Churchill and the Generals (1979)

Directed by

Alan Gibson

Genre

drama, history, war, tv movie

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

3h

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This television drama covers the years 1940 to 1945, showing Winston Churchill interacting with allied generals from inside the Cabinet Office and War Rooms. The story focuses on the tensions and relationships between Churchill and his military leaders.

historicaldramatictalkyintimatereflectiveearnestrestrainedconversational

What happens

Churchill and the Generals is a 1979 BBC television drama concerning the relationship between Winston Churchill and generals of the Allied forces, set in the Cabinet Office and War Rooms between 1940 and 1945. It was written by Ian Curteis (with Peter Young as military advisor). It was first broadcast on BBC2 on 23 September 1979, and repeated on BBC1 on 22 August 1981. It screened on 5 March 1981 in the United States. The Times television critic Michael Ratcliffe wrote: 'Churchill, though trivial, was intermittently moving and fun (alternative title: Punch in the Second World War?)' Timothy West won the John Logie Baird performance award (1980). He reprised the role of Churchill in The Last Bastion (1984) and Hiroshima (1995). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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