all the major plot points of the Second World War. Though the pundits and 'live action recreations' are sometimes a hit, sometimes a miss.

    The recolourised archival footage is truly spectacular. It brings the war from the myth of history to a lived human experience.

    This is particularly relevant now. Democratic decline is a rising tide. One that we are only beginning to wrestle with (even outside obvious examples). Appeasement in the face of imperialist aggression is spoken of as the lesser evil. These are dangerous waters and they are not new. History must be understood if it is not to be repeated.

    This is why I forgive the show for it's inclusion of politicians. Even those who probably have no right to be there.

    The link that it makes from the past to the present (aided through colour footage) is enough for me to view their inclusion as having value.

    Is the show a masterpiece? No. Did I enjoy it as someone with an interest in history. I did indeed.

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      Christian McKay who plays Churchill also plays Roosevelt in a documentary about FDR released in 2023 called FDR

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      • December 4, 2024 (France)
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