Winston Churchill
Birthday: 1874-11-30
Place of Birth: Blenheim, Oxfordshire, England
Biography: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.
Movies
Korea, A Hundred Years of War
A contemporary history of Korea(s) from a unique point of view that embraces the inner history of bo...
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The Arc de Triomphe: A Nation's Passion
The pride of Napoleon's victories, the Arc de Triomphe, whose first stone was laid in 1806 at the to...
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Laboratory Greece
A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the curr...
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Julie Andrews Forever
Julie Andrews starred in Hollywood productions that have become iconic movies, winning an Oscar for ...
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Reza Shah
The documentary "Reza Shah" begins with the rise of Reza Khan to power and looks at his reign from ...
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The Untold History Of The United States
Oliver Stone charts the history of the United States from the Second World War to the present....
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Laissez-faire
A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so pr...
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Return to Dresden
In 1945, Great Britain and the United States organized a bombing raid that devastated the ancient ci...
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Parsifal: The Hidden Causes of World War II
Based on Worldwide Defeat by Salvador Borrego, it exposes the forbidden side of history and reveals ...
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Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
The coronation of Elizabeth II as queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms took...
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Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
"Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the history of...
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Houndsditch Murderers
The Sidney Street siege. "HOUNDSITCH MURDERERS: THE GREAT ALIENS OUTRAGE AT MILE END SHEWING (sic) T...
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Battle of London
Coverage of the Siege of Sidney Street, 3 January 1911, including film of Winston Churchill witnessi...
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Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conques...
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A Jubilee Tribute to The Queen by The Prince of Wales
Marking the Diamond Jubilee (1952-2012) of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles shares his memories of...
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LOLA
Sussex, England, 1938. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Thomasina and Martha Hanbury, tw...
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All This and World War II
Peter Gabriel is among the rockstars performing the music of Lennon and McCartney against a montage ...
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The Debate Continues
This historic film documents the restoration of the House of Commons, which was severely damaged by ...
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Within These Walls: A Tour of the White House
A special that takes a look inside the White House....
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Forgotten Treasure
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short highlights the film preservation efforts of the Muse...
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Elizabeth: The Unseen Queen
The story of Queen Elizabeth II in her own words, featuring never-before-seen home movies....
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Hitler: A Career
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the T...
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Brexit
A look at the streets of London in 2016 with Churchill's speech on the importance of a unified Europ...
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Money, Fascism, and Some Sort of Acid
A collection of five short films tackling the military industrial complex, the rise of fascism, poli...
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'All the Winners' - And the Losers!
No fewer than five once or future prime ministers on show at the momentous 1923 election....
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The True Glory
A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage...
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Stalin: Man of Steel
Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted por...
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Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
A documentary about the influences on Tolkien, covering in brief his childhood and how he detested t...
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The Four Just Men
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of th...
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How to Be an Ex-Prime Minister
Michael Cockerell tells the story of how prime ministers have coped with life after Number Ten, afte...
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United We Stand
Using newsreel footage, this film reviews world events from the end of World War I to the American e...
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The Bloody Hundredth
Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and transforma...
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A Web of War
The stories of the battles that brought together a Polish cavalry officer, a Canadian captain, and a...
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Know Your Ally: Britain
Know Your Ally: Britain was a 45-minute propaganda film made in 1944. It was narrated by Walter Hust...
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The Battle of France
A montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940....
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The Guns of August
Traces the origins and actions of World War I, from the funeral of Britain's King Edward VII to the ...
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Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
A double portrait of two dictators who were thousands of miles apart but were constantly fixated on ...
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A Wall in Jerusalem
A brilliant documentary about the growth of Israel into the Jewish homeland. Seventy-three years of ...
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The King Who Fooled Hitler
In a tale of double agents and decoys, this documentary reveals, for the first time, the story of Ki...
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The Mistake that Killed Hitler
In April 1945, as Stalin's Red Army approach from the East and the Western Allied forces quickly app...
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Crimean Conference
The Crimean (Yalta) conference of the leaders of the three powers - allies in the Anti-Hitler coalit...
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Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
Documentary exploring the parallels between 'The Return of the King' and real events and people in h...
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The Marvellous World of Roald Dahl
Fighter pilot, inventor, spy - the life of Roald Dahl is often stranger than fiction. Through a vast...
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Backstage at the White House
This unique glimpse into the private lives of our Presidents and their families showcases some of th...
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The Aegean Tragedy
Documentary on the Greek history of the first half of the 20th century, from the Balkan wars until D...
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Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike
The second film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series. It introduces Germany as a nat...
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Agnelli
Documentary about the life of Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli, an influential Italian industrialist and pr...
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Truman
Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from sm...
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...
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The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill
Winston Churchill, one of the most revered men of the twentieth century. Adolf Hitler, one of the mo...
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Speeches That Shook the World
Speech-making is the art of persuasion. Well-honed rhetoric appeals not just to the mind, but to the...
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Schindler
The true story of German-Czech businessman Oskar Schindler (1908-74) as told by some of the Jews — m...
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Attack in the Pacific
Part of a a video series that documents the fighting between the United States and Imperial Japan du...
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The Hitler–Stalin Pact
How could Hitler and Stalin, sworn ideological enemies, come to a secret pact in 1939? The captivati...
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Desert Victory
A featureless land fit only for war, as the narrator, J. L. Hodson stated in the early scenes: "If w...
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Mission to Moscow
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to th...
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The Street Performers
This documentary-style short follows two impoverished teens performing on the streets of London in t...
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Battlefield Gender
Both a visit to a very peculiar exhibition at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Ger...
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Brexit: The Uncivil War
Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British...
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Storm Front in Mayo
Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day c...
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Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century
A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of E...
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When the Wind Blows
With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare ...
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I Betrayed Hitler
During the worst days of World War II, the British government asks the mathematician Alan Turing to ...
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1945: The Savage Peace
How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were atroc...
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The Phoney War
September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmac...
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Edward & George: Two Brothers, One Throne
The complex relationship between royal brothers Edward VIII and George VI, who were both at the hear...
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John Bull's Own Island
Made at the end of WWII, this documentary looks at Britain's post-war period. During a time of econo...
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The Corporation
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational mod...
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A Queen Is Crowned
A lavish documentary film of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation in 1953....
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The Great European Disaster Movie
2014-2015: 17. The Great European Disaster Movie Authored documentary by Italian director Annalisa ...
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4 Days in May
Germany, Baltic Sea coast, May 1945, a few days before the end of World War II. A small Soviet patro...
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FDR
Polio at age 39, president at age 50. Explore the public and private life of a determined man who st...
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Voices from the List
Based exclusively on testimonies of "Schindler Juden" from the Institute’s Visual History Archive, V...
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Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...
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Korea: The Never-Ending War
Shedding new light on a geopolitical hot spot, the film — written and produced by John Maggio and na...
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Soldier of Orange
The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...
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Genocide
The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism...
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Viceroy's House
In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its p...
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The Jack King Affair
England, 1940, during World War II. An MI5 officer, codenamed Jack King, infiltrates a network of co...
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Pearl Harbor
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...
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Filmmakers for the Prosecution
In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collec...
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Celsius 41.11
This film attempts to correct the record when it comes to the left's attacks on President Bush, 9/11...
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Devils Don't Dream!
Before his journey into exile Jacobo Arbenz, the overthrown President of Guatemala, is presented to ...
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The Astors: High Society
The very name conjures up images of the good life black tie affairs and high society balls. Yet thei...
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Challenging Churchill
Churchill, a name typically associated with braveness and altruism. Recently found evidence from Sov...
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Churchill: A Life: His Life & Great Speeches
This film covers the extraordinary life and great speeches of Winston Churchill that include the wor...
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Coup 53
Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed...
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The Downing Street Patient
Michael Cockerell presents this documentary on the health problems of Britain's Prime Ministers....
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The Extraordinary Seaman
Marooned sailors discover a World War II ship haunted by its late captain....
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Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.”...
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The False Promise of Advancement
Origin sticks like shit to your shoe! That's what Marlen Hobrack says, who grew up as a working-clas...
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Words for Battle
Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lin...
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The Civilian Serves
A silent short film promoting the United States Citizens Defense Corps, a group in which civilians s...
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No Hamburg, No Beatles
“We were born in Liverpool but grew up in Hamburg”, John Lennon once said. This feature documentary ...
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Songs for After a War
A particular reading of the hard years of famine, repression and censorship after the massacre of th...
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X-Day: The Invasion of Japan
By spring of 1942, Japan controlled the western Pacific, the Philippines, and large parts of Indochi...
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This was the MARY
Short 18 minute film about QM and her last Transatlantic voyage from New York to Southampton. Joan C...
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Britain and the Blitz
Documentary looking back at a Britain during the darkest days of WWII using stunning new archived fo...
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Atomic People
Combining personal accounts with archive footage, this film features the voices of some of the only ...
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Johnny Got His Gun
A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life ...
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1964: Brazil between weapons and books
We question the most unquestionable period in our history. The result was an international investiga...
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Carry On England
Captain S. Melly takes over as the new Commanding Officer at an experimental mixed sex air defence b...
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The Goebbels Experiment
The Nazi propaganda mastermind behind Hitler speaks in first person as actor Kenneth Branagh reads p...
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Battle for Warsaw
The tragic story of the 1944 Warsaw uprising is chronicled in this filmed record of that epic event....
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