Under Anden Verdenskrig udpeger den britiske hær en gruppe kompetente soldater til at udføre en mission mod de nazistiske styrker bag fjendens linjer.

En sand historie om en hemmelig britisk organisation fra Anden Verdenskrig; Special Operations Executive. Grundlagt af Winston Churchill, var deres irregulære krigsførelse mod tyskerne med til at ændre krigens gang og affødte moderne hemmelige operationer.

Den engelske prins Bertie stammer, og det bliver et stort problem, da han i 1936 krones til konge. Storbritannien er på randen af krig, og landet har brug for et overhoved, der kan samle sit folk med inspirerende taler. Måske er der hjælp at hente hos talepædagogen Lionel Logue - en excentrisk australier med uortodokse behandlingsmetoder. Colin Firth's kongelige præstation udløste en Oscar, og der var også Oscars til 'Kongens store tale' for bedste film, instruktion og manuskript.

I 1943 udtænker den tyske efterretningstjeneste en plan om at kidnappe Winston Churchill, der skal tilbringe en weekend i en landsby i det østlige England. Faldskærmssoldaten Kurt Steiner sættes i spidsen for operationen.

Winston Churchill står over for et umuligt valg. Året er 1940, og den britiske statsmand er lige blevet udnævnt til premierminister. Situationen i Europa er desperat, og Hitlers tropper truer med at invadere Storbritannien. Skal Churchill forsøge at forhandle en fredsaftale på plads med Nazityskland? Eller skal briterne kæmpe videre i krigen mod forfærdelige odds?

Den britiske premierminister Winston Churchill får et slagtilfælde i sommeren 1953, det bliver holdt hemmeligt for resten af verden.

96 timer før invasionen af Normandiet, under anden verdenskrig, kæmper den britiske premierminister Winston Churchill med sine alvorlige forbehold med Operation Overlord og hans stadig mere marginaliserede rolle i krigsindsatsen.

Confronted with death, National Health Service founder Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan’s deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back through his life; from childhood to mining underground, Parliament and fights with Winston Churchill.

Winston Churchill, one of the most revered men of the twentieth century. Adolf Hitler, one of the most hated leaders in contemporary history. Between 1940 and 1945, these two enormously contradictory personalities faced each other in both politics and war. A clash of giants whose story begins in the trenches of the World War I and ends with the debacle of the World War II.

Den 10. maj 1940 invaderer Hitler Holland og Belgien. Samme dag bliver Winston Churchill udnævnt til britisk premierminister, og ikke mindst takket være hans lederskab lykkes det de allierede at vinde krigen. Churchills indsats under krigen gør ham til nationalhelt, men efter krigen må han se sin politiske magt svinde, mens hans ægteskab begynder at knage i fugerne.

A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.

Winston Churchill drømmer allerede i en ung alder om en politisk karriere - en ambition, han har arvet efter sin far, ministeren Randolph Churchill. Han indser, at en succesfuld militærkarriere kan være et vigtigt springbræt i den retning. Det bringer ham bl.a. til Indien, Sudan og Sydafrika, inden han vender tilbage til England og som 26-årig bliver valgt som konservativt medlem af Underhuset.

Two soldiers are thrown together and make their way through German-occupied Dunkirk. After several agonising close calls they make it within sight of safety. A split second decision gives only one of them a chance at survival.

Coverage of the Siege of Sidney Street, 3 January 1911, including film of Winston Churchill witnessing the events.

The background to, events of and consequences of the Battle of Mers-El-Kebir on 3 July 1940. In that battle, Royal Navy ships fired on the French Fleet in order to prevent it from falling into German hands. A French battleship was sunk and several other ships damaged. Nearly 1,300 French sailors were killed.

This landmark documentary film by Paul Elston tells the incredible story of how it was the British who gave the Japanese the knowhow to take out Pearl Harbor and capture Singapore in the World War 2. For 19 years before the fall of Singapore in 1942 to the Japanese, British officers were spying for Japan. Worse still, the Japanese had infiltrated the very heart of the British establishment - through a mole who was a peer of the realm known to Churchill himself.

The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.

On the 50th anniversary of Winston Churchill's death, Jeremy Paxman tells the story of the send-off which Britain gave to the man who led the country to victory in the Second World War. More than a million people came to line the streets of London on the freezing day in late January to pay their respects as his coffin was taken from the lying-in-state at Westminster to St Paul's Cathedral. Millions more watched the state funeral on television. Churchill was the only commoner in the twentieth century to receive the honour of such a magnificent ceremony.