Doug Williams and about time too. This should’ve been about his fifth or sixth Academy Award. He’s one of the most overlooked actors when it comes to awards.
Jared Wignall not as overlooked as Leo Dicapprio. He should have at least 5 oscars by now. Gilbert grape Basketball diaries Catch me if you can Blood diamond Django Wolf Revanent
Nicholson died in a prisoner of war camp in 1943 not truly knowing the impact he and his men had on saving over 300,000 men at Dunkirk and therefore keeping Britain in the war, he and his men truly are heroes. 🇬🇧
They wouldn't have had this darkest hour and also the disaster of Dunkirk if they hadn't betrayed Poland in 1939. This betrayal of Poland in 1939 was not only dishonest but it was also a military stupidity of truly monumental dimensions. The opportunity to fight a brief, localized war against Germany was therefore lost in September 1939. In hindsight, also lost were the opportunities to save millions of lives and to have prevented the creation of conditions that led to the Cold War. As General Ironside the Chief of the British General Staff stated in 1945, after much of Europe was in ruins and 50 million have died, "Militarily we should have gone all out against the German the minute Germans invaded Poland. ... We did not ... And so we missed the strategical advantage of the Germans being engaged in the East. We thought completely defensively and of ourselves. After the war German military commander Alfred Jodl said that "if we did not collapse already in the year 1939 that was due only to the fact that during the Polish campaign, the approximately 110 French and British divisions in the West were held completely inactive against the 23 German divisions." German General Siegfried Westphal stated that if the French had attacked in full force in September 1939 the German army "could only have held out for one or two weeks." Franz Halder Chief of the German General Staff of the Army documents this fact in his war diary. "The Wehrmacht had been on the verge of a military logistical catastrophe in the Polish campaign. The happy ending after a few weeks saved her from having to stop the fight because of insufficient ammunition." For all that reasons the Germans had lost the war because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war! The French and British would only have had to attack massively in the West as agreed and the war would have ended quickly with a victory for Poland, France and the British! But instead of massively attacking as was agreed, they betrayed Poland and holed up cowardly in the bunkers. Instead of attacking, they did the cowardly so-called Phoney War. In 1939 there was a good opportunity for a relatively quick victory against Germany. Because the Germans were too weak for a two-front war. For victory over Germany the British and French should have only acted according to the plan worked out with Poland for the event of a German raid on Poland. Three tactical main actions in the event of a German-Polish war contained the agreements with the British and French: 1. France immediately carries out an air campaign according to a pre-determined plan. 2. As soon as part of the French troops are ready (on the third day or so), France will progressively launch offensive actions with limited targets. 3. As soon as the main effort of Germany was directed against Poland, no later than 15 days after the German attack France with British support would begin with the bulk of its troops an offensive action against Germany. If, according to this plan the British and French had massively attacked the Germans in the west the victory would be certain because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war. But instead Poland was betrayed!
@@thegazza478 Do not exaggerate! Leastways Poland was the strongest country in Europe 600 years ago. Because Poland was the strongest country in Europe in the 15th century, because Poland was actually the only empire in Europe throughout that century. But since Poland has started an extreme rearmament program, in a few years Poland will be militarily the strongest NATO country in Europe of conventional armed forces.
@@GreatPolishWingedHussars You can go back further. In 1938/39 the Allies sacrificed Czechoslovakia, first gave away parts of the country to Hitler to secure "peace in our time" and then the rest of it. Czechoslovakia was ready to mobilize over 1 million men within a week to fight for Sudetenland, and it would've held on in mountain forts with allies' help in the air and on another front. But France dishonored the alliance and 1.5 years later the Germans drove czech-produced tanks into Paris. And we can go back even further to at least 1936 when Hitler blatantly violated the WW1 peace treaty and marched into Rheinland... and France with Britain just watched it happen. At that time Germany had a fraction of its 1939/40's army, France had the strongest military on the continent with the means and just cause to stop Germany in its rearmament tracks. That being said, we have the power of hindsight, they didn't. We are talking about a time period mere 20 years after the most devastating war the world had seen up until that point. A war where millions of young men were senselessly sent to their deaths and tens of millions more died during the 2nd most deadliest pandemic that was able to spread so easily because of that war. Every democratic country was trying to avoid another such catastrophe at any cost and thought they could actually avoid it by appeasing the dictator. They thought wrong. And they had to pay for that mistake, but sadly they made the rest of the world pay for it too (ofc the most blame goes to the 3 mustache c***s Hitler, Stalin and Hirohito, should go without saying, but one never knows).
@@GreatPolishWingedHussarsI agree that Germany was not ready for a 2 front war, one of the reasons he made the Molotov Ribbentrop pact with Stalin. However, I feel you are underestimating Germany’s capabilities and overestimating the allied capabilities. For one, the Allies needed time to mobilize. They had to mass troops and prepare them to go in to fight. If they didn’t, and had gone in quickly and unprepared, there likely could’ve been a result similar to Tannenburg in WW1. Also, the French army, while a bigger size than the Germans at that time, was in a worse shape with rarely inspected troops and still using obsolete technology such as horses at this point. At that point, while they could have been effective, I feel it is not so much a betrayal so much as caution. I do feel in the surrounding months however, they should have fought. Their inaction nearly doomed them all
"I will take full responsibility." "Really?" "Really! Yes Sir! It is the reason, I sit in this chair!" This is why Churchill sat in that chair, and Halifax didn't.
"Really! Yes, sir! It is the reason I sit in this chair!" Churchill was essentially calling Lord Halifax a backseat driver and a coward. Lord Halifax was favored by all to be PM after Chamberlain's ousting, but he didn't want the job, so it fell on Churchill. Churchill was saying "Yes, I will take responsibility and you won't as it always has been because you should be sitting in this chair but you aren't...I am."
Also, it's not that Halifax didn't want the job, he wouldn't have been approved by the coalition government at the time (comprised of Whigs - Labour - and Tories - Conservatives). The Labour party wanted Churchill to be PM.
Yeah You have to give max props to the makeup artist Not the actor No the only reason this is gold is because he looks like him Nothing to do with his phenomenal acting..... Jesus
Hear hear. I watch this over and over. Churchill was not Australia's friend and he had a lot of flaws but he was the man of the moment. Oldman was just breathtaking.
They wouldn't have had this darkest hour and also the disaster of Dunkirk if they hadn't betrayed Poland in 1939. This betrayal of Poland in 1939 was not only dishonest but it was also a military stupidity of truly monumental dimensions. The opportunity to fight a brief, localized war against Germany was therefore lost in September 1939. In hindsight, also lost were the opportunities to save millions of lives and to have prevented the creation of conditions that led to the Cold War. As General Ironside the Chief of the British General Staff stated in 1945, after much of Europe was in ruins and 50 million have died, "Militarily we should have gone all out against the German the minute Germans invaded Poland. ... We did not ... And so we missed the strategical advantage of the Germans being engaged in the East. We thought completely defensively and of ourselves. After the war German military commander Alfred Jodl said that "if we did not collapse already in the year 1939 that was due only to the fact that during the Polish campaign, the approximately 110 French and British divisions in the West were held completely inactive against the 23 German divisions." German General Siegfried Westphal stated that if the French had attacked in full force in September 1939 the German army "could only have held out for one or two weeks." Franz Halder Chief of the German General Staff of the Army documents this fact in his war diary. "The Wehrmacht had been on the verge of a military logistical catastrophe in the Polish campaign. The happy ending after a few weeks saved her from having to stop the fight because of insufficient ammunition." For all that reasons the Germans had lost the war because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war! The French and British would only have had to attack massively in the West as agreed and the war would have ended quickly with a victory for Poland, France and the British! But instead of massively attacking as was agreed, they betrayed Poland and holed up cowardly in the bunkers. Instead of attacking, they did the cowardly so-called Phoney War. In 1939 there was a good opportunity for a relatively quick victory against Germany. Because the Germans were too weak for a two-front war. For victory over Germany the British and French should have only acted according to the plan worked out with Poland for the event of a German raid on Poland. Three tactical main actions in the event of a German-Polish war contained the agreements with the British and French: 1. France immediately carries out an air campaign according to a pre-determined plan. 2. As soon as part of the French troops are ready (on the third day or so), France will progressively launch offensive actions with limited targets. 3. As soon as the main effort of Germany was directed against Poland, no later than 15 days after the German attack France with British support would begin with the bulk of its troops an offensive action against Germany. If, according to this plan the British and French had massively attacked the Germans in the west the victory would be certain because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war. But instead Poland was betrayed!
@@briliantkastanja2897 Unfortunately those odds are hardly ever apparent on a confused mess that is a battlefield. It's hindsight that can determine if a sacrifice was pointless or made the real difference. I have always have mad respect for those VC winners, whether they survive or are awarded posthumously.
Method acting is widely known as being your character 24/7. However method acting is actually just using real memories to trigger your emotions rather than made up memories. So it is very very common for actors to be “method” - “method acting” is what people think DDL does.
Gary Oldman himself has said he's never really been in a method actor. Other actors often say he'll break into song and dance or joke around between takes, going right back into being himself
I watched this knowing my Great Grandfather Walter Drake was at Dunkirk waiting for rescue, i willed them on forgetting I was watching a film. My sons existence is through this sacrifice and I'm forever thankful.
I like to think that The King’s Speech, Dunkirk, and Darkest Hour take place in the same movie universe. Whenever I watch one, I’m thinking “and Gary Oldman is fighting the political while Hardy is fighting an air battle while Firth is dealing with his stutter”.
I believe Dunkirk is an indirect sequel to Darkest Hour. We see what Churchill was going through to save 300,000 soldiers while Tom was fighting to give those soldiers time to get away. And don’t forget Mark Rylance. The man in the boat with the other boatmen moving to save those troops.
They wouldn't have had this darkest hour and also the disaster of Dunkirk if they hadn't betrayed Poland in 1939. This betrayal of Poland in 1939 was not only dishonest but it was also a military stupidity of truly monumental dimensions. The opportunity to fight a brief, localized war against Germany was therefore lost in September 1939. In hindsight, also lost were the opportunities to save millions of lives and to have prevented the creation of conditions that led to the Cold War. As General Ironside the Chief of the British General Staff stated in 1945, after much of Europe was in ruins and 50 million have died, "Militarily we should have gone all out against the German the minute Germans invaded Poland. ... We did not ... And so we missed the strategical advantage of the Germans being engaged in the East. We thought completely defensively and of ourselves. After the war German military commander Alfred Jodl said that "if we did not collapse already in the year 1939 that was due only to the fact that during the Polish campaign, the approximately 110 French and British divisions in the West were held completely inactive against the 23 German divisions." German General Siegfried Westphal stated that if the French had attacked in full force in September 1939 the German army "could only have held out for one or two weeks." Franz Halder Chief of the German General Staff of the Army documents this fact in his war diary. "The Wehrmacht had been on the verge of a military logistical catastrophe in the Polish campaign. The happy ending after a few weeks saved her from having to stop the fight because of insufficient ammunition." For all that reasons the Germans had lost the war because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war! The French and British would only have had to attack massively in the West as agreed and the war would have ended quickly with a victory for Poland, France and the British! But instead of massively attacking as was agreed, they betrayed Poland and holed up cowardly in the bunkers. Instead of attacking, they did the cowardly so-called Phoney War. In 1939 there was a good opportunity for a relatively quick victory against Germany. Because the Germans were too weak for a two-front war. For victory over Germany the British and French should have only acted according to the plan worked out with Poland for the event of a German raid on Poland. Three tactical main actions in the event of a German-Polish war contained the agreements with the British and French: 1. France immediately carries out an air campaign according to a pre-determined plan. 2. As soon as part of the French troops are ready (on the third day or so), France will progressively launch offensive actions with limited targets. 3. As soon as the main effort of Germany was directed against Poland, no later than 15 days after the German attack France with British support would begin with the bulk of its troops an offensive action against Germany. If, according to this plan the British and French had massively attacked the Germans in the west the victory would be certain because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war. But instead Poland was betrayed!
Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman played crucial roles in the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk. Were it not for Hardy's badass flying and Oldman's political pull, the Germans would have decimated the Brits.
While i will take no part away from the Royal Air Force and the miracle that they pulled off, we must not forget the other reason why Hitler chose not to launch operation Sea lion and that was the simple fact that the Royal Navy held overwhelming power of the sea throughout the war.
There was also a reason the majority of the fleet was kept at Scapa Flow, beyond the range of effective German bombers. The fleet was only to sail in significant force IF the Germans mounted an actual attempt at invasion, in which case the Royal Navy would have decimated any landing attempt. That's why, without control of the air, the Royal Navy would always pose an insurmountable risk to any attempt at invasion. If the Luftwaffe had control of the air, then the danger of the Royal Navy is hugely mitigated. Ships at sea without air cover are easy pickings, as we found out with the loss of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse in Singapore. Germany's problem also was the shortage of amphibious capable craft. They literally did not have the MEANS to get an invasion force of the size needed to subdue Britain across the Channel. Add to that, the UK had essentially turned itself into an island fortress at this period. Even if an initial landing was by some miracle for the Germans successfull, it still needs to be kept supplied, and then the long slog inland and north would begin. Towards the end of the Battle of Britain, the UK was actually beginning to outproduce the Germans in the number of fighter aircraft we were making, and given that losses for the Luftwaffe were unsustainable, the tide had turned against the Germans significantly. For them, the situation had become a veritable stalemate. While the UK did not have the means to invade continental Europe on her own, the Germans likewise did not have the means to knock the UK out of the war. Hitler by the end of the Battle of Britain was already looking East, where the majority of his Army was gathering for his invasion of the Soviet Union. Just my input haha :)
@@bobpage6597 This precious stone set in a silver sea Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands.
Hugh Dowding was holding back on sending large numbers of spitfires and hurricanes because he knew the battle for Britain was on the cards . "The battle for France is over, the battle of Britain is about to begin "
Can we just take a minute to appreciate Gary Oldman's impression of Churchill's speech? Like he's managed to find a middle ground between a coherent English accent and Churchill's speech impediment lol it's great.
They wouldn't have had this darkest hour and also the disaster of Dunkirk if they hadn't betrayed Poland in 1939. This betrayal of Poland in 1939 was not only dishonest but it was also a military stupidity of truly monumental dimensions. The opportunity to fight a brief, localized war against Germany was therefore lost in September 1939. In hindsight, also lost were the opportunities to save millions of lives and to have prevented the creation of conditions that led to the Cold War. As General Ironside the Chief of the British General Staff stated in 1945, after much of Europe was in ruins and 50 million have died, "Militarily we should have gone all out against the German the minute Germans invaded Poland. ... We did not ... And so we missed the strategical advantage of the Germans being engaged in the East. We thought completely defensively and of ourselves. After the war German military commander Alfred Jodl said that "if we did not collapse already in the year 1939 that was due only to the fact that during the Polish campaign, the approximately 110 French and British divisions in the West were held completely inactive against the 23 German divisions." German General Siegfried Westphal stated that if the French had attacked in full force in September 1939 the German army "could only have held out for one or two weeks." Franz Halder Chief of the German General Staff of the Army documents this fact in his war diary. "The Wehrmacht had been on the verge of a military logistical catastrophe in the Polish campaign. The happy ending after a few weeks saved her from having to stop the fight because of insufficient ammunition." For all that reasons the Germans had lost the war because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war! The French and British would only have had to attack massively in the West as agreed and the war would have ended quickly with a victory for Poland, France and the British! But instead of massively attacking as was agreed, they betrayed Poland and holed up cowardly in the bunkers. Instead of attacking, they did the cowardly so-called Phoney War. In 1939 there was a good opportunity for a relatively quick victory against Germany. Because the Germans were too weak for a two-front war. For victory over Germany the British and French should have only acted according to the plan worked out with Poland for the event of a German raid on Poland. Three tactical main actions in the event of a German-Polish war contained the agreements with the British and French: 1. France immediately carries out an air campaign according to a pre-determined plan. 2. As soon as part of the French troops are ready (on the third day or so), France will progressively launch offensive actions with limited targets. 3. As soon as the main effort of Germany was directed against Poland, no later than 15 days after the German attack France with British support would begin with the bulk of its troops an offensive action against Germany. If, according to this plan the British and French had massively attacked the Germans in the west the victory would be certain because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war. But instead Poland was betrayed!
Love at 2:05 how he started putting the question, due to the "historian noter" writing every words that was spoken in that room, in order to turn the people against him.
Look at the subtle power move at 1:12 when Winston puts his hands on his hips, flaring his elbows and raising his shoulders! Great attention to detail.
This War Room still exists, practically as it was left at the end of WW2. It is a simple room underneath a Government Office in Whitehall (i.e. it isn't an underground bunker). The room is "tended" by the Imperial War Museum. On a documentary about "underground London" a curator showed the narrator of the programme Churchill's chair. On the right-hand armrest there is a round dent caused by Churchill hammering his signet ring into it. On the left-hand armrest there is a half-moon shape where he dug his fingernail. Difficult days.....
The British and French garrison in Calais held off the Germans for three bloody days in hand to hand combat, which gave the trapped allied forces at Durkirk time to prepare its defences and evacuation. Respect to the defenders of Calais for their heroic fighting and sacrifice. 🙌😥🥀
@Joshua Grover..... they knew that the Dunkirk encircled men who were more in number would be saved and that they had to die for the British and Third French Empires!
I'm an American, and a child of the Reagan era, and I'm still in the debt of the brave warriors that made evacuation possible. Without that, Turing cracking Enigma, American involvement, the fail-whale that was Mussolini, literally NONE of it would be worth a pisshole in a snowbank if not for the great sacrifice of men (and women) almost a century ago.
@@MomMom4Cubs Also without sacrifice of nations of former soviet union, including UKRAINIANS (who made up huge part of the soviet army) who gave their health and lives fighting fascists. You're also in a debt to modernday heroes, our Ukrainian soldiers fighting off modernday fascism while you're safe in the other part of the world.
That music that lightly starts playing at 1:58.....really makes the rest of this scene shine so well. It shows how high the military and political stakes were for Churchill. EDIT: YES! Just found out what song that was. It's called "History Is Listening," and damn is it good!
So interesting how the actor playing Halifax also played the painter who was commissioned to do a portrait of Winston Churchill played by John Lithgow in The Crown TV Show. Pretty sure it was in the same year too, both amazing performances and to me Lithgow portrayed an aging Churchill amazingly
@Les H Mahagow "It takes 3 years to build a ship but 300 years to build a tradition" (Mountbatten I believe, in reply when asked why RN vessels ALWAYS engaged the enemy more closely, whatever the odds).
Don't forget the Merchant Navy. Look up Operation Pedestal. When the broken backed 'Ohio' crawled in to Valletta the Royal Navy Commander in Malta insisted on giving the merchantmen a salute.
The RN was not so chilled when the Bismarck sunk the Hood. They ended up putting everything available into harm's way to secure a victory over that menace.
G E T R E K T Big Daddy USA, didn't enter the war for anothe eighteen months or more after this event, and Bid Daddy USA had a much SMALLER NAVY than the U.K. until 1942. And then the U.S. only entered the war because if Britain had fallen the U.S. would have had enemies on both sides of their coast. COWARDS?, Britain and the Commonwealth were fighting on their own since 1939. What a disgusting Coward you must be.
0:55 -- And this right here was what Hitler was hoping for all along: Strong-arming Britain out of the war. No naval blockade, no involvement of the USA, no entanglements with the British in North Africa, the Balkans, Greece, or Crete, both the Marine Nationale and the Regia Marina intact instead of sunk at Mers-el-Kébir and Taranto respectively... and suddenly the idea of Germany managing to defeat Soviet Russia by the end of 1941 does not look *that* far-fetched anymore.
Stephen Dillane was absolutely brilliant as "The Holy Fox". Oldman's performance was legendary though, but you have to acknowledge the brilliant supporting cast
My father was one if those soldiers in Calais but he was "luckly" enough to survive the never ending brutal German onslaugt and became a POW. When he got home and recieve his medals for his service, he threw them on the ground when he recived them in the ceremony and told the heirarcy officers - "you lets us all down" . Lucky his sister was there to pick them off the ground as he walked out. I still have those medals.
Never forget the british and french soldiers who thought to the end at calais to help evacuate Dunkirk. They are always overlooked in the story of Dunkirk.
The only reason anyone can claim to have won that war is because Churchill didn’t lose it in ‘39-‘40. I believe he is the greatest statesman of modern history.
I disagree. He had tremendous flaws. But he had the biggest balls. People drastically underestimate the preparations and triumph FDR directed and finessed.
The US invasion of Europe would've never worked if they didn't have Great Britain as a staging ground for D-Day. If Halifax had his way US would've had a much harder time getting into Europe. With the Germans not having to fight a 2 front war in Europe they could've totally focused on invading Russia.
@@trentinfield7903 You don't want to win the entire war based on nuclear weapons. I mean at least when we used it on Japan they were on the brink of defeat but were too stubborn to give up. The nuclear weapons more or less just convinced them to finally throw in the towel. And the nuclear weapons of the time they had to be dropped from a bomber plane. Japan was an island nation so you didn't have to fly that far into occupied territory to drop the bombs. But do you think that in 1945 they would've been able to protect a bomber all the way to Germany through occupied territory without the bomber getting shot out of the air ?
Ricky Gervais was offered the role of Churchill before Gary Oldman. Can we have a comedy version of darkest hour with Churchill in his chair “vis a vis, yeah, I can win this war AKA for you.”
@D. K. The Soviets didn't do a racially motivated genocide nor wanted to. They took down the Polish army, took down the fascists, took down the capitalists, but at no point did they want to exterminate a race
@@travisbickle4360 To be fair, the brits did a fair bit themselves almost on par with what the US did. For example, they did a great job in Africa fighting the Italians and Germans. And they also played a major part of holding the Japanese in Asia. Also british and Canadian forces actually outnumbered American troops on D day.
The scene after this one where Nicholson hopelessly reads the order and looks up to the sky makes me cry man. I can’t IMAGINE the weight of, in essence, being told “I’m sorry, but it is time for you and your men to die for your country. No one is coming to save you. Thank you for your sacrifice.” Gives me the shivers!
It's really a very easy decision, if the sacrifice of 4000 will get you 50,000 of your men back then there is nothing to decide. In the event it got back more than 200,000.
Who could have imagined , that when you wrote this in 2018 , that a pandemic would hit , and that with all the pandemic politics , we need him even more in 2022 ? .
Whoever it is playing Chamberlain, he looks the part to near absolute perfection. He didn't say a word in this clip, but the resemblance is amazing.
This was an outstanding film ,there are some great examples of Britons in the right place at the right time Churchill was one of those Britons 🇬🇧
Ronald Pickup is his name. RADA trained with a list of credits going back to the 60's.
Remember him from Sherlock Holmes series where he played Barrymore
Seriously: Absolute perfection, he does display it.
Another likeness in another film...
Edward fox playing general horrocks in " a bridge too far"
Had to do a double- take
Halifax: Hundreds will die.
Churchill: Thousands.
stannis😍
Stalin: Millions!!!
History of mankind: Billions
Come with me and take this beach!
*Me: No Millions*
Gary Oldman's performance in this was second-to-none.
Gary Oldmans performance in everything he does is second to none. IMO.
he did win an oscar for this
Brendan Gleason and John Lithgow did fantastic Churchill’s
But yeah I think Oldman was the best.
Doug Williams and about time too. This should’ve been about his fifth or sixth Academy Award. He’s one of the most overlooked actors when it comes to awards.
Jared Wignall not as overlooked as Leo Dicapprio.
He should have at least 5 oscars by now.
Gilbert grape
Basketball diaries
Catch me if you can
Blood diamond
Django
Wolf
Revanent
Nicholson died in a prisoner of war camp in 1943 not truly knowing the impact he and his men had on saving over 300,000 men at Dunkirk and therefore keeping Britain in the war, he and his men truly are heroes. 🇬🇧
They wouldn't have had this darkest hour and also the disaster of Dunkirk if they hadn't betrayed Poland in 1939. This betrayal of Poland in 1939 was not only dishonest but it was also a military stupidity of truly monumental dimensions. The opportunity to fight a brief, localized war against Germany was therefore lost in September 1939. In hindsight, also lost were the opportunities to save millions of lives and to have prevented the creation of conditions that led to the Cold War. As General Ironside the Chief of the British General Staff stated in 1945, after much of Europe was in ruins and 50 million have died, "Militarily we should have gone all out against the German the minute Germans invaded Poland. ... We did not ... And so we missed the strategical advantage of the Germans being engaged in the East. We thought completely defensively and of ourselves.
After the war German military commander Alfred Jodl said that "if we did not collapse already in the year 1939 that was due only to the fact that during the Polish campaign, the approximately 110 French and British divisions in the West were held completely inactive against the 23 German divisions." German General Siegfried Westphal stated that if the French had attacked in full force in September 1939 the German army "could only have held out for one or two weeks." Franz Halder Chief of the German General Staff of the Army documents this fact in his war diary. "The Wehrmacht had been on the verge of a military logistical catastrophe in the Polish campaign. The happy ending after a few weeks saved her from having to stop the fight because of insufficient ammunition." For all that reasons the Germans had lost the war because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war! The French and British would only have had to attack massively in the West as agreed and the war would have ended quickly with a victory for Poland, France and the British! But instead of massively attacking as was agreed, they betrayed Poland and holed up cowardly in the bunkers. Instead of attacking, they did the cowardly so-called Phoney War.
In 1939 there was a good opportunity for a relatively quick victory against Germany. Because the Germans were too weak for a two-front war. For victory over Germany the British and French should have only acted according to the plan worked out with Poland for the event of a German raid on Poland. Three tactical main actions in the event of a German-Polish war contained the agreements with the British and French:
1. France immediately carries out an air campaign according to a pre-determined plan.
2. As soon as part of the French troops are ready (on the third day or so), France will progressively launch offensive actions with limited targets.
3. As soon as the main effort of Germany was directed against Poland, no later than 15 days after the German attack France with British support would begin with the bulk of its troops an offensive action against Germany.
If, according to this plan the British and French had massively attacked the Germans in the west the victory would be certain because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war.
But instead Poland was betrayed!
@@GreatPolishWingedHussars poland strongest country
@@thegazza478 Do not exaggerate! Leastways Poland was the strongest country in Europe 600 years ago. Because Poland was the strongest country in Europe in the 15th century, because Poland was actually the only empire in Europe throughout that century. But since Poland has started an extreme rearmament program, in a few years Poland will be militarily the strongest NATO country in Europe of conventional armed forces.
@@GreatPolishWingedHussars You can go back further. In 1938/39 the Allies sacrificed Czechoslovakia, first gave away parts of the country to Hitler to secure "peace in our time" and then the rest of it. Czechoslovakia was ready to mobilize over 1 million men within a week to fight for Sudetenland, and it would've held on in mountain forts with allies' help in the air and on another front. But France dishonored the alliance and 1.5 years later the Germans drove czech-produced tanks into Paris. And we can go back even further to at least 1936 when Hitler blatantly violated the WW1 peace treaty and marched into Rheinland... and France with Britain just watched it happen. At that time Germany had a fraction of its 1939/40's army, France had the strongest military on the continent with the means and just cause to stop Germany in its rearmament tracks.
That being said, we have the power of hindsight, they didn't. We are talking about a time period mere 20 years after the most devastating war the world had seen up until that point. A war where millions of young men were senselessly sent to their deaths and tens of millions more died during the 2nd most deadliest pandemic that was able to spread so easily because of that war. Every democratic country was trying to avoid another such catastrophe at any cost and thought they could actually avoid it by appeasing the dictator. They thought wrong. And they had to pay for that mistake, but sadly they made the rest of the world pay for it too (ofc the most blame goes to the 3 mustache c***s Hitler, Stalin and Hirohito, should go without saying, but one never knows).
@@GreatPolishWingedHussarsI agree that Germany was not ready for a 2 front war, one of the reasons he made the Molotov Ribbentrop pact with Stalin. However, I feel you are underestimating Germany’s capabilities and overestimating the allied capabilities. For one, the Allies needed time to mobilize. They had to mass troops and prepare them to go in to fight. If they didn’t, and had gone in quickly and unprepared, there likely could’ve been a result similar to Tannenburg in WW1. Also, the French army, while a bigger size than the Germans at that time, was in a worse shape with rarely inspected troops and still using obsolete technology such as horses at this point. At that point, while they could have been effective, I feel it is not so much a betrayal so much as caution. I do feel in the surrounding months however, they should have fought. Their inaction nearly doomed them all
"I will take full responsibility."
"Really?"
"Really! Yes Sir! It is the reason, I sit in this chair!"
This is why Churchill sat in that chair, and Halifax didn't.
Exactly. Viscount Halifax was an appeaser, and appeasement is never a good thing.
@@AntPDC People like Halifax just don't understand that sometimes painful decisions need to be made for the greater good.
@@AntPDC appeasement did prevent war
They are like bunch of children arguing while I was in Dunkirk .... but on the wrong side
@@Wickedonezz Appeasement is how the second world war started in the first place.
"Really! Yes, sir! It is the reason I sit in this chair!"
Churchill was essentially calling Lord Halifax a backseat driver and a coward. Lord Halifax was favored by all to be PM after Chamberlain's ousting, but he didn't want the job, so it fell on Churchill. Churchill was saying "Yes, I will take responsibility and you won't as it always has been because you should be sitting in this chair but you aren't...I am."
Also, it's not that Halifax didn't want the job, he wouldn't have been approved by the coalition government at the time (comprised of Whigs - Labour - and Tories - Conservatives). The Labour party wanted Churchill to be PM.
Backseat driver, coward, dare I say, a sympathiser?
Dunkirk was to be a failure and Churchill to get the blame then chamberlains people go back to power, but didn't work out that way
@@demonprinces17 no it didn’t! Churchill and Dynamo was a huge success!
@@Legba85 but chamberlains people thought it would fail
Halifax is just salty bc he's not sitting the Iron Throne
Chilliard2000 I hated Halifax I always thought that he was a spy for Hitler
But it's his by right!
Heard he throws a mean BBQ
THE IRON THRONE IS MINE BY RIGHT!
Nah he’s just pissed John Adams didn’t vote for him as President.
You have to give maximum props to whoever did the make up in this movie, because Gary Oldman look totally unrecognizable.
That "whoever" (makeup designer Kazuhiro Tsuji) won all the awards for this movie, most deservedly
TheLastOfTheFinest80 yes
I think it was Gary who knew him and recruited him.
Yeah
You have to give max props to the makeup artist
Not the actor
No the only reason this is gold is because he looks like him
Nothing to do with his phenomenal acting.....
Jesus
@@sbraypaynt So congratulating the make up artist is a sin now is it? Bloody tool
Gary Oldman is so damn good. I cannot imagine a better performance!
So happy he won the Oscar for this he definitely deserved it
Hear hear. I watch this over and over. Churchill was not Australia's friend and he had a lot of flaws but he was the man of the moment. Oldman was just breathtaking.
@@Larrikins54 He was the hero we needed
They wouldn't have had this darkest hour and also the disaster of Dunkirk if they hadn't betrayed Poland in 1939. This betrayal of Poland in 1939 was not only dishonest but it was also a military stupidity of truly monumental dimensions. The opportunity to fight a brief, localized war against Germany was therefore lost in September 1939. In hindsight, also lost were the opportunities to save millions of lives and to have prevented the creation of conditions that led to the Cold War. As General Ironside the Chief of the British General Staff stated in 1945, after much of Europe was in ruins and 50 million have died, "Militarily we should have gone all out against the German the minute Germans invaded Poland. ... We did not ... And so we missed the strategical advantage of the Germans being engaged in the East. We thought completely defensively and of ourselves.
After the war German military commander Alfred Jodl said that "if we did not collapse already in the year 1939 that was due only to the fact that during the Polish campaign, the approximately 110 French and British divisions in the West were held completely inactive against the 23 German divisions." German General Siegfried Westphal stated that if the French had attacked in full force in September 1939 the German army "could only have held out for one or two weeks." Franz Halder Chief of the German General Staff of the Army documents this fact in his war diary. "The Wehrmacht had been on the verge of a military logistical catastrophe in the Polish campaign. The happy ending after a few weeks saved her from having to stop the fight because of insufficient ammunition." For all that reasons the Germans had lost the war because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war! The French and British would only have had to attack massively in the West as agreed and the war would have ended quickly with a victory for Poland, France and the British! But instead of massively attacking as was agreed, they betrayed Poland and holed up cowardly in the bunkers. Instead of attacking, they did the cowardly so-called Phoney War.
In 1939 there was a good opportunity for a relatively quick victory against Germany. Because the Germans were too weak for a two-front war. For victory over Germany the British and French should have only acted according to the plan worked out with Poland for the event of a German raid on Poland. Three tactical main actions in the event of a German-Polish war contained the agreements with the British and French:
1. France immediately carries out an air campaign according to a pre-determined plan.
2. As soon as part of the French troops are ready (on the third day or so), France will progressively launch offensive actions with limited targets.
3. As soon as the main effort of Germany was directed against Poland, no later than 15 days after the German attack France with British support would begin with the bulk of its troops an offensive action against Germany.
If, according to this plan the British and French had massively attacked the Germans in the west the victory would be certain because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war.
But instead Poland was betrayed!
He even got that occasional barely understandable (to me) stutter to a point. Give Gary Oldman an award because that is some dedicated acting
0:41: Stannis Baratheon is having reservations about unnecessary sacrifices? I can't believe I am seeing this.
drpapa26
Weally I’ve weservations he sounds like a deviant bbc announcer .
They didn't have kingsblood that's why
That Stannis was a butchery.
drpapa26 thanks, I saw him but couldn’t remember his “name”. Lol
I love these random GOT connections/references
Some people just can't accept that victory requires sacrifice.
Yes but it’s easier to say that when your not the one being sacrificed.
alan B Exactly
@@alanb9443 I would gladly die if my death can save 300.000 lives of my countrymen
Whole story leading up to this moment isn’t that simple. On paper Churchill looked mad in this moment.
@@briliantkastanja2897 Unfortunately those odds are hardly ever apparent on a confused mess that is a battlefield. It's hindsight that can determine if a sacrifice was pointless or made the real difference. I have always have mad respect for those VC winners, whether they survive or are awarded posthumously.
What a great actor. I was finding it hard to believe it was Gary in this movie. Method Acting on a whole new level imo
It wasn't method acting.
Alberto Ramizq it was "acting" and Oldman is one of the best. You just have to watch Bram Stoker's Dracula to see that.
Gary isn't a method actor. He belongs to the very rare breed of actors like Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix.
Method acting is widely known as being your character 24/7. However method acting is actually just using real memories to trigger your emotions rather than made up memories. So it is very very common for actors to be “method” - “method acting” is what people think DDL does.
Gary Oldman himself has said he's never really been in a method actor. Other actors often say he'll break into song and dance or joke around between takes, going right back into being himself
I watched this knowing my Great Grandfather Walter Drake was at Dunkirk waiting for rescue, i willed them on forgetting I was watching a film. My sons existence is through this sacrifice and I'm forever thankful.
I like to think that The King’s Speech, Dunkirk, and Darkest Hour take place in the same movie universe. Whenever I watch one, I’m thinking “and Gary Oldman is fighting the political while Hardy is fighting an air battle while Firth is dealing with his stutter”.
I believe Dunkirk is an indirect sequel to Darkest Hour. We see what Churchill was going through to save 300,000 soldiers while Tom was fighting to give those soldiers time to get away. And don’t forget Mark Rylance. The man in the boat with the other boatmen moving to save those troops.
Great movies
Three amazing films, but The King’s Speech is hard to beat.
Someone's actually edited Darkest Hour and Dunkirk into one film
Oldman won the Oscar. And you can see why. My God what a performance.
They wouldn't have had this darkest hour and also the disaster of Dunkirk if they hadn't betrayed Poland in 1939. This betrayal of Poland in 1939 was not only dishonest but it was also a military stupidity of truly monumental dimensions. The opportunity to fight a brief, localized war against Germany was therefore lost in September 1939. In hindsight, also lost were the opportunities to save millions of lives and to have prevented the creation of conditions that led to the Cold War. As General Ironside the Chief of the British General Staff stated in 1945, after much of Europe was in ruins and 50 million have died, "Militarily we should have gone all out against the German the minute Germans invaded Poland. ... We did not ... And so we missed the strategical advantage of the Germans being engaged in the East. We thought completely defensively and of ourselves.
After the war German military commander Alfred Jodl said that "if we did not collapse already in the year 1939 that was due only to the fact that during the Polish campaign, the approximately 110 French and British divisions in the West were held completely inactive against the 23 German divisions." German General Siegfried Westphal stated that if the French had attacked in full force in September 1939 the German army "could only have held out for one or two weeks." Franz Halder Chief of the German General Staff of the Army documents this fact in his war diary. "The Wehrmacht had been on the verge of a military logistical catastrophe in the Polish campaign. The happy ending after a few weeks saved her from having to stop the fight because of insufficient ammunition." For all that reasons the Germans had lost the war because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war! The French and British would only have had to attack massively in the West as agreed and the war would have ended quickly with a victory for Poland, France and the British! But instead of massively attacking as was agreed, they betrayed Poland and holed up cowardly in the bunkers. Instead of attacking, they did the cowardly so-called Phoney War.
In 1939 there was a good opportunity for a relatively quick victory against Germany. Because the Germans were too weak for a two-front war. For victory over Germany the British and French should have only acted according to the plan worked out with Poland for the event of a German raid on Poland. Three tactical main actions in the event of a German-Polish war contained the agreements with the British and French:
1. France immediately carries out an air campaign according to a pre-determined plan.
2. As soon as part of the French troops are ready (on the third day or so), France will progressively launch offensive actions with limited targets.
3. As soon as the main effort of Germany was directed against Poland, no later than 15 days after the German attack France with British support would begin with the bulk of its troops an offensive action against Germany.
If, according to this plan the British and French had massively attacked the Germans in the west the victory would be certain because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war.
But instead Poland was betrayed!
Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman played crucial roles in the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk. Were it not for Hardy's badass flying and Oldman's political pull, the Germans would have decimated the Brits.
Sir Grumpsalot yeah, I'd love to imagine they're in the same cinematic universe 😊😊
And don't forget Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, who cracked the enigma code haha.
What about Cillian Murphy? :D
And that bloke from that band
Justin Bailey Dunkirk= the border of Germany.
Ladies and gentlemen, someone needs a geography class, in addition to some common sense.
Gary Oldman, brilliant in every role he does.
Even as a freaking peacock.
While i will take no part away from the Royal Air Force and the miracle that they pulled off, we must not forget the other reason why Hitler chose not to launch operation Sea lion and that was the simple fact that the Royal Navy held overwhelming power of the sea throughout the war.
There was also a reason the majority of the fleet was kept at Scapa Flow, beyond the range of effective German bombers. The fleet was only to sail in significant force IF the Germans mounted an actual attempt at invasion, in which case the Royal Navy would have decimated any landing attempt. That's why, without control of the air, the Royal Navy would always pose an insurmountable risk to any attempt at invasion. If the Luftwaffe had control of the air, then the danger of the Royal Navy is hugely mitigated. Ships at sea without air cover are easy pickings, as we found out with the loss of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse in Singapore.
Germany's problem also was the shortage of amphibious capable craft. They literally did not have the MEANS to get an invasion force of the size needed to subdue Britain across the Channel. Add to that, the UK had essentially turned itself into an island fortress at this period. Even if an initial landing was by some miracle for the Germans successfull, it still needs to be kept supplied, and then the long slog inland and north would begin. Towards the end of the Battle of Britain, the UK was actually beginning to outproduce the Germans in the number of fighter aircraft we were making, and given that losses for the Luftwaffe were unsustainable, the tide had turned against the Germans significantly. For them, the situation had become a veritable stalemate. While the UK did not have the means to invade continental Europe on her own, the Germans likewise did not have the means to knock the UK out of the war. Hitler by the end of the Battle of Britain was already looking East, where the majority of his Army was gathering for his invasion of the Soviet Union.
Just my input haha :)
@@bobpage6597 Quite right, especially on the landing craft.I think they had barges that could be towed and maybe 2 or 3 actual landing craft.
@@bobpage6597 This precious stone set in a silver sea
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands.
Hugh Dowding was holding back on sending large numbers of spitfires and hurricanes because he knew the battle for Britain was on the cards .
"The battle for France is over, the battle of Britain is about to begin "
Overwhelming power throughout the war... ??? It's called a World War for a reason...where was the RN in the Pacific...??,
REALLY, YES SIR!
IT IS THE REASON (slams chair) "I" SIT IN THIS CHAIR!
He's a badass
That's how you pull rank
@@bunnyboilerification Yup : )
EVERRYYYYYYOOONNEEE!!!!!
@@jonnybirchyboy1560 lol
Can we just take a minute to appreciate Gary Oldman's impression of Churchill's speech? Like he's managed to find a middle ground between a coherent English accent and Churchill's speech impediment lol it's great.
They wouldn't have had this darkest hour and also the disaster of Dunkirk if they hadn't betrayed Poland in 1939. This betrayal of Poland in 1939 was not only dishonest but it was also a military stupidity of truly monumental dimensions. The opportunity to fight a brief, localized war against Germany was therefore lost in September 1939. In hindsight, also lost were the opportunities to save millions of lives and to have prevented the creation of conditions that led to the Cold War. As General Ironside the Chief of the British General Staff stated in 1945, after much of Europe was in ruins and 50 million have died, "Militarily we should have gone all out against the German the minute Germans invaded Poland. ... We did not ... And so we missed the strategical advantage of the Germans being engaged in the East. We thought completely defensively and of ourselves.
After the war German military commander Alfred Jodl said that "if we did not collapse already in the year 1939 that was due only to the fact that during the Polish campaign, the approximately 110 French and British divisions in the West were held completely inactive against the 23 German divisions." German General Siegfried Westphal stated that if the French had attacked in full force in September 1939 the German army "could only have held out for one or two weeks." Franz Halder Chief of the German General Staff of the Army documents this fact in his war diary. "The Wehrmacht had been on the verge of a military logistical catastrophe in the Polish campaign. The happy ending after a few weeks saved her from having to stop the fight because of insufficient ammunition." For all that reasons the Germans had lost the war because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war! The French and British would only have had to attack massively in the West as agreed and the war would have ended quickly with a victory for Poland, France and the British! But instead of massively attacking as was agreed, they betrayed Poland and holed up cowardly in the bunkers. Instead of attacking, they did the cowardly so-called Phoney War.
In 1939 there was a good opportunity for a relatively quick victory against Germany. Because the Germans were too weak for a two-front war. For victory over Germany the British and French should have only acted according to the plan worked out with Poland for the event of a German raid on Poland. Three tactical main actions in the event of a German-Polish war contained the agreements with the British and French:
1. France immediately carries out an air campaign according to a pre-determined plan.
2. As soon as part of the French troops are ready (on the third day or so), France will progressively launch offensive actions with limited targets.
3. As soon as the main effort of Germany was directed against Poland, no later than 15 days after the German attack France with British support would begin with the bulk of its troops an offensive action against Germany.
If, according to this plan the British and French had massively attacked the Germans in the west the victory would be certain because Germans were not prepared for a two-fronts war.
But instead Poland was betrayed!
Oldman is an absolute masterclass of acting I have no words on how good he is
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01:38 "Really! Yes sir! It is the rrrr..reason I sit in this chair!" 🤣😅. Amazing. What a moment
1:26 to 1:44 - Oscar clip
Mitchell Murray For which actor ?
Infernal460 Oldman Duh!
"REALLY YES SIR!!! It is the reason *slams chair* I SIT IN THIS CHAIR!!!!"
Love at 2:05 how he started putting the question, due to the "historian noter" writing every words that was spoken in that room, in order to turn the people against him.
Gary brought his A game as always in this movie but in this movie, his acting is on a whole other level.
It was nice of Churchill to let in a cameraman to film this briefing for us all to see decades later
you can find original minutes from these 1940 war cabinet meetings.
Fantastic man I am so proud that he served for out country in the most devastating war in the history of our planet may god rest his soul
"It is the reason I sit in this chair" wow
Look at the subtle power move at 1:12 when Winston puts his hands on his hips, flaring his elbows and raising his shoulders! Great attention to detail.
Watched this in the cinema…..a truly epic film. Gary oldman is masterful
1:22 There’s just something so satisfying about Churchill of all people calling Hitler a maniac.
Such a powerful scene - What fantastic triumphs Churchill ensured.
Absolutely fantastic film.
Churchill did all he could to save the free world.
Not as good as Dunkirk.
Oh my boy! Would never argue that, but a fantastic partner film to see along side it
Meanwhile killed MILLION in INDIA
indian oh shut up.
indian think you would have preferred Nazi rule?
1:38-1:44 oh my Gary Leonard Oldman what brilliance you have bestowed.
This War Room still exists, practically as it was left at the end of WW2. It is a simple room underneath a Government Office in Whitehall (i.e. it isn't an underground bunker). The room is "tended" by the Imperial War Museum. On a documentary about "underground London" a curator showed the narrator of the programme Churchill's chair. On the right-hand armrest there is a round dent caused by Churchill hammering his signet ring into it. On the left-hand armrest there is a half-moon shape where he dug his fingernail. Difficult days.....
One of the greatest performence's of all time
Thank you Gary Oldman and Joe Wright
The British and French garrison in Calais held off the Germans for three bloody days in hand to hand combat, which gave the trapped allied forces at Durkirk time to prepare its defences and evacuation. Respect to the defenders of Calais for their heroic fighting and sacrifice. 🙌😥🥀
@Joshua Grover..... they knew that the Dunkirk encircled men who were more in number would be saved and that they had to die for the British and Third French Empires!
It was are fight fight
I'm an American, and a child of the Reagan era, and I'm still in the debt of the brave warriors that made evacuation possible. Without that, Turing cracking Enigma, American involvement, the fail-whale that was Mussolini, literally NONE of it would be worth a pisshole in a snowbank if not for the great sacrifice of men (and women) almost a century ago.
@@MomMom4Cubs Also without sacrifice of nations of former soviet union, including UKRAINIANS (who made up huge part of the soviet army) who gave their health and lives fighting fascists. You're also in a debt to modernday heroes, our Ukrainian soldiers fighting off modernday fascism while you're safe in the other part of the world.
@@englishandturkce4513 oh shut up, there were no french and british empire then, there was one wannabe empire which is third reich.
This is the clip I ALWAYS watch from the trailer and it stuck in my head for a while and it was truly brought out.
me too
the only one that had the spine, the resolve, the determination to do what needed to be done
The reason behind this scene in all its dignity. Is the reason I can comment 78 years later from my front living room in Edinburgh.
Stannis considering peace talks ?
That's unheard of !
Churchill saw right through halifaxes tricks
Went to the beach at Dunkirk last week - an emotive experience.
2022 - we need another Churchill, because things are getting bad....
the movie is remarkably well done. every time i watch, i catch something new.
I need to watch this all the way. This clip definitely proves that Gary Oldman was good as Churchill
That music that lightly starts playing at 1:58.....really makes the rest of this scene shine so well. It shows how high the military and political stakes were for Churchill.
EDIT: YES! Just found out what song that was. It's called "History Is Listening," and damn is it good!
So interesting how the actor playing Halifax also played the painter who was commissioned to do a portrait of Winston Churchill played by John Lithgow in The Crown TV Show. Pretty sure it was in the same year too, both amazing performances and to me Lithgow portrayed an aging Churchill amazingly
Do you notice how the Navy officers always look chilled. 🤔
Because they know ... dispute the drama
They'll win
@Les H Mahagow "It takes 3 years to build a ship but 300 years to build a tradition" (Mountbatten I believe, in reply when asked why RN vessels ALWAYS engaged the enemy more closely, whatever the odds).
@@ccg8658 Admiral Andrew Cunningham (1883 - 1963)
Don't forget the Merchant Navy. Look up Operation Pedestal. When the broken backed 'Ohio' crawled in to Valletta the Royal Navy Commander in Malta insisted on giving the merchantmen a salute.
The RN was not so chilled when the Bismarck sunk the Hood. They ended up putting everything available into harm's way to secure a victory over that menace.
G E T R E K T
Big Daddy USA, didn't enter the war for anothe eighteen months or more after this event, and Bid Daddy USA had a much SMALLER NAVY than the U.K. until 1942.
And then the U.S. only entered the war because if Britain had fallen the U.S. would have had enemies on both sides of their coast.
COWARDS?, Britain and the Commonwealth were fighting on their own since 1939. What a disgusting Coward you must be.
A masterclass in acting by all concerned.
0:55 -- And this right here was what Hitler was hoping for all along: Strong-arming Britain out of the war. No naval blockade, no involvement of the USA, no entanglements with the British in North Africa, the Balkans, Greece, or Crete, both the Marine Nationale and the Regia Marina intact instead of sunk at Mers-el-Kébir and Taranto respectively... and suddenly the idea of Germany managing to defeat Soviet Russia by the end of 1941 does not look *that* far-fetched anymore.
The music in this is spine-tingling!
Dario Marianelli is a genius!
Stephen Dillane was absolutely brilliant as "The Holy Fox". Oldman's performance was legendary though, but you have to acknowledge the brilliant supporting cast
What a man and thank god he did what he did
I love how 50% of Stephen Dillane's acting career involves being yelled at by Winston Churchill.
01:38 If you close your eyes, you can still hear a bit of Reznov in him
had to love Winnie's backbone when facing utter annihilation, he was great, yes, really
My father was one if those soldiers in Calais but he was "luckly" enough to survive the never ending brutal German onslaugt and became a POW. When he got home and recieve his medals for his service, he threw them on the ground when he recived them in the ceremony and told the heirarcy officers - "you lets us all down" . Lucky his sister was there to pick them off the ground as he walked out. I still have those medals.
“ Victory cannot be achieved without sacrifice Mason” Viktor Reznov- voiced by Gary Oldman who also played Winston Churchill in this
And of course, only Stannis dared to challenge Churchill and only Stannis did not want to sacrifice 4000 good men in a needless slaughter.
nodinitiative no he did that at the blackwater.
and don't forget of the attempt of boltons
He only needed twenty good men.
He is the One True King
Stannis wouldnt have considered peace talks with Hitler.
Even through the heavy makeup, you can still hear Gary Oldman’s iconic voice
Never forget the british and french soldiers who thought to the end at calais to help evacuate Dunkirk. They are always overlooked in the story of Dunkirk.
Gary Oldman is a superb actor he can play anyone
The only reason anyone can claim to have won that war is because Churchill didn’t lose it in ‘39-‘40. I believe he is the greatest statesman of modern history.
Spot on. He didn't lose it.
I disagree. He had tremendous flaws. But he had the biggest balls. People drastically underestimate the preparations and triumph FDR directed and finessed.
The US invasion of Europe would've never worked if they didn't have Great Britain as a staging ground for D-Day. If Halifax had his way US would've had a much harder time getting into Europe. With the Germans not having to fight a 2 front war in Europe they could've totally focused on invading Russia.
Joe McKim try this. Totally synchronized, unthinkable total Nuclear strike. 1945..
@@trentinfield7903 You don't want to win the entire war based on nuclear weapons. I mean at least when we used it on Japan they were on the brink of defeat but were too stubborn to give up. The nuclear weapons more or less just convinced them to finally throw in the towel. And the nuclear weapons of the time they had to be dropped from a bomber plane. Japan was an island nation so you didn't have to fly that far into occupied territory to drop the bombs. But do you think that in 1945 they would've been able to protect a bomber all the way to Germany through occupied territory without the bomber getting shot out of the air ?
A masterpiece of a film and nothing less.
Gary Oldman was... PERFECT.
I keep coming back to this scene.
Gary Oldman truly is the Winston Churchill of the acting world.
As Winston said after the Munich conference: We could have chosen between shame or war, you chose shame and got war.
Ricky Gervais was offered the role of Churchill before Gary Oldman. Can we have a comedy version of darkest hour with Churchill in his chair “vis a vis, yeah, I can win this war AKA for you.”
2:15 that long awkward silence,the stare down, unnerving for some.
When everyone wanted to make a deal with the ememy 1 man stood up and said hell noo
1:11 "the whiphands, geuvesukuevaogrotoveteeepetoo"
And today they wanna tear his statue down. This man saved Europe
Hey I saved Russia and people did the same to me
@D. K. No from someone that openly wanted to exterminate every slav
@D. K. The Soviets didn't do a racially motivated genocide nor wanted to. They took down the Polish army, took down the fascists, took down the capitalists, but at no point did they want to exterminate a race
Soviets and US saved Europe. Otherwise Churchill was screwed. Also they forced Britain to give up its Colonies
@@travisbickle4360 To be fair, the brits did a fair bit themselves almost on par with what the US did. For example, they did a great job in Africa fighting the Italians and Germans. And they also played a major part of holding the Japanese in Asia. Also british and Canadian forces actually outnumbered American troops on D day.
The scene after this one where Nicholson hopelessly reads the order and looks up to the sky makes me cry man. I can’t IMAGINE the weight of, in essence, being told “I’m sorry, but it is time for you and your men to die for your country. No one is coming to save you. Thank you for your sacrifice.” Gives me the shivers!
Stephen Dillane deserves an Oscar for all the work he did replacing his "R"s with "W"s. "Pwime Ministah...I have Weservations". @:40.
This is Churchill's 'Der Untergang' scene
"I take full responsibility"
Imagine hearing that in modern British politics
@G E T R E K T I was really talking about the words not the person saying it.
I don't think he has no.
Gary Oldman put on an acting clinic with this film.
My god, what temper had this Churchill.
One of my favorite scenes in the movie.
0:27 "Victory cannot be achieved without sacrifice!"
@G E T R E K T You mean, "LOL"?
I like to pause the movie after this scene and then go and watch Dunkirk before finishing it.
Bloody hell! Imagine having to make that sort of decision.
It's really a very easy decision, if the sacrifice of 4000 will get you 50,000 of your men back then there is nothing to decide. In the event it got back more than 200,000.
@@mrblack888 Over 300,000 made it back. To me. hell of a damn victory right there
@@mrblack888 50 thousand people maimed or killed is not an "easy decision " . Logical NOT easy .
Excellent acting, Oldman.
As Joey Tribbiani would say: "You're spittin' all over me, man!"
1:38 Halifax is pissing in his chair.
BOY! how we need a man like this today in 2018!
He would Despise England today
Who could have imagined , that when you wrote this in 2018 , that a pandemic would hit ,
and that with all the pandemic politics , we need him even more in 2022 ?
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What superb moviemaking
Churchill rants xD
Very good movie btw
"How many soldiers you expect us to deploy?"
"EVERYONE!"
Amazing performance by a true master of his craft.
Awesome acting skills when he slaps the map sheet.
Has someone spliced Darkest Hour and Dunkirk yet?
Yes
You don't really need to splice them together. Just watch Darkest Hour then watch Dunkirk. They're essentially two parts of the same story.
@@joemckim1183 Exactly 👍.
"IT IS THE REASON I SIT IN THIS CHAIR!....................goosebumps
1:37 “thousands”
Gary Oldman is amazing
what gary oldman?all i can see is Winston Churchill playing Gary Oldman
Chamberlain looks really sick in this scene
Chamberlain at this point in May 1940 was dying from cancer, he would pass away in November 1940, that why he looks frail.
Saw Dunkirk finally, So Great 👍