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MAY 9TH 1940.
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HITLER HAS INVADED CZECHOSLOVAKIA,
POLAND, DENMARK, AND NORWAY.
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3 MILLION GERMAN TROOPS ARE NOW POISED
ON THE BELGIUM BORDER, READY TO CONQUER
THE REST OF EUROPE.
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IN BRITAIN, PARLIAMENT HAS LOST FAITH
IN IT'S LEADER, NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN.
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THE SEARCH FOR A REPLACEMENT
HAS ALREADY BEGUN.
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Order!
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Order!
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Order!
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Mr. Speaker!
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Mr. Speaker!
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Order!
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Leader...
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Order!
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The Leader of the Opposition,
Clement Attlee!
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Mr. Speaker.
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It seems that I have not
been clear enough.
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Then let me leave no doubt
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about my feelings regarding
Mr. Chamberlain’s future
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as Prime Minister.
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Will I right, honourable gentlemen?
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Be quiet!
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Be quiet!
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Be quiet!
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Owing to his years of inactivity
and incompetence,
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we find him personally responsible.../
Incompetence!
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Personally responsible for leaving
this nation ruinously unprepared
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to face the present Nazi peril.
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Order!
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Order!/ Shame. Shame.
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We are at war, Mr. Speaker.
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At war.
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And leaving aside whether he is
fit to be a leader in peace-time.
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He has proven himself
incapable of leading us in wartime.
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Order!
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Order!
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I said order!
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Therefore, in the national interest,
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we the Opposition,
are willing to enter into
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a Grand Coalition with the “ruling”
Conservative Party, so-called...
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Order!
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But not, and I stress, never under
the leadership of Mr. Chamberlain
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who has lost
the confidence of this House!
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In the country’s interest man, resign!
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Step down! And let us find a new leader!
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Shame on you!
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Shame! Shame on you!
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Where is Winston?/ Ensuring his
fingerprints aren't on the murder weapon.
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Order!
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As the Opposition refuse to join
a government headed by me,
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we must now select my successor.
Someone with
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new stands to form
a coalition government.
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I will step down tomorrow.
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But...
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I didn't want my own party, the gentlemen
I most respect, to know first.
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Yes.
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It must be Halifax./ Yeah, yeah.
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There’s no question!
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Our Foreign Secretary.
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Halifax./ Yeah, of course.
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No contest! Halifax.
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Thank you, gentlemen, I appreciate
your confidence however my time
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has not yet come.
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Then who?
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About on whomever the task may fall,
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he shall be required
to explore every avenues.
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Including better Diplomatic talks.
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Indeed.
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Towards the restoration
of peace in Europe.
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Absolutely./ Yeah, yeah.
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Well, gentlemen, there is
only one candidate,
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only one man that
the Opposition will accept.
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Oh, no.
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Oh, surely not./ Completely no.
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No, no, no.
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Not now, this is totally absurdity.
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And if he stretches out his hand
and says, “Gimme”,
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you need to anticipate what he wants,
black pen, red pen, paper, or “Clop”,
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that’s his hole punch.
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"CHAMBERLAIN TO RESIGN”
CHURCHILL EXPECTED TO BE NEW PREMIER
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How selfish to resign, time like this.
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D’you think they’ll take me
to Downing Street? To get the job?
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Not after that Spotted Dick
you served last week, eh?
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He mumbles, so it’s almost
impossible to catch everything.
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And be prepared to type fast,
short bursts and double-spaced,
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he hates single-spaced, hates it!
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Good luck.
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To the French Ambassador.
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With German forces,
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crossing into Holland,
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Holland alone...
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Come on, telegram!
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Holland alone,
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request reassurance,
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that French forces will now move,
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move at once,
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to...
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To protect Belgium.
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Stop.
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French ambassador, sir.
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Monsieur Ambassador!
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Ah. They’ve already invaded Belgium.
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Holland and Belgium.
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I will convey your plea to
the Prime Minister at once.
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Yes...
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The situation is still very confused.
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Yes.
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Goodbye.
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"To the French ambassador."
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"With German..."/ Scrap that.
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New telegram.
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To General Ismay...
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In the...
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What is it now?!/ Your son.
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Randolph, quickly.
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No, last night they said I might be
made Prime Minister today.
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But that was yeterday.
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Let's see what happens today.
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Let's see what...
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Let's see what Neville does today.
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Yes.
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Thank you, my boy.
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Yes.
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Yes, keep buggering on!
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Now...
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To General Ismay./ Ah, General Ismay.
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Sawyers, get rid of this, will you?
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To General Ismay.
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In the light of today's events,
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the time is
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ripe
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for many preparations
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to be...
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Are you...
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Striking those keys in a normal fashion?
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It’s awfully loud,
I can’t hear myself think!
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Read it back.
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"To General Ismay."
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"In the light of today's events,
the time is right..."
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Ripe! Not "right"!
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God's teeth girl!
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I said ripe!
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Ripe - ripe-ripe-ripe!
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The last sentence...
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"The-the time is ripe."
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For.../ "For..."
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For.../ Many... many... many...
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Many, many, many, many...
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How many “many”s did you
write in your compound?!
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One "many"! For...
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For many preparations.../
"For many preparations...
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...to be.../ ...to be made."
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Single-spaced! Single-spaced!
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Were you not briefed, young lady?
Single-spaced?
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Someone set it on single-spaced.
And...
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Then why did you persist?!
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I...
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Tell Evans to send me someone
who can get it right
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the first time! Go, out! Out!
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Ripe!
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T-T-T!
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He shouted at you.
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Did he shout at you?
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No./ He can be an awful brute.
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I-I made too many mistakes.
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I think you were nervous.
And he has a knack
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for drawing out the very worst in
those trying to help him the most.
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Oh it’s not him. It’s me.
He’s... he’s...
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He's a man.
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Like any other.
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Come on...
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Dear?
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The War Cabinet has been called.
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The bloody cat is under the bed again.
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My darling...
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May I tell you something that
I feel you really ought to know?
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I’ve noticed a recent deterioration
in your manner.
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You’re not so kind as you used to be.
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You became rough, sarcastic,
over-bearing and rude.
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Is this about the new girl?
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If the King asks us
to become Prime Minister...
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We don’t know that.../
I don’t want you to be disliked.
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More than I already am?
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My darling, you're on the brink,
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of having tremendous power,
surpassed only by the King.
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With such power you really
must try to be more kind.
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And if possible, calm.
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I want others to love
and respect you, as I do.
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Telegram for Mr. Churchill.
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This is the BBC Home Service.
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Here is a short news bulletin.
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The German army invaded Holland
and Belgium early this morning.
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By land and land parachutes.../
There's a telegram.
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The Armies of the Low Countries
are resisting.
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An appeal for help has been made
to the Allied governments.
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And Brussels says.../
It’s from the Palace.
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...the Allied troops are
moving to their support.
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100 warplanes were seen over Brussels,
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and it's now reported that
in the first raid over Brussels,
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several hundred people
were killed and injured.
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And several buildings
have been destroyed.
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Thank you.
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Miss...?
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Layton.
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You're shaking./ So are you!
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You from excitement, I from terror.
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You've been wanting this
your entire adult life.
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No, since the nursery.
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But do the public want me?
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It’s your own Party to whom
you’ll have to prove yourself.
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I’m getting the job only
because the ship is sinking.
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It's not a gift, it's a revenge.
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Let them see your true qualities.
Your courage...
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My poor judgment./ Your lack of vanity.
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My iron will./ Your sense of humor.
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Ho Ho Ho!
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Now go!/ Go?
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Be.../ Be what?
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Be yourself.
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Myself?
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Which self should I be today?
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One should have had power
when a young man,
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when wits were sharp, sinews strong.
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Oh, well. Lead on, MacDuff.
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When youth departs,
may wisdom prove enough.
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Hardly seems like
there’s a war on at all.
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You know I've never ridden a bus?
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Sir?
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I've never queued for bread.
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I believe I can boil an egg
but only because I've seen it done.
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The only time I tried to
ride the Underground,
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was during the General Strike.
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Clemmie dropped me
at South Kensington station.
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I went down but I got lost,
and came straight back up.
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It was awful.
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Why not Halifax?
I favour Halifax.
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I wanted Halifax.
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The Lords wanted Halifax.
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Perhaps Halifax wanted Halifax.
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Then why have I been forced
to send for Churchill?
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Because he's the only
member of our party,
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who has the support of the Opposition.
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His record is a litany of catastrophe.
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Gallipoli, 25,000 dead.
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The India Policy. Russian Civil War.
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The Gold Standard.
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The-the-the Abdication.
And now this...
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Norway ‘adventure’.
What, eighteen hundred men?
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One aircraft carrier, two cruisers,
seven destroyers and a submarine.
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Winston lacks judgement.
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He was right about Hitler./ But even
a stopped clock is right twice a day.
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First Lord of the Admiralty,
Mr. Winston Churchill!
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Early.
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Keen.
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I accept your resignation,
but I want you to know, how
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cruelly I think you’ve been treated.
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Thank you, Your Majesty.
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This way, my Lord.
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Your Majesty./ Mr. Churchill.
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I believe you know
why I have asked you here today.
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Sir, I simply cannot imagine why.
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It is my duty to invite you to take up
the position of Prime Minister
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of this United Kingdom.
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Will you form a Government?
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I will.
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Very well.
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That was... quite easy.
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Yes, it was.
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I believe we are to meet regularly.
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Once a week, I'm afraid.
How was...
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How if Monday?
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I shall endeavour to be available,
on Mondays./ Four o’clock?
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I nap at 4.
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Is that... permissible?
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No. But necessary.
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I work late.
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Then perhaps lunchtime?
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Lunch?
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Mondays.
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Your Majesty.
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Prime Minister.
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Greetings, gentlemen.
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Mr. Churchill, welcome to number 10.
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Thank you, sir.
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Mr. Churchill, what's your agenda?
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Agenda?
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A glass of Pol Roger.
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Come here, Sir!/
You have your pictures.
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Prime Minister.
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Anthony.
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How was the King?
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Anxious.
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He's never forgive me for supporting his
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brother's marriage
to Wallis Simpson.
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You only have to meet him once a week.
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That’s like saying you only
have to have your tooth pulled
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once a week.
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Composition of your war cabinet?
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Who should sit on it?
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Chamberlain, of course.
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And the Reverend “Holy Fox”.
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Halifax.
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Keeping your enemies close?
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Oh, more than that.
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Without them, the party
will get rid of me.
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Oh! And that sheep
in sheep’s clothing, Attlee.
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Come on Daddy, everyone’s waiting.
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I'll be there in a jiffy, my love.
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I heard that before you were asked,
they offered it to Lord Halifax.
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No, I doubt that.
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Halifax would never turn it down.
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He's the fourth son of an Earl.
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Fourth sons turn nothing down.
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I only wish the position had come
your way in better times, sir.
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You have an enormous task ahead of you.
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My only hope it's not too late.
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I am very much afraid it is.
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But we can only do our best.
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Hip hip.../ Hurray!
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Hip hip./ Hurray!!
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Good heavens, what a frightful sight!
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Oh, a toast!/ Yes, a speech!
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Yes./ The bottle.
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Come here./ Yes.
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My darling husband...
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Some of you might not know of it.
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On the eve of our marriage
I got “cold feet”,
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but as I’d already called off
two engagements
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by the age of 21, I was in danger of
gaining a reputation for being a ‘bolter’,
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and it would’ve been
poor form to call off a third!
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Hear hear./ Lucky for Daddy.
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But the real reason for my
wintry feet was because I knew,
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even then,
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that his priority would be public life.
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It worried a young girl greatly
this wretched thought of
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eternally coming second.
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But so it has proven to be.
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And in due course our children
would have to make their peace
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with this same fact.
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We all did, you see.
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In our own ways.
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00:22:07,198 --> 00:22:12,017
And now, today,
we all received our reward,
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proof that our small sacrifice
was for a far, far greater good.
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I give you, your father,
my beloved husband,
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the Prime Minister.
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Prime Minister!
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Here’s to...
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To not buggering it up.
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00:22:35,608 --> 00:22:37,758
"To not buggering it up!"
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Belgium was a ploy.
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They punched through
the Ardennes into France
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and crossed the Meuse in under 24 hours!
352
00:22:46,911 --> 00:22:48,933
No-one can cross
the Meuse River in 24 hours.
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Apparently the Germans can.
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Look to Chamberlain's handkerchief.
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If he waves it at the end
of Churchill’s speech,
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we show approval.
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If not, keep quiet.
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The Prime Minister!
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Here we go.
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Mr. Speaker.
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On Friday evening last,
I received His Majesty’s commission
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to form a new administration.
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00:24:06,314 --> 00:24:11,969
It was the evident wish and will
of Parliament, and the Nation,
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that this should be conceived
on the broadest possible basis,
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and that it should include all parties.
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00:24:20,274 --> 00:24:21,514
Yes.
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00:24:23,385 --> 00:24:26,135
A War Cabinet has been convened...
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00:24:27,700 --> 00:24:28,450
No...
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00:24:29,398 --> 00:24:30,391
Correction.
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Has been formed.
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"Formed."
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A War Cabinet has been
formed of five members,
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representing with
the Opposition parties,
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and the unity of the Nation.
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00:24:47,785 --> 00:24:48,585
Read.
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00:24:49,308 --> 00:24:51,521
The three party Leaders
have agreed to serve,
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either in the War Cabinet
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Or in high executive office./
...or in high executive office.
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00:24:55,766 --> 00:24:58,010
With this agreement's in placed,
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I now invite the House by the
resolution which stands in my name,
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to record it's approval, and to declare
it's confidence in the new government.
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00:25:16,152 --> 00:25:17,152
Miss?
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00:25:18,107 --> 00:25:20,800
I’m coming out in a state of nature!
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It must be remembered
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that we are in the preliminary stage
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of one of the greatest
battles in history
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and that many preparations
have to be made here at home.
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00:25:42,856 --> 00:25:45,432
Sir, I take up my task
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00:25:45,532 --> 00:25:50,850
with buoyancy and hope
and say to the House,
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as I said to those who have
joined the government.
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00:25:54,671 --> 00:26:02,228
I have nothing to offer,
but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
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00:26:05,261 --> 00:26:08,772
We have before us an ordeal
of the most grievous kind.
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00:26:10,018 --> 00:26:14,251
We have before us many,
many long months of struggle
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00:26:14,513 --> 00:26:15,663
and of suffering.
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00:26:16,667 --> 00:26:19,605
You ask, what is our policy?
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00:26:20,996 --> 00:26:28,807
I say it is to wage war by sea,
land and air, with all our might
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00:26:29,268 --> 00:26:33,532
and with all the strength God
can give us,
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00:26:34,543 --> 00:26:39,430
to wage war against a monstrous tyranny
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00:26:40,319 --> 00:26:45,773
never surpassed in the dark and
lamentable catalogue of human crime.
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00:26:45,873 --> 00:26:48,567
That is our policy.
401
00:26:49,375 --> 00:26:52,150
If you ask, what is our aim?
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00:26:52,919 --> 00:26:55,699
I can answer in one word.
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00:26:57,260 --> 00:26:58,210
Victory.
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00:26:58,990 --> 00:27:04,951
Victory at all costs.
Victory, in spite of all terror.
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00:27:05,628 --> 00:27:10,213
Victory however long and
hard the road may be.
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00:27:10,701 --> 00:27:16,770
For without victory,
there can be no survival.
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00:27:43,358 --> 00:27:44,358
Contempt.
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00:27:45,437 --> 00:27:48,251
Well, you have to start somewhere./
Well, you have to start somewhere.
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00:27:48,252 --> 00:27:49,002
Snap.
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00:27:57,921 --> 00:28:00,752
Our policy is to wage war.
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00:28:01,482 --> 00:28:02,866
At all costs.
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00:28:03,066 --> 00:28:04,672
No survival.
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00:28:04,772 --> 00:28:08,868
Good God, he is incapable of even
pronouncing the word peace,
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00:28:08,968 --> 00:28:11,168
let alone entering into negotiations.
415
00:28:12,399 --> 00:28:14,244
Awful, the thought
that I shall never see
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00:28:14,245 --> 00:28:16,394
my country at peace again.
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00:28:20,189 --> 00:28:21,539
I have cancer.
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00:28:26,459 --> 00:28:27,659
Oh, Neville.
419
00:28:33,375 --> 00:28:35,975
Winston must be removed from office.
420
00:28:36,226 --> 00:28:39,029
If we can get him to declare
that he refuses to even consider
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00:28:39,129 --> 00:28:40,787
peace negotiations with Germany,
422
00:28:40,887 --> 00:28:43,887
then you and I will perhaps
have clear grounds to resign.
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00:28:44,927 --> 00:28:47,530
that will force a vote
of “no confidence”.
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00:28:47,630 --> 00:28:49,113
The party couldn't count for that,
425
00:28:49,213 --> 00:28:51,463
you’re the chairman for heavens sake.
426
00:28:52,091 --> 00:28:53,258
He’ll be finished.
427
00:28:53,358 --> 00:28:56,208
And would you agree
to be Prime Minister?
428
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:57,830
Well...
429
00:28:59,553 --> 00:29:01,253
With Winston out of the way who can say.
430
00:29:01,254 --> 00:29:03,694
But the important thing, Neville,
431
00:29:03,754 --> 00:29:07,204
is that your policies
would be back on the table.
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00:29:07,497 --> 00:29:10,047
Peace and the protection of our nation.
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00:29:10,367 --> 00:29:11,367
On record.
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00:29:12,147 --> 00:29:14,198
I beg a pardon?/
He must declare on record
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00:29:14,298 --> 00:29:17,358
his refusal to engage in peace talks.
436
00:29:18,425 --> 00:29:20,125
We must have it in writing.
437
00:29:55,233 --> 00:29:56,566
WAR OFFICE, LONDON
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00:29:56,666 --> 00:29:58,053
CHURCHILL WAR ROOM - PASS
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00:30:00,068 --> 00:30:00,918
Thank you.
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00:30:03,006 --> 00:30:04,690
Miss Layton./ Good morning.
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00:30:04,790 --> 00:30:05,740
Follow me.
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00:30:19,895 --> 00:30:22,045
Good morning./ Thank you, sir.
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00:30:23,855 --> 00:30:25,155
Thank you, madam.
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00:30:27,619 --> 00:30:29,013
What goes on down here?
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00:30:29,113 --> 00:30:31,763
That’s a need to know. And you don’t.
446
00:30:32,111 --> 00:30:34,711
The lavatory?/ For the PM’s use only.
447
00:30:35,393 --> 00:30:38,243
Sleeping quarters, for
when you miss the last train.
448
00:30:40,557 --> 00:30:41,357
Come.
449
00:30:43,660 --> 00:30:45,360
That's the map room.
450
00:30:46,090 --> 00:30:48,530
No women allowed./
What department is this?
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00:30:48,630 --> 00:30:50,668
Indiscretion in conversation,
or any other form,
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00:30:50,768 --> 00:30:53,095
within or without these rooms
regarding what happens here
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00:30:53,096 --> 00:30:55,838
is a statutory offense and
punishable by up to two years
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00:30:55,938 --> 00:30:57,988
imprisonment with hard labour.
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00:30:58,714 --> 00:31:00,614
Clear?/ Crystal.
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00:31:01,331 --> 00:31:02,081
Good.
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00:31:03,702 --> 00:31:06,802
That's the War Cabinet room.
Never...
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00:31:08,671 --> 00:31:11,071
I Don’t mean to be rough on you but...
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00:31:12,131 --> 00:31:13,381
Them's the rules.
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00:31:15,060 --> 00:31:17,306
This is the typists room.
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00:31:17,406 --> 00:31:19,606
Good morning, sir./ Ladies.
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00:31:21,449 --> 00:31:22,633
And here’s you.
463
00:31:30,739 --> 00:31:33,417
Belgium and Holland
may fall in any hour.
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00:31:33,517 --> 00:31:34,510
The French?
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00:31:34,610 --> 00:31:37,330
The entire French ninth army,
some two hundred thousand men
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00:31:37,430 --> 00:31:38,580
have capitulated.
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00:31:39,025 --> 00:31:39,825
All of them?!
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00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,192
Capitulated. Deserted.
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00:31:42,292 --> 00:31:43,442
It was a rout.
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00:31:43,841 --> 00:31:45,492
All our land forces, roughly
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00:31:45,592 --> 00:31:48,166
300,000 men, are now in full retreat.
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00:31:48,266 --> 00:31:50,410
Air-cover? For our troops?
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00:31:50,510 --> 00:31:52,317
The Luftwaffe control the skies.
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00:31:52,417 --> 00:31:55,121
We simply don’t have
enough planes to challenge them.
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00:31:55,221 --> 00:31:58,371
In fact, I strongly recommend we stop
sending our precious fighter-planes
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00:31:58,471 --> 00:32:00,221
to be wasted in France.
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00:32:00,350 --> 00:32:02,370
Save them for our own defence.
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00:32:02,470 --> 00:32:07,155
And our navy sits idle,
neutralized, useless.
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00:32:07,539 --> 00:32:09,862
Our fleets no sooner
come within their range,
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than we come under
blistering air attack.
481
00:32:13,673 --> 00:32:15,822
Their speed is devastating.
482
00:32:16,634 --> 00:32:19,451
Panzer tanks. Plunging rapidly
westward, through the centre.
483
00:32:19,551 --> 00:32:23,436
But they will have to
pause for fuel supplies.
484
00:32:23,536 --> 00:32:25,251
This is not the last war, Sir.
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00:32:25,351 --> 00:32:28,851
Their tanks can stop for fuel
at a petrol station.
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00:32:29,524 --> 00:32:30,940
Petrol station?
487
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,340
The road to Paris now lies open.
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00:32:33,796 --> 00:32:36,496
7 million refugees are on the move.
489
00:32:37,791 --> 00:32:41,141
Collectively we are looking at the collapse
of Western Europe in a few days.
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00:32:42,183 --> 00:32:44,183
Should the public be told?
491
00:32:50,529 --> 00:32:51,579
Not yet.
492
00:32:52,815 --> 00:32:57,452
First, we must rouse our old friends
to an heroic resistance.
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00:32:58,904 --> 00:33:01,702
France must be saved.
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00:34:07,231 --> 00:34:08,481
Premiere.
[ Prime Minister ]
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00:34:10,346 --> 00:34:13,693
"Although our situation...
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00:34:15,086 --> 00:34:16,874
...is very serious."
497
00:34:19,842 --> 00:34:22,192
"It's not the first time...
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00:34:23,470 --> 00:34:24,470
...that we are...
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00:34:26,315 --> 00:34:27,765
...facing...
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...a crisis...
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00:34:30,533 --> 00:34:31,683
...together."
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00:34:34,905 --> 00:34:37,316
Perhaps in English, Prime Minister.
503
00:34:39,720 --> 00:34:44,696
We have survived
crisis before, and I am...
504
00:34:45,078 --> 00:34:47,328
I'm confident we will survive this one.
505
00:34:48,447 --> 00:34:50,847
Tell me how you plan to counter-attack.
506
00:34:53,048 --> 00:34:54,348
There is no plan.
507
00:34:58,366 --> 00:35:00,437
You must counter-attack!
508
00:35:01,314 --> 00:35:03,258
You... you must...
509
00:35:04,119 --> 00:35:05,207
"You must...
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00:35:07,177 --> 00:35:08,836
...fight!"
511
00:35:09,937 --> 00:35:11,137
"It must!"
512
00:35:11,893 --> 00:35:13,693
I do not believe this...
513
00:35:14,355 --> 00:35:15,305
This...
514
00:35:15,852 --> 00:35:19,266
Panzer breakthrough is a real invasion.
515
00:35:19,366 --> 00:35:21,547
Not a real invasion?/ No...
516
00:35:21,955 --> 00:35:26,028
As long as their tanks are not
supported by infantry units.
517
00:35:26,128 --> 00:35:31,581
They are merely little flags,
stuck on the map,
518
00:35:31,681 --> 00:35:35,013
because the tank crews
cannot support themselves.
519
00:35:35,113 --> 00:35:38,912
No, I refuse to see
in this spectacular raid
520
00:35:39,012 --> 00:35:43,377
of the German tanks, a real invasion!
521
00:35:46,964 --> 00:35:48,164
He's delusional.
522
00:35:48,667 --> 00:35:50,567
Completely delusional.
523
00:35:50,667 --> 00:35:51,949
He's English!
524
00:35:55,473 --> 00:35:56,623
He is an actor.
525
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,123
In love with the sound of his own voice.
526
00:35:59,223 --> 00:36:00,573
Oh I love to listen to him,
527
00:36:01,517 --> 00:36:04,065
but we must never take his advice.
528
00:36:04,165 --> 00:36:06,264
Has a hundred ideas a day.
529
00:36:06,364 --> 00:36:07,514
Four of them are good,
530
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,065
the other 96 downright dangerous.
531
00:36:10,165 --> 00:36:13,315
His father used to say,
a great orator, but...
532
00:36:13,683 --> 00:36:15,842
Until he lost his mind to syphilis.
533
00:36:15,942 --> 00:36:17,329
How nations suffer...
534
00:36:17,429 --> 00:36:20,245
...for the sins of their fathers./
My opinion?
535
00:36:20,345 --> 00:36:22,845
At this critical juncture
for the empire,
536
00:36:24,592 --> 00:36:26,743
we have a drunkard at the wheel.
537
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,800
Wakes with a scotch,
538
00:36:29,909 --> 00:36:32,237
bottle of champagne at lunch,
539
00:36:32,337 --> 00:36:33,737
another at dinner,
540
00:36:34,634 --> 00:36:37,260
brandy and port till the wee hours...
541
00:36:38,081 --> 00:36:40,519
I wouldn’t let him borrow my bicycle!
542
00:36:40,619 --> 00:36:43,269
He’s a Conservative
who defects to the Liberals,
543
00:36:43,417 --> 00:36:45,818
lobs grenades at us for 10 years,
544
00:36:45,918 --> 00:36:48,184
then flops Conservative again,
545
00:36:48,284 --> 00:36:49,834
as it bloody suits him!
546
00:36:49,934 --> 00:36:53,126
Sorry, but he stands for one thing,
547
00:36:53,226 --> 00:36:54,275
himself!
548
00:36:55,146 --> 00:36:57,596
We might have to replace him, Bertie.
549
00:36:59,014 --> 00:37:00,164
Replace him?
550
00:37:00,788 --> 00:37:02,738
We must strive for peace,
551
00:37:03,189 --> 00:37:05,271
so every son and daughter of this land
552
00:37:05,371 --> 00:37:09,021
could emerge from this crisis
with something recognisable as 'home.'
553
00:37:10,939 --> 00:37:13,589
Spoken like a true Prime Minister.
554
00:37:28,472 --> 00:37:30,174
"V" for victory.
555
00:37:32,174 --> 00:37:35,124
Sir, you need to reply
to the Lord Privy Seal.
556
00:37:36,844 --> 00:37:37,894
Yeah, yeah...
557
00:37:38,162 --> 00:37:40,101
Tell the Lord Privy Seal,
558
00:37:40,201 --> 00:37:42,407
I’m sealed in the Privy.
559
00:37:42,915 --> 00:37:44,916
And I can only deal with one
560
00:37:45,016 --> 00:37:46,466
shit at a time.
561
00:37:53,789 --> 00:37:56,065
The broadcast is tonight, so...
562
00:37:56,165 --> 00:37:57,870
Don’t spare me, Anthony...
563
00:37:57,970 --> 00:37:59,070
Be frank.
564
00:38:07,822 --> 00:38:08,922
I don't think so.
565
00:38:09,685 --> 00:38:11,435
You don’t think so, what?
566
00:38:11,757 --> 00:38:14,761
You’re suggesting we’re somehow winning.
567
00:38:14,861 --> 00:38:16,011
We’re not.
568
00:38:16,742 --> 00:38:17,935
No but...
569
00:38:18,639 --> 00:38:20,189
it will inspire them.
570
00:38:20,596 --> 00:38:23,114
Winston, I know.../ Anthony, Anthony.
571
00:38:23,214 --> 00:38:25,272
I am going to imbue them
572
00:38:25,561 --> 00:38:30,310
with a spirit of feeling they don’t
yet know they have!
573
00:38:30,559 --> 00:38:32,459
You asked my opinion.
574
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:34,970
I caution against it.
575
00:38:37,205 --> 00:38:38,155
Cicero.
576
00:38:41,291 --> 00:38:42,241
Cicero!
577
00:38:44,992 --> 00:38:47,335
"...and if fortune is adverse...
578
00:38:48,669 --> 00:38:51,575
...something, something..."
579
00:38:59,630 --> 00:39:01,330
It's not here... I leave it here.
580
00:39:02,767 --> 00:39:03,667
Clemmie!
581
00:39:05,063 --> 00:39:05,963
Cat!
582
00:39:06,178 --> 00:39:07,078
Clemmie!
583
00:39:07,308 --> 00:39:10,307
We cannot pay the bills./
My copy of...
584
00:39:10,407 --> 00:39:13,019
...Cicero. Did you shelve it?/
Did you hear what I said?
585
00:39:13,119 --> 00:39:14,919
What was that?/ We're broke.
586
00:39:15,388 --> 00:39:16,138
Oh...
587
00:39:16,702 --> 00:39:17,502
Out!
588
00:39:17,708 --> 00:39:19,658
Come on! Everybody out!
589
00:39:21,295 --> 00:39:23,593
I dare not write another cheque.
590
00:39:23,693 --> 00:39:25,779
Well, I’ll economise.
591
00:39:25,879 --> 00:39:28,274
Only four cigars a day!
592
00:39:28,453 --> 00:39:30,064
You’re insufferable!
593
00:39:34,747 --> 00:39:36,147
Anything else?
594
00:39:36,899 --> 00:39:37,599
Yes.
595
00:39:38,193 --> 00:39:39,922
My love for you./ Oh!
596
00:39:40,022 --> 00:39:41,972
How much have you had
to drink this morning?
597
00:39:43,626 --> 00:39:45,095
I see you now
598
00:39:46,441 --> 00:39:48,791
as I first saw you
599
00:39:49,257 --> 00:39:51,235
in 1904.
600
00:39:51,488 --> 00:39:54,133
And I simply stood, speechless.
601
00:39:54,233 --> 00:39:57,268
I must have been very beautiful
to have achieved that miraculous effect.
602
00:39:57,368 --> 00:39:59,318
Four years till we saw each other again.
603
00:39:59,754 --> 00:40:01,015
They went by in an absolute flash.
604
00:40:01,115 --> 00:40:03,815
You didn’t lack for admirers, your...
605
00:40:03,987 --> 00:40:07,130
"Loyal attendant" in Sidney Peel.
606
00:40:07,230 --> 00:40:09,830
Brilliant man./ Lionel Earle.
607
00:40:09,998 --> 00:40:11,248
Wonderful dancer.
608
00:40:12,396 --> 00:40:15,096
And then at Lady St Hellier’s
dinner party,
609
00:40:15,398 --> 00:40:16,948
who should show up?
610
00:40:18,363 --> 00:40:19,463
Pig.
611
00:40:21,841 --> 00:40:23,241
Just the same.
612
00:40:34,247 --> 00:40:36,097
Are we terribly old?
613
00:40:36,754 --> 00:40:38,454
Yes. I’m afraid you are.
614
00:40:38,618 --> 00:40:40,068
Oh, you're beast!
615
00:40:40,429 --> 00:40:41,379
I'm...
616
00:40:45,300 --> 00:40:47,837
Will you hear me read my speech
617
00:40:47,937 --> 00:40:49,633
for tonight’s broadcast?
618
00:40:50,837 --> 00:40:53,545
Prime Minister! Prime Minister,
the situation in France,
619
00:40:53,645 --> 00:40:55,711
is it true we're in full retreat?
620
00:40:55,811 --> 00:40:57,411
Is France lost?
621
00:41:04,616 --> 00:41:09,016
Above the bench is the champ's goat,
under the bench is the crack's goat.
622
00:41:09,761 --> 00:41:14,021
If you will sit here, at your desk.
623
00:41:16,082 --> 00:41:18,329
And speak slowly and clearly.
624
00:41:19,733 --> 00:41:20,933
Into the microphone.
625
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:22,569
So...
626
00:41:23,122 --> 00:41:24,272
If you're ready,
627
00:41:24,871 --> 00:41:26,121
on the stroke of 9
628
00:41:26,811 --> 00:41:30,261
the light will come on and
we shall go live to the nation.
629
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:33,410
Nine o'clock.
630
00:41:33,954 --> 00:41:35,004
Red light.
631
00:41:36,492 --> 00:41:37,542
You begin.
632
00:41:38,043 --> 00:41:38,943
Yes?
633
00:41:40,337 --> 00:41:41,387
One moment.
634
00:41:48,453 --> 00:41:49,803
Prime Minister.
635
00:41:49,903 --> 00:41:50,853
Are we ready?
636
00:41:51,271 --> 00:41:52,021
I...
637
00:41:52,947 --> 00:41:54,897
One moment, one moment...
638
00:42:00,657 --> 00:42:03,777
We are going live./
One moment, damn you!
639
00:42:10,937 --> 00:42:11,637
And...
640
00:42:11,861 --> 00:42:12,761
...four,
641
00:42:13,386 --> 00:42:14,086
...three,
642
00:42:14,690 --> 00:42:15,390
...two,
643
00:42:15,898 --> 00:42:16,598
...one.
644
00:42:37,270 --> 00:42:42,238
I speak to you for
the first time as Prime Minister,
645
00:42:43,256 --> 00:42:47,266
in a solemn hour for
the life of our country,
646
00:42:48,323 --> 00:42:49,873
of our Empire,
647
00:42:50,461 --> 00:42:51,961
of our allies,
648
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:53,710
and above all,
649
00:42:54,504 --> 00:42:56,404
of the cause of Freedom.
650
00:42:57,501 --> 00:43:02,534
A tremendous battle is raging
in France and Flanders.
651
00:43:04,429 --> 00:43:08,343
The Germans, by a remarkable combination
652
00:43:08,973 --> 00:43:10,573
of air bombing
653
00:43:10,885 --> 00:43:12,673
and heavily armored tanks,
654
00:43:13,584 --> 00:43:16,184
have broken through the French defenses
655
00:43:16,394 --> 00:43:18,864
north of the Maginot Line,
656
00:43:19,919 --> 00:43:22,769
and strong columns
of their armoured vehicles
657
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:25,670
are ravaging the open country...
658
00:43:26,554 --> 00:43:28,554
Which for the first day or two,
659
00:43:29,042 --> 00:43:30,892
was without defenders.
660
00:43:31,975 --> 00:43:32,875
However...
661
00:43:33,867 --> 00:43:37,100
I have invincible confidence
662
00:43:37,567 --> 00:43:40,367
in the French Army and it's leaders.
663
00:43:41,157 --> 00:43:44,307
Only a very small part
of that splendid Army
664
00:43:44,626 --> 00:43:47,376
has yet been heavily engaged,
665
00:43:47,646 --> 00:43:50,419
only a very small part of France
666
00:43:50,859 --> 00:43:52,509
has yet been invaded.
667
00:43:53,157 --> 00:43:54,578
Side by side,
668
00:43:54,997 --> 00:43:57,692
the British and French peoples
669
00:43:58,055 --> 00:44:00,048
have advanced.../ Advanced?
670
00:44:00,148 --> 00:44:03,689
...to rescue not only Europe,/
How bloody dare he!
671
00:44:03,789 --> 00:44:05,489
...but mankind
672
00:44:05,611 --> 00:44:10,026
from the foulest and most
soul-destroying tyranny
673
00:44:11,343 --> 00:44:13,325
which has ever darkened and stained
674
00:44:13,425 --> 00:44:15,658
the pages of history.
675
00:44:16,271 --> 00:44:19,900
But now one bond unites us all,
676
00:44:20,303 --> 00:44:22,153
to wage war
677
00:44:22,568 --> 00:44:25,081
until victory is won,
678
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:27,856
and never to surrender ourselves
679
00:44:28,490 --> 00:44:30,693
to servitude and shame,
680
00:44:31,859 --> 00:44:33,459
whatever the cost
681
00:44:34,749 --> 00:44:36,749
and the agony may be...
682
00:44:37,379 --> 00:44:39,634
Conquer we must,
683
00:44:40,438 --> 00:44:43,133
as conquer we shall.
684
00:44:50,027 --> 00:44:51,477
Well done, sir.
685
00:45:57,912 --> 00:46:00,612
Oh, I thought you did marvelously.
686
00:46:01,515 --> 00:46:05,433
For the last ten years I was
the only one who told them the truth.
687
00:46:06,381 --> 00:46:07,631
Until tonight.
688
00:46:09,445 --> 00:46:11,245
There's no advance.
689
00:46:13,410 --> 00:46:14,660
It's a shambles.
690
00:46:15,963 --> 00:46:17,663
We're in full retreat.
691
00:46:20,240 --> 00:46:23,421
But would you be serving them tonight
by denying them sleep, and...
692
00:46:23,810 --> 00:46:25,610
Terrifying their children?
693
00:46:25,885 --> 00:46:27,571
Even if the terror is coming?!
694
00:46:27,671 --> 00:46:29,671
Because the terror is coming.
695
00:46:31,686 --> 00:46:33,686
There is time enough for the truth.
696
00:46:43,668 --> 00:46:44,668
Have you seen this?
697
00:46:49,391 --> 00:46:50,891
What’s so funny?
698
00:46:52,253 --> 00:46:53,503
Prime Minister.
699
00:46:53,603 --> 00:46:55,553
Sir./ Yes. What is it?
700
00:46:57,293 --> 00:46:58,193
Perhaps...
701
00:47:02,402 --> 00:47:03,552
Look, I'm...
702
00:47:03,747 --> 00:47:06,247
I'm not sure if you know this but...
703
00:47:06,676 --> 00:47:09,676
The way you are doing
your V for Victory sign.
704
00:47:10,546 --> 00:47:12,784
Well, in the poorer quarters,
705
00:47:12,987 --> 00:47:15,039
that gesture means something else.
706
00:47:15,139 --> 00:47:17,587
What does it mean?/
I wouldn’t like to say, sir.
707
00:47:17,687 --> 00:47:19,918
I was captured by the Boer,
708
00:47:20,018 --> 00:47:23,068
I spent time in a South African prison.
709
00:47:23,292 --> 00:47:24,642
Up yer’ bum.
710
00:47:26,016 --> 00:47:26,916
Sir.
711
00:47:27,620 --> 00:47:29,120
Up yer’ bum?
712
00:47:29,945 --> 00:47:30,895
Up yer’...
713
00:47:34,142 --> 00:47:36,842
The way you do it, sir. Yes sir.
714
00:47:37,591 --> 00:47:40,191
But if you turn it around, that's fine.
715
00:47:42,312 --> 00:47:45,083
Wouldn’t like millions of people
to take it the wrong way.
716
00:47:45,183 --> 00:47:46,333
Oh, I see!
717
00:47:49,624 --> 00:47:50,974
Up yer’ bum!
718
00:47:52,636 --> 00:47:53,789
Your Majesty.
719
00:47:54,420 --> 00:47:56,920
Don’t wish to take too much
of your time.
720
00:47:57,109 --> 00:47:58,959
I heard you on the wireless.
721
00:48:00,389 --> 00:48:02,139
Was I comprehensible?
722
00:48:02,942 --> 00:48:05,442
The public need to be led,
723
00:48:05,918 --> 00:48:09,523
not misled, not left to work
it out for them-themselves.
724
00:48:13,376 --> 00:48:14,226
Right.
725
00:48:15,077 --> 00:48:16,827
Will that be all, Your Majesty?
726
00:48:17,690 --> 00:48:20,040
Yes. Good day Prime Minister.
727
00:48:20,168 --> 00:48:21,418
Good day.
728
00:48:25,011 --> 00:48:28,462
I believe I’ve just recieved
a royal rap on the knuckles.
729
00:48:35,095 --> 00:48:37,269
As of 2200 hours last night,
730
00:48:37,369 --> 00:48:40,369
the Germans have
encircled sixty British,
731
00:48:40,564 --> 00:48:42,199
Belgian and French divisions.
732
00:48:43,829 --> 00:48:46,737
On our part all our forces
under Lord Gort,
733
00:48:46,837 --> 00:48:49,638
have now withdrawn, or are trying
to withdraw to the French coast,
734
00:48:49,639 --> 00:48:50,739
to Dunkirk.
735
00:48:51,267 --> 00:48:54,749
...where we cannot reach them./
How many of our men are trapped?
736
00:48:54,849 --> 00:48:55,649
All of them.
737
00:48:56,502 --> 00:48:59,332
Our country's entire
professional soldiery.
738
00:48:59,432 --> 00:49:02,632
And we can see
no clear way to rescue them.
739
00:49:05,143 --> 00:49:09,707
General, are you telling me
that we shall have lost
740
00:49:10,110 --> 00:49:13,610
the entire British army
by the next few days?
741
00:49:14,596 --> 00:49:15,446
That’s correct.
742
00:49:16,425 --> 00:49:19,598
The German force is
superior in every regard
743
00:49:19,698 --> 00:49:21,784
and are only fifty miles from the coast.
744
00:49:21,884 --> 00:49:23,826
They are pushing us into the sea.
745
00:49:23,926 --> 00:49:27,984
No, the Germans must not reach the sea.
746
00:49:28,107 --> 00:49:31,174
Not before we evacuate our men.
747
00:49:31,832 --> 00:49:33,382
Ismay? What have you got for us?
748
00:49:33,797 --> 00:49:36,590
As it stands, I cannot see
we have much hope of getting any
749
00:49:36,690 --> 00:49:38,640
of our forces out in time.
750
00:49:40,355 --> 00:49:41,655
Not a man?
751
00:49:43,419 --> 00:49:46,219
No, I mean, we cannot be so
752
00:49:46,374 --> 00:49:49,524
totally at their mercy!
What is our next step?
753
00:49:50,482 --> 00:49:51,382
Anyone?
754
00:49:52,659 --> 00:49:53,909
Come on! Speak!
755
00:49:56,839 --> 00:49:59,353
We still have a Garrison at Calais.
25 miles to the west.
756
00:49:59,453 --> 00:50:02,403
How many men do we have there?/
4,000. More or less.
757
00:50:05,555 --> 00:50:07,505
Why didn't you say so?
758
00:50:08,743 --> 00:50:12,103
Yes, then we have them go east,
759
00:50:12,203 --> 00:50:14,497
engage with the German
columns moving on Dunkirk.
760
00:50:14,597 --> 00:50:19,441
Buy us some time.
Draw the Nazi focus away from Dunkirk
761
00:50:19,541 --> 00:50:24,061
whilst we execute a maritime
evacuation of our forces.
762
00:50:24,161 --> 00:50:26,931
Is that possible?/
It would mean a huge sacrifice.
763
00:50:27,031 --> 00:50:31,970
Four thousand young men!/
To save 300,000!
764
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:34,633
Under whose command
is the Calais Garrison?
765
00:50:34,733 --> 00:50:37,283
Brigadier Nicholson./ Very well.
766
00:50:39,201 --> 00:50:42,541
Tell Nicholson that it is of the
greatest importance to this island,
767
00:50:43,038 --> 00:50:45,456
that his garrison draw the enemy’s,
768
00:50:45,556 --> 00:50:48,301
tanks and artillery and
bombers away from Dunkirk.
769
00:50:48,401 --> 00:50:50,366
Invite their wrath and...
770
00:50:52,353 --> 00:50:54,253
Well, to fight on
771
00:50:55,363 --> 00:50:56,463
if needs be...
772
00:51:00,537 --> 00:51:03,737
If needs be until
the destruction of his command.
773
00:51:06,783 --> 00:51:08,033
It's suicide.
774
00:51:20,488 --> 00:51:21,738
Prime Minister.
775
00:51:22,652 --> 00:51:24,002
I have reservations.
776
00:51:24,875 --> 00:51:26,819
Who is free of reservations?
777
00:51:27,227 --> 00:51:29,277
About an unnecessary sacrifice
778
00:51:29,741 --> 00:51:32,291
when there is available alternative.
779
00:51:33,478 --> 00:51:34,778
What an alternative?
780
00:51:35,188 --> 00:51:37,384
Italy have offered
to mediate peace talks
781
00:51:37,484 --> 00:51:39,034
between ourselves and Germany.
782
00:51:39,503 --> 00:51:41,526
I already indicated that
provided the liberty
783
00:51:41,528 --> 00:51:43,638
and independence of
British Empire were assured
784
00:51:44,029 --> 00:51:45,929
we will consider any proposal.
785
00:51:46,248 --> 00:51:48,225
With... with Hitler.
786
00:51:48,736 --> 00:51:51,116
Holding the whip hand,
787
00:51:51,216 --> 00:51:54,142
do you really think he would honour
our liberty and independence?
788
00:51:54,242 --> 00:51:56,242
It would be in
his interest to do so, sir.
789
00:51:56,735 --> 00:51:58,663
Because.../ The only thing to do
790
00:51:58,763 --> 00:52:01,766
is to show that maniac
791
00:52:01,866 --> 00:52:04,612
that he cannot conquer
this island, and for that
792
00:52:04,712 --> 00:52:06,862
we need an army.
General, tell Brigadier Nicholson
793
00:52:06,962 --> 00:52:08,933
the Germans must not reach the sea!
794
00:52:09,033 --> 00:52:12,316
Not before we get our boys off that
795
00:52:12,425 --> 00:52:13,692
bloody beach!
796
00:52:13,792 --> 00:52:15,829
I take full responsibility.
797
00:52:15,929 --> 00:52:18,528
Really?/ Really! Yes, sir!
798
00:52:18,843 --> 00:52:22,684
It is the reason I sit in this chair!
799
00:52:26,114 --> 00:52:28,360
Well, surely before you
take full responsibility
800
00:52:28,361 --> 00:52:31,661
of the death of 4,000 men,
you wish to consider
801
00:52:31,761 --> 00:52:33,466
every available avenue.
802
00:52:37,181 --> 00:52:38,381
What is this?!
803
00:52:39,684 --> 00:52:42,634
What is your mind on the
principle of peace talks, sir?
804
00:52:46,452 --> 00:52:48,638
Do we take it for example, that
805
00:52:48,738 --> 00:52:50,949
you preclude yourself
from even considering
806
00:52:51,049 --> 00:52:53,154
taking part in such negotiations?
807
00:53:13,327 --> 00:53:16,912
I should like to speak
to Viscount Halifax
808
00:53:17,012 --> 00:53:20,606
and Mr. Chamberlain alone.
809
00:53:21,686 --> 00:53:24,236
Issue the order to the Calais Garrison.
810
00:53:25,338 --> 00:53:27,938
Confirm it has been done.
811
00:53:28,077 --> 00:53:29,277
Dismiss.
812
00:53:31,035 --> 00:53:32,986
You too. Come on, out.
813
00:53:35,809 --> 00:53:39,567
Bridges! You, come on, hop it!
Out! Out!
814
00:54:48,823 --> 00:54:54,243
Winston. We are facing
certain defeat on land.
815
00:54:54,545 --> 00:54:56,643
The annihilation of our army
816
00:54:56,743 --> 00:54:58,593
and imminent invasion.
817
00:54:59,624 --> 00:55:01,424
We must be rational.
818
00:55:01,946 --> 00:55:03,938
We are a sea-going nation.
819
00:55:04,270 --> 00:55:07,033
Have been since the Bronze Age.
820
00:55:08,100 --> 00:55:12,654
The Channel is ours,
our moat, our battlement
821
00:55:12,754 --> 00:55:15,636
and the German doesn’t recognise
an expanse of water
822
00:55:15,736 --> 00:55:17,693
greater than a bloody lake!
823
00:55:17,793 --> 00:55:21,171
They have first to reach
this island, Edward.
824
00:55:21,291 --> 00:55:24,090
Where are men, women, and children,
whom we will have failed
825
00:55:24,190 --> 00:55:26,384
despicably, in our duty of protection
826
00:55:26,504 --> 00:55:29,233
will be entirely defenceless./
And who's fault is that?
827
00:55:29,333 --> 00:55:32,374
Against the largest army
the world has ever seen
828
00:55:32,494 --> 00:55:34,002
Furthermore, once France falls,
829
00:55:34,102 --> 00:55:36,933
Germany can concentrate
on aircraft production
830
00:55:37,033 --> 00:55:39,200
and they will then have
the French fleet as well.
831
00:55:39,300 --> 00:55:41,979
What is to stop Hitler then, Winston?
832
00:55:42,079 --> 00:55:45,208
Words? Words? Words alone?
833
00:55:47,405 --> 00:55:49,441
If you will not permit
any talk of peace then I
834
00:55:49,541 --> 00:55:52,639
shall be forced.../
Might we not allow Edward
835
00:55:52,759 --> 00:55:56,503
simply to meet the Italian
ambassador, Bastianini,
836
00:55:56,799 --> 00:55:59,508
discuss their possible role as mediators
837
00:55:59,608 --> 00:56:01,773
between us and Germany,
838
00:56:03,346 --> 00:56:05,542
and find out their price?
839
00:56:21,805 --> 00:56:22,705
Sir.
840
00:56:43,088 --> 00:56:44,524
Mr. President.
841
00:56:44,624 --> 00:56:45,524
Winston!
842
00:56:45,721 --> 00:56:46,964
Franklin!
843
00:56:48,151 --> 00:56:49,101
How are you?
844
00:56:49,389 --> 00:56:52,354
Fine. Fine.
How are you, Prime Minister?
845
00:56:52,654 --> 00:56:55,554
Oh, I'm in fine, Franklin...
846
00:56:57,172 --> 00:56:58,000
Listen...
847
00:56:58,100 --> 00:57:01,863
I'm telephoning about your...
848
00:57:01,963 --> 00:57:03,363
Navy ships.
849
00:57:03,582 --> 00:57:05,582
If you could to loan us just
850
00:57:06,481 --> 00:57:10,078
50 older Destroyers.../
Ah, yes.
851
00:57:10,573 --> 00:57:12,423
Even 40 would do.
852
00:57:12,806 --> 00:57:13,933
Well, I...
853
00:57:14,599 --> 00:57:16,131
I did ask around,
854
00:57:17,091 --> 00:57:19,911
but just not possible I’m afraid.
855
00:57:20,594 --> 00:57:24,747
The Neutrality Act we signed
last year has tied my hands.
856
00:57:25,365 --> 00:57:26,965
Just can’t swing it.
857
00:57:27,128 --> 00:57:29,757
I tried./ Then, can I...
858
00:57:32,226 --> 00:57:38,579
Do I have your permission
to send an aircraft carrier
859
00:57:38,679 --> 00:57:41,929
to pick up the P-40 fighter planes
we purchased from you?
860
00:57:46,209 --> 00:57:47,609
Mr. President?
861
00:57:48,635 --> 00:57:50,285
You got me there again.
862
00:57:51,061 --> 00:57:55,091
New law preventing trans-shipment
of military equipment.
863
00:57:55,363 --> 00:57:57,413
But we’ve paid for them.
864
00:57:57,874 --> 00:58:00,468
We... we've paid for them
with the money that we...
865
00:58:00,568 --> 00:58:02,168
That we borrowed from you.
866
00:58:02,357 --> 00:58:05,070
I'm so, so sorry, Winston.
867
00:58:09,961 --> 00:58:12,775
I need not impress upon you with
868
00:58:13,957 --> 00:58:17,644
trouble faced by the Western Hemisphere.
869
00:58:19,773 --> 00:58:23,223
Without your support, in some fashion..
870
00:58:23,323 --> 00:58:24,757
I know. I know.
871
00:58:25,543 --> 00:58:27,783
You are on my mind day and night.
872
00:58:30,744 --> 00:58:31,592
Look.
873
00:58:32,015 --> 00:58:34,162
We could, possibly...
874
00:58:34,577 --> 00:58:36,251
Mr. President.
875
00:58:36,474 --> 00:58:37,916
I mean to say...
876
00:58:38,016 --> 00:58:43,197
We are facing the gravest odds.
877
00:58:43,317 --> 00:58:44,896
We could take your planes
878
00:58:44,996 --> 00:58:47,496
to about a mile from
the Canadian border,
879
00:58:48,510 --> 00:58:52,755
and then if you send across
a team of horses from Canada,
880
00:58:53,372 --> 00:58:54,829
nothing motorized,
881
00:58:54,953 --> 00:58:58,453
then you could pull 'em
over the border yourself.
882
00:58:59,792 --> 00:59:01,263
How does that sound?
883
00:59:04,973 --> 00:59:05,934
Horses?
884
00:59:07,827 --> 00:59:12,487
You did say “a team of horses”?
885
00:59:13,565 --> 00:59:16,065
Well, I guess you could
push ‘em yourself.
886
00:59:16,873 --> 00:59:19,026
The damn things have wheels.
887
00:59:21,697 --> 00:59:22,676
Up to you.
888
00:59:26,716 --> 00:59:28,918
We could do that, Prime Minister.
889
00:59:32,837 --> 00:59:33,990
Prime Minister?
890
00:59:38,768 --> 00:59:43,426
Anything you can do at this time
would be most welcome.
891
00:59:44,314 --> 00:59:46,314
Goodnight to you, Winston.
892
00:59:47,159 --> 00:59:48,759
It must be late there.
893
00:59:50,116 --> 00:59:55,552
In more ways than
you could possibly know.
894
01:00:29,457 --> 01:00:30,707
Prime Minister.
895
01:00:30,848 --> 01:00:32,098
Prime Minister.
896
01:00:40,632 --> 01:00:43,219
Get me Admiral Ramsay on one of these.
897
01:00:43,827 --> 01:00:45,197
Yes, Prime Minister.
898
01:00:46,234 --> 01:00:47,995
Winston to Admiral Ramsay.
899
01:01:07,453 --> 01:01:08,771
Admiral Ramsay!
900
01:01:08,871 --> 01:01:10,421
It’s the Prime Minister.
901
01:01:11,790 --> 01:01:12,640
Bertie?
902
01:01:13,804 --> 01:01:14,654
Bertie.
903
01:01:15,416 --> 01:01:17,051
I hope I didn’t wake you.
904
01:01:17,151 --> 01:01:19,851
Not at all.
I was just reading the Bible.
905
01:01:20,537 --> 01:01:21,437
Exodus?
906
01:01:23,199 --> 01:01:26,961
Listen, Bertie, we need
to evacuate our boys.
907
01:01:27,710 --> 01:01:32,019
The Navy is saying that with one cruiser
and six destroyers, and with the
908
01:01:32,478 --> 01:01:34,938
Luftwaffe controlling the skies above,
909
01:01:35,038 --> 01:01:37,524
we'll be lucky to get 10% out.
910
01:01:37,624 --> 01:01:42,379
I want you to order
an assembly of boats.
911
01:01:44,732 --> 01:01:45,682
Boats?
912
01:01:46,106 --> 01:01:46,969
Yes...
913
01:01:47,732 --> 01:01:49,232
Civilian boats.
914
01:01:49,448 --> 01:01:51,985
As many as you can get your hands on.
915
01:01:52,205 --> 01:01:54,770
Longley's clipper,
Fearnley's gin palace,
916
01:01:54,870 --> 01:01:58,653
anyone with a pleasure craft bigger
than 30 foot that can get to France.
917
01:02:01,958 --> 01:02:03,608
Bertie, you still there?
918
01:02:04,885 --> 01:02:05,803
All right.
919
01:02:07,625 --> 01:02:10,658
Help me stage this thing, Bertie.
920
01:02:12,031 --> 01:02:15,931
We must at least try to bring
some of our boys home.
921
01:02:16,618 --> 01:02:19,168
I will have the BBC issue the order.
922
01:02:19,345 --> 01:02:20,195
Good.
923
01:02:21,622 --> 01:02:23,272
Bertie, you still there?
924
01:02:24,069 --> 01:02:24,972
Sir?
925
01:02:25,072 --> 01:02:28,849
We need a name, for this operation.
926
01:02:31,922 --> 01:02:32,866
Good morning, Prime Minister.
927
01:02:32,966 --> 01:02:35,235
Prime Minister, do you have
anything to explain this morning?
928
01:02:35,335 --> 01:02:36,861
Prime Minister, Mr. Jefferson...
929
01:02:36,961 --> 01:02:38,311
Prime Minister.
930
01:02:38,713 --> 01:02:39,696
Prime Minister!
931
01:02:39,796 --> 01:02:42,600
Prime Minister are you.../
Prime Minister! Wait!
932
01:02:49,907 --> 01:02:52,107
How do you manage
drinking during the day?
933
01:02:56,849 --> 01:02:58,399
Practice.
934
01:03:16,787 --> 01:03:17,537
I...
935
01:03:18,507 --> 01:03:20,399
Should like to discuss.
936
01:03:20,945 --> 01:03:22,395
I have been asked if
937
01:03:22,518 --> 01:03:24,360
plans should be drawn to
938
01:03:24,460 --> 01:03:28,569
evacuate myself... my family to Canada.
939
01:03:29,765 --> 01:03:32,570
I would like to know the opinion
of our Prime Minister.
940
01:03:34,046 --> 01:03:38,066
My opinion would be that you must do
what you feel is right for yourself,
941
01:03:38,955 --> 01:03:40,455
your family,
942
01:03:40,971 --> 01:03:42,221
and the nation.
943
01:03:43,461 --> 01:03:45,701
Your survival is paramount.
944
01:03:47,149 --> 01:03:48,599
Prime Ministers,
945
01:03:48,951 --> 01:03:52,301
we seem to come and go
at an astonishing rate.
946
01:03:52,882 --> 01:03:55,514
Your position in Parliament...
947
01:03:56,593 --> 01:03:58,543
I'm told isn't strong.
948
01:04:00,482 --> 01:04:01,682
My party,
949
01:04:02,899 --> 01:04:05,105
resents in the way
950
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:08,417
Chamberlain was pushed aside.
951
01:04:08,683 --> 01:04:10,498
And many others doubt me.
952
01:04:10,598 --> 01:04:12,272
They want Halifax still.
953
01:04:12,372 --> 01:04:14,645
But why get rid of the organ grinder
954
01:04:14,745 --> 01:04:16,224
and replace him with the monkey?
955
01:04:16,225 --> 01:04:19,015
Lord Halifax is a close
personal friend of mine!
956
01:04:25,262 --> 01:04:26,827
I'm unwanted.
957
01:04:29,914 --> 01:04:33,320
I’ve never been trusted
since the Gallipoli campaign.
958
01:04:34,713 --> 01:04:35,779
Unwanted.
959
01:04:36,795 --> 01:04:39,035
Perhaps it's because you scare people.
960
01:04:39,214 --> 01:04:39,888
Who?
961
01:04:40,482 --> 01:04:41,633
You scare me.
962
01:04:42,759 --> 01:04:43,912
What?! What nonsense.
963
01:04:46,287 --> 01:04:49,531
What could possibly be scary about me?
964
01:04:49,715 --> 01:04:52,560
One never knows what is going to
come out of your mouth next.
965
01:04:52,725 --> 01:04:56,315
Something that will flatter,
something that will wound.
966
01:05:01,690 --> 01:05:05,469
My emotions are unbridled.
967
01:05:07,072 --> 01:05:09,612
A wildness. In the blood.
968
01:05:09,712 --> 01:05:12,850
I share it with my father.
969
01:05:14,127 --> 01:05:15,692
My mother also.
970
01:05:16,893 --> 01:05:20,176
We lack the gift of temperance.
971
01:05:22,395 --> 01:05:24,113
Were you close to your parents?
972
01:05:24,213 --> 01:05:27,511
My mother was glamorous.
973
01:05:29,075 --> 01:05:31,325
But perhaps too widely loved.
974
01:05:33,085 --> 01:05:35,539
My father was like God.
975
01:05:36,619 --> 01:05:38,076
Busy elsewhere.
976
01:06:21,888 --> 01:06:23,388
Good day, gentlemen.
977
01:06:23,532 --> 01:06:28,348
I’ve asked the Minister for War
to join us.
978
01:06:30,165 --> 01:06:31,515
Neville, you sit on there.
979
01:06:32,270 --> 01:06:33,170
Anthony.
980
01:06:35,695 --> 01:06:40,371
Obviously, we are in
a dangerous situation.
981
01:06:40,848 --> 01:06:43,762
But I am assured by the French Premiere
that while some
982
01:06:44,868 --> 01:06:48,568
German tank units have reached the sea,
983
01:06:48,668 --> 01:06:51,647
the situation generally seems
to be well in hand.
984
01:06:51,854 --> 01:06:53,893
What news from Calais?
985
01:06:54,013 --> 01:06:55,767
The Garrison attacked,
but was forced back,
986
01:06:55,867 --> 01:06:58,317
and is now surrounded on all sides.
987
01:06:59,046 --> 01:07:01,720
They are being shelled
and bombed mercilessly.
988
01:07:01,877 --> 01:07:04,227
Casualties are at sixty percent.
989
01:07:14,899 --> 01:07:16,052
Prime Minister.
990
01:07:16,911 --> 01:07:19,209
The question of peace talks.
991
01:07:19,707 --> 01:07:21,686
We must hold our nerve.
992
01:07:22,085 --> 01:07:26,101
Signal only that we're intend
to fight it out into the end.
993
01:07:26,821 --> 01:07:30,892
A peace offer telegraphs
our weakness./ Agreed.
994
01:07:30,992 --> 01:07:32,214
And even if we were beaten,
995
01:07:32,314 --> 01:07:35,972
we should be no worse off than we should be
if we were now to abandon the struggle.
996
01:07:36,529 --> 01:07:39,487
Let us therefore avoid
being dragged down
997
01:07:39,587 --> 01:07:43,798
the slippery slope
with talk of a negotiated peace.
998
01:07:43,898 --> 01:07:45,198
Slippery slope?
999
01:07:45,298 --> 01:07:47,676
The only.../
I suspect Italy and Germany...
1000
01:07:47,776 --> 01:07:51,296
The only slippery slope.../ ...want to
get us so deeply involved in negotiations
1001
01:07:51,396 --> 01:07:53,924
that we should be unable to turn back.
1002
01:07:54,024 --> 01:07:55,642
Nonsense! Bastianini informed me...
1003
01:07:55,742 --> 01:07:57,541
I propose.../
The only slippery slope...
1004
01:07:57,641 --> 01:08:01,242
Will you stop interrupting me
while I am interrupting you?!
1005
01:08:05,236 --> 01:08:06,805
When I chose my War Cabinet,
1006
01:08:06,905 --> 01:08:10,166
I took great care to surround
myself with old rivals.
1007
01:08:11,630 --> 01:08:13,100
I may have overdone it.
1008
01:08:14,166 --> 01:08:18,102
Viscount Halifax,
the approach you proposed is...
1009
01:08:18,321 --> 01:08:21,105
It's not only... it's futile,
1010
01:08:21,879 --> 01:08:24,000
but involves us in a deadly danger.
1011
01:08:24,161 --> 01:08:29,835
The deadly danger here is this
romantic fantasy of fighting to the end.
1012
01:08:31,883 --> 01:08:33,233
What is “the end”?
1013
01:08:34,130 --> 01:08:36,573
If not the destruction of all thing?
1014
01:08:37,485 --> 01:08:39,606
There is nothing heroic
in going down fighting
1015
01:08:39,706 --> 01:08:41,156
if it can be avoided.
1016
01:08:41,313 --> 01:08:44,861
Nothing even remotely patriotic
in death or glory
1017
01:08:44,961 --> 01:08:47,069
if the odds are on the former.
1018
01:08:47,169 --> 01:08:50,145
Nothing inglorious in trying
to shorten a war
1019
01:08:50,245 --> 01:08:52,886
that we are clearly losing./ Losing?
1020
01:08:52,986 --> 01:08:55,836
Europe is still.../ Europe is lost!
1021
01:09:03,102 --> 01:09:06,702
And before our forces
are wiped out completely,
1022
01:09:07,252 --> 01:09:09,102
now is the time to negotiate,
1023
01:09:09,315 --> 01:09:12,515
in order to obtain the
best conditions possible.
1024
01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:16,368
Hitler would not interests to insist
on outrageous terms.
1025
01:09:16,468 --> 01:09:18,218
He will know his own weaknesses.
1026
01:09:18,617 --> 01:09:21,626
He will be reasonable./
When will the lesson be learned?
1027
01:09:21,726 --> 01:09:24,100
When will the lesson be learned?
1028
01:09:25,423 --> 01:09:31,383
How many more dictators must be
wooed, appeased...
1029
01:09:31,483 --> 01:09:33,401
Good God, given immense privileges,
1030
01:09:33,501 --> 01:09:35,130
before we learn.
1031
01:09:35,798 --> 01:09:41,443
You can’t reason with a tiger
when your head is in it's mouth!
1032
01:09:43,456 --> 01:09:44,706
Prime Minister!
1033
01:09:45,353 --> 01:09:46,253
Winston!
1034
01:09:46,720 --> 01:09:47,620
Winston!
1035
01:09:48,682 --> 01:09:51,557
Yesterday you gave permission for.../
What permission?
1036
01:09:51,657 --> 01:09:53,242
For me to meet Bastianini.
1037
01:09:53,342 --> 01:09:56,246
I sanctioned theoretical exploration.../
Theoretical?
1038
01:09:56,346 --> 01:09:58,346
...of what price Italy would ask.
1039
01:09:58,446 --> 01:10:00,441
Nothing more. I did not sanction.../
If you will not allow any further
1040
01:10:00,541 --> 01:10:02,458
exploration of a peace agreement,
1041
01:10:02,558 --> 01:10:04,322
then you will have my resignation.
1042
01:10:04,422 --> 01:10:05,643
Oh, don’t be absurd.
1043
01:10:05,743 --> 01:10:09,132
I need you, Edward, you know I do./
I will not stand by
1044
01:10:09,383 --> 01:10:11,925
to watch another generation of young men
1045
01:10:12,025 --> 01:10:14,699
die at the bloody altar of your hubris!
1046
01:10:14,799 --> 01:10:17,082
And you would have us die as lambs!
1047
01:10:17,197 --> 01:10:18,664
Was Gallipoli not enough for you?
1048
01:10:18,764 --> 01:10:20,114
How dare you!
1049
01:10:20,691 --> 01:10:24,274
Our troops were chewing
barbed wire in Flanders!
1050
01:10:24,374 --> 01:10:26,074
And I saw it!
1051
01:10:26,831 --> 01:10:30,542
Opening a second front,
outflanking the Turks was
1052
01:10:30,768 --> 01:10:34,521
a serious military idea and
it could’ve damn-well worked if
1053
01:10:34,621 --> 01:10:36,664
if the Admirals and the First Sea Lord
1054
01:10:36,764 --> 01:10:39,814
hadn’t dithered away
our element of surprise!
1055
01:10:44,457 --> 01:10:46,257
The choice is yours, Winston.
1056
01:10:46,734 --> 01:10:50,384
You have 24 hours to enter
into peace talks, or I resign.
1057
01:11:04,563 --> 01:11:05,716
I told him.
1058
01:11:06,646 --> 01:11:08,016
It shook him.
1059
01:11:08,524 --> 01:11:09,636
Imagine it did.
1060
01:11:10,320 --> 01:11:11,813
Gave him 24 hours.
1061
01:11:11,933 --> 01:11:13,648
I don’t expect him to agree,
1062
01:11:13,748 --> 01:11:15,941
so I should resign first.
You then follow.
1063
01:11:16,041 --> 01:11:19,616
That’s critical if we are to trigger
a revolt to new confirm of the House.
1064
01:11:19,984 --> 01:11:21,334
I should announce it.
1065
01:11:23,174 --> 01:11:24,674
The King will back us.
1066
01:11:41,437 --> 01:11:42,590
Prime Minister.
1067
01:11:42,836 --> 01:11:45,902
I wonder if we might schedule you
to address the Outer Cabinet?
1068
01:11:47,306 --> 01:11:49,913
Today, the Admiralty have made
an Order requesting
1069
01:11:50,013 --> 01:11:52,465
all owners of self-propelled
pleasure craft,
1070
01:11:52,565 --> 01:11:55,077
between 30' and 100' in length,
1071
01:11:55,197 --> 01:11:58,515
to send all particulars
to the Admiralty, immediately.
1072
01:11:58,615 --> 01:12:00,342
To Brigadier Nicholson.
1073
01:12:03,901 --> 01:12:05,880
30th Infantry Brigade.
1074
01:12:07,096 --> 01:12:07,901
Calais.
1075
01:12:11,104 --> 01:12:12,154
Every hour
1076
01:12:13,574 --> 01:12:15,874
you continue to exist
1077
01:12:17,144 --> 01:12:18,944
is of the greatest help
1078
01:12:20,075 --> 01:12:22,155
to our forces at Dunkirk.
1079
01:12:25,354 --> 01:12:26,804
Have the greatest
1080
01:12:27,528 --> 01:12:28,578
possible
1081
01:12:28,871 --> 01:12:29,971
admiration
1082
01:12:31,120 --> 01:12:33,300
for your splendid stand.
1083
01:12:38,321 --> 01:12:40,517
Your evacuation however
1084
01:12:41,308 --> 01:12:43,480
will not take place.
1085
01:12:49,689 --> 01:12:50,639
I repeat...
1086
01:12:53,523 --> 01:12:54,873
Will not take place.
1087
01:13:03,709 --> 01:13:04,709
Signed.
1088
01:13:20,436 --> 01:13:21,286
Here.
1089
01:13:21,485 --> 01:13:22,335
Here!
1090
01:13:25,872 --> 01:13:27,222
May I be excused?
1091
01:13:27,556 --> 01:13:28,506
You may not!
1092
01:13:30,920 --> 01:13:32,270
What is this about?
1093
01:13:35,243 --> 01:13:37,193
No one tells us anything.
1094
01:13:38,813 --> 01:13:40,813
It’s all classified.
1095
01:13:42,524 --> 01:13:45,924
We hear scraps and it’s worse
than knowing nothing.
1096
01:13:50,074 --> 01:13:51,624
What would you like to know?
1097
01:13:59,510 --> 01:14:01,811
How many men will survive?
1098
01:14:09,111 --> 01:14:10,261
Come with me.
1099
01:14:18,874 --> 01:14:21,164
I’m not allowed in the Map Room./
You are now.
1100
01:14:21,264 --> 01:14:22,452
Prime Minister.
1101
01:14:22,552 --> 01:14:24,899
Prime Minister./ At ease, gentlemen.
1102
01:14:26,450 --> 01:14:27,375
Now.
1103
01:14:30,339 --> 01:14:33,190
The German army controls
every French port,
1104
01:14:33,310 --> 01:14:35,747
except Dunkirk, here, and
Calais, here to the west,
1105
01:14:35,847 --> 01:14:38,401
where the garrison
under Brigadier Nicholson,
1106
01:14:38,501 --> 01:14:42,480
is drawing fire and delaying
the German advance on Dunkirk.
1107
01:14:42,707 --> 01:14:44,207
At both points,
1108
01:14:44,565 --> 01:14:46,765
our troops are encircled.
1109
01:14:47,065 --> 01:14:50,193
We’re still trying to
clear Dunkirk harbour,
1110
01:14:50,293 --> 01:14:53,070
of wrecked ships so we can
then land the boats we need
1111
01:14:53,170 --> 01:14:55,972
to get our boys off those beaches, but
1112
01:14:56,072 --> 01:14:58,374
enemy aircraft is
attacking us constantly.
1113
01:14:58,474 --> 01:15:01,098
Our only hope in Dunkirk is
1114
01:15:01,198 --> 01:15:03,198
thick cloud cover
1115
01:15:03,359 --> 01:15:06,559
to thwart these attacks,
but the skies remain clear.
1116
01:15:07,131 --> 01:15:08,098
Even then,
1117
01:15:08,889 --> 01:15:11,277
I am told we will need
1118
01:15:11,377 --> 01:15:15,327
a miracle to get even
10% of our men out.
1119
01:15:17,956 --> 01:15:20,077
Courage, Miss Layton.
1120
01:15:21,691 --> 01:15:22,641
Courage.
1121
01:15:23,404 --> 01:15:24,354
General.
1122
01:15:24,862 --> 01:15:27,112
How long have they got,
1123
01:15:28,609 --> 01:15:30,409
if we don’t rescue them?
1124
01:15:33,442 --> 01:15:34,142
One,
1125
01:15:35,033 --> 01:15:36,033
maybe...
1126
01:15:37,352 --> 01:15:38,402
Two days.
1127
01:15:44,558 --> 01:15:47,257
News from Calais.
The 13th Infantry, sir.
1128
01:15:47,357 --> 01:15:49,052
They’ve retreated to the town’s citadel.
1129
01:15:49,053 --> 01:15:51,802
As a last and probably hopeless stand.
1130
01:15:51,902 --> 01:15:54,552
The order “Everyman for himself"
has been given.
1131
01:15:54,838 --> 01:15:57,888
Brigadier Nicholson, there's
a telegram, sir./ Thank you.
1132
01:16:03,175 --> 01:16:04,175
All right.
1133
01:16:04,578 --> 01:16:06,278
Let's do this, well done.
1134
01:16:21,807 --> 01:16:24,157
All right, man?/ All right.
1135
01:16:36,674 --> 01:16:39,124
Your evacuation however
1136
01:16:39,611 --> 01:16:41,978
will not take place.
1137
01:16:44,071 --> 01:16:46,906
I repeat, it will not take place.
1138
01:17:14,100 --> 01:17:15,990
CALAIS FALLEN.
1139
01:17:16,090 --> 01:17:19,297
NUMBERS OF DEAD OR CAPTURED UNCERTAIN.
SIGNED BY GENERAL GORT.
1140
01:17:34,445 --> 01:17:35,989
Go to bed, Pig.
1141
01:17:37,949 --> 01:17:39,099
You must sleep.
1142
01:17:42,189 --> 01:17:43,697
Leave me, Clemmie.
1143
01:17:44,446 --> 01:17:47,846
The opportunity for doing so
passed a long time ago.
1144
01:18:18,903 --> 01:18:19,953
Operator.
1145
01:18:20,126 --> 01:18:21,570
How do I direct your call?
1146
01:18:21,670 --> 01:18:23,770
Get me Ramsay./ One minute.
1147
01:18:25,877 --> 01:18:27,477
Bertie?/ Sir?
1148
01:18:27,577 --> 01:18:29,077
What’s been the response?
1149
01:18:29,177 --> 01:18:30,483
It will take time.
1150
01:18:30,583 --> 01:18:32,117
It’s too soon to judge.
1151
01:18:32,118 --> 01:18:33,614
How many boats so far?
1152
01:18:33,714 --> 01:18:35,361
Winston, it will take time.
1153
01:18:35,461 --> 01:18:38,911
The request for civilian boats, Bertie,
was not a request.
1154
01:18:39,178 --> 01:18:40,736
It was an order!
1155
01:18:57,234 --> 01:18:59,284
Miss Layton./ Sir.
1156
01:18:59,384 --> 01:19:01,293
I need to reach...
1157
01:19:01,816 --> 01:19:03,216
To reach...
1158
01:19:03,745 --> 01:19:05,095
Speak to...
1159
01:19:07,103 --> 01:19:07,777
To?
1160
01:19:08,712 --> 01:19:09,559
3pm.
1161
01:19:09,659 --> 01:19:11,009
3pm, sir?
1162
01:19:12,091 --> 01:19:12,791
Yes.
1163
01:19:13,887 --> 01:19:16,369
Yes. Ask Bridges to summon the uh...
1164
01:19:18,415 --> 01:19:22,195
The War Cabinet at 3pm. Thank you.
1165
01:19:26,732 --> 01:19:27,632
Sir.
1166
01:19:28,386 --> 01:19:30,586
From Lord Gort, in France, sir.
1167
01:19:35,903 --> 01:19:37,771
Belgium has fallen.
1168
01:19:39,978 --> 01:19:43,243
They will surrender at midnight.
1169
01:19:46,262 --> 01:19:48,371
France will soon follow suit.
1170
01:20:01,196 --> 01:20:03,977
We have received reports that
the most probable method attack
1171
01:20:04,077 --> 01:20:07,212
which Germany might employ
against this country
1172
01:20:07,312 --> 01:20:09,535
is a large fleet of fast motor boats,
1173
01:20:09,635 --> 01:20:11,131
possibly up to 200,
1174
01:20:11,231 --> 01:20:13,676
carrying 100 men apiece
to carry out a seaborne raid
1175
01:20:13,776 --> 01:20:15,026
on a large scale.
1176
01:20:15,448 --> 01:20:17,571
By this means a considerable
force of the enemy
1177
01:20:17,671 --> 01:20:19,795
could be landed
at many points on the coast
1178
01:20:19,895 --> 01:20:22,895
simultaneously with
air-borne raids inland.
1179
01:20:23,328 --> 01:20:26,787
We do not feel that
by naval or air action
1180
01:20:26,887 --> 01:20:29,287
we could prevent such a landing.
1181
01:20:31,708 --> 01:20:33,108
Could you repeat that?
1182
01:20:33,883 --> 01:20:37,231
We must prepare for the imminent
invasion of our island.
1183
01:20:40,923 --> 01:20:44,273
We must prepare for the imminent
invasion of our island.
1184
01:20:44,426 --> 01:20:46,871
We recommend that
the country should be warned
1185
01:20:46,971 --> 01:20:49,136
and drawn to
the immediate danger,
1186
01:20:49,236 --> 01:20:51,747
and that all personnel
require to put Britain
1187
01:20:51,748 --> 01:20:56,768
in a state of defense should be
mobilized. Wtihout a moment delayed.
1188
01:20:57,151 --> 01:20:57,901
Lights.
1189
01:21:04,061 --> 01:21:05,096
Thank you.
1190
01:21:06,044 --> 01:21:06,937
General.
1191
01:21:09,841 --> 01:21:10,853
That all...
1192
01:21:11,625 --> 01:21:13,634
preparations be made.
1193
01:21:15,124 --> 01:21:18,820
Let the record state I have received
word from the Italian Embassy in London.
1194
01:21:18,920 --> 01:21:20,704
Italy is prepared
to mediate a resolution
1195
01:21:20,804 --> 01:21:23,804
between Britain, it's allies,
and Germany.
1196
01:21:30,323 --> 01:21:31,783
Perhaps... then...
1197
01:21:34,206 --> 01:21:38,484
The time for such an offer from us is...
1198
01:21:38,584 --> 01:21:40,205
is when...
1199
01:21:45,659 --> 01:21:47,109
is when...
1200
01:21:49,101 --> 01:21:51,294
Is when Germany has made
1201
01:21:51,394 --> 01:21:54,529
an unsuccessful attempt
1202
01:21:54,649 --> 01:21:56,036
to invade this country.
1203
01:21:56,136 --> 01:21:58,462
Unsuccessful?/
Then you leave me no other option
1204
01:21:58,562 --> 01:22:01,436
to offer.../ Winston! Winston!
1205
01:22:01,860 --> 01:22:05,912
You are refusing
to grasp the realities of
1206
01:22:06,863 --> 01:22:09,563
how precarious our position is!
1207
01:22:10,047 --> 01:22:13,748
Our entire army
is about to be wiped out.
1208
01:22:14,209 --> 01:22:15,216
Terms!
1209
01:22:15,336 --> 01:22:17,057
Must! Be struck!
1210
01:22:22,565 --> 01:22:23,462
Anthony?
1211
01:22:42,047 --> 01:22:44,161
Then it seems...
1212
01:22:46,476 --> 01:22:48,121
We have no choice,
1213
01:22:49,454 --> 01:22:51,521
but to at least consider the
1214
01:22:52,806 --> 01:22:53,756
path
1215
01:22:54,613 --> 01:22:56,177
of negotiation.
1216
01:22:57,711 --> 01:23:00,922
If Hitler's peace terms are...
1217
01:23:03,062 --> 01:23:06,785
Overlordship of Central Europe
1218
01:23:08,360 --> 01:23:11,602
and return of certain
German colonies...
1219
01:23:12,689 --> 01:23:14,004
A-a-and...
1220
01:23:15,031 --> 01:23:16,720
If he will leave us
1221
01:23:18,160 --> 01:23:19,910
our independence,
1222
01:23:22,817 --> 01:23:25,652
then I'll be greatful
1223
01:23:26,881 --> 01:23:29,081
to get out of our present
1224
01:23:30,976 --> 01:23:32,076
difficulties.
1225
01:23:34,038 --> 01:23:35,938
It's quite unlikely
1226
01:23:36,702 --> 01:23:39,533
that he will make such an offer,
1227
01:23:39,633 --> 01:23:44,572
but if I were told what
the German terms were,
1228
01:23:49,516 --> 01:23:51,502
then I would be prepared
1229
01:23:51,847 --> 01:23:53,847
to consider them.
1230
01:23:55,609 --> 01:23:57,286
Thank you, Prime Minister.
1231
01:23:58,849 --> 01:24:01,333
We shall prepare a draft
memorandum at once.
1232
01:24:13,496 --> 01:24:17,524
I have come to wonder,
1233
01:24:18,045 --> 01:24:20,396
in recent days,
1234
01:24:25,383 --> 01:24:27,769
whether it was
1235
01:24:30,697 --> 01:24:32,197
part of my duty...
1236
01:24:37,349 --> 01:24:40,521
Part of my...
Part of my duty, yeah.
1237
01:24:44,604 --> 01:24:45,804
To consider...
1238
01:24:47,776 --> 01:24:48,976
To consider...
1239
01:24:56,083 --> 01:24:57,583
To consider...
1240
01:25:00,303 --> 01:25:02,741
Whether it was...
1241
01:25:03,685 --> 01:25:06,235
Will that be all for tonight, sir?
1242
01:25:09,789 --> 01:25:12,348
Whether it was part of my duty.
1243
01:25:14,063 --> 01:25:16,709
Entering into...
1244
01:25:18,751 --> 01:25:20,985
Into negotiations with...
1245
01:25:21,498 --> 01:25:26,123
HITLER DEFIANT
RUTHLESS IN ATTACK
1246
01:25:26,353 --> 01:25:27,203
that...
1247
01:25:29,746 --> 01:25:31,046
that corporal...
1248
01:25:36,311 --> 01:25:36,961
No.
1249
01:25:37,413 --> 01:25:39,133
That tyrant...
1250
01:25:43,061 --> 01:25:46,867
Monster of wickedness...
1251
01:25:48,586 --> 01:25:50,226
Butcher... that...
1252
01:25:51,162 --> 01:25:53,402
That monstrous...
1253
01:25:54,113 --> 01:25:55,428
Savage.
1254
01:25:58,700 --> 01:26:07,083
Bloodthirsty guttersnipe!
Housepainter...
1255
01:26:11,373 --> 01:26:12,773
HOUSEPAINTER!
1256
01:26:20,822 --> 01:26:22,372
Where were we?
1257
01:26:26,336 --> 01:26:27,186
Well?!
1258
01:26:30,281 --> 01:26:32,031
I didn’t understand you, sir.
1259
01:26:33,878 --> 01:26:34,978
You were...
1260
01:26:35,787 --> 01:26:36,587
Were?
1261
01:26:37,700 --> 01:26:39,100
You were mumbling.
1262
01:26:39,666 --> 01:26:40,766
Mumbling.
1263
01:26:46,442 --> 01:26:48,719
The... the... the right words...
1264
01:26:50,570 --> 01:26:52,170
Wouldn't come.
1265
01:26:52,728 --> 01:26:54,359
They will come, sir.
1266
01:26:54,749 --> 01:26:57,749
No one compared
what's together like you.
1267
01:27:20,412 --> 01:27:21,812
Your beau?
1268
01:27:23,027 --> 01:27:24,177
My brother.
1269
01:27:27,116 --> 01:27:28,166
Where is he now?
1270
01:27:29,408 --> 01:27:31,408
He was falling back on Dunkirk.
1271
01:27:33,023 --> 01:27:34,772
But he never made it.
1272
01:27:59,304 --> 01:28:00,254
What?
1273
01:28:05,839 --> 01:28:07,439
I'm just looking at you.
1274
01:28:34,719 --> 01:28:37,319
Shall I read back what we have?
1275
01:28:38,822 --> 01:28:40,372
Yes. Yes please.
1276
01:28:47,293 --> 01:28:50,343
I have come to wonder in recent days
1277
01:28:51,437 --> 01:28:55,512
whether it was my duty to consider
entering into negotiations
1278
01:28:57,123 --> 01:28:57,823
with...
1279
01:29:01,626 --> 01:29:02,426
With...
1280
01:29:51,532 --> 01:29:54,251
I just couldn't standing... imagining
1281
01:29:55,737 --> 01:29:57,737
never being here anymore.
1282
01:29:59,022 --> 01:30:03,091
Whether is because I am no longer alive,
or the palace itself is gone.
1283
01:30:04,203 --> 01:30:05,053
Canada.
1284
01:30:06,417 --> 01:30:08,067
You must decide, sir.
1285
01:30:08,517 --> 01:30:10,339
You could rule in exile./ Truly...
1286
01:30:10,439 --> 01:30:12,339
...is that to be my fate?
1287
01:30:17,795 --> 01:30:20,267
You know something
I’m aware in this moment?
1288
01:30:20,367 --> 01:30:22,211
Still in hate-grade.
1289
01:30:25,009 --> 01:30:26,509
Bloody angry.
1290
01:30:30,438 --> 01:30:31,288
Darling?
1291
01:30:34,795 --> 01:30:35,995
Winston, Darling?
1292
01:30:39,216 --> 01:30:41,366
There's someone to see you.
1293
01:30:41,652 --> 01:30:42,852
You have a visitor.
1294
01:30:54,693 --> 01:30:58,143
My darling, you’ve the full weight
of the world on your shoulders.
1295
01:30:59,070 --> 01:31:01,170
I.../ No, I know, I know.
1296
01:31:01,392 --> 01:31:03,742
But these inner battles
1297
01:31:04,927 --> 01:31:05,977
have actually
1298
01:31:06,539 --> 01:31:07,689
trained you
1299
01:31:08,074 --> 01:31:09,924
for this very moment.
1300
01:31:10,355 --> 01:31:13,184
You are strong because
you are imperfect.
1301
01:31:13,284 --> 01:31:16,890
You are wise because you have doubts.
1302
01:31:19,590 --> 01:31:22,090
Now, should I let him in?
1303
01:31:23,908 --> 01:31:24,608
Who?
1304
01:31:25,821 --> 01:31:26,750
The king.
1305
01:31:27,940 --> 01:31:28,890
Which King?
1306
01:31:29,921 --> 01:31:31,507
Our King?
1307
01:31:31,964 --> 01:31:34,800
Well if it isn’t him, it’s
a most impersonation.
1308
01:31:44,570 --> 01:31:45,920
Mr. Churchill.
1309
01:31:46,670 --> 01:31:49,220
I hope you can forgive
the late our hours.
1310
01:31:49,854 --> 01:31:53,304
Your wife thought tonight
would be a good time.
1311
01:31:54,883 --> 01:31:56,133
Shall we sit?
1312
01:31:56,444 --> 01:31:57,895
Oh... oh, yes...
1313
01:31:58,442 --> 01:31:59,242
Please.
1314
01:32:04,273 --> 01:32:06,873
Something to drink? Perhaps?
1315
01:32:14,202 --> 01:32:15,245
I...
1316
01:32:16,307 --> 01:32:17,507
received...
1317
01:32:18,361 --> 01:32:19,461
a visit...
1318
01:32:20,793 --> 01:32:23,146
From?/ Viscount Halifax.
1319
01:32:23,579 --> 01:32:26,529
It appears the prospect of a peace deal
1320
01:32:27,864 --> 01:32:29,464
has increased
1321
01:32:30,196 --> 01:32:31,196
dramatically.
1322
01:32:32,962 --> 01:32:35,814
The war cabinet is drafting a letter
1323
01:32:35,914 --> 01:32:37,014
to Mussolini,
1324
01:32:38,082 --> 01:32:40,810
asking him to broker talks
1325
01:32:41,560 --> 01:32:42,860
with Herr Hitler.
1326
01:32:46,456 --> 01:32:47,806
Then Halifax
1327
01:32:48,235 --> 01:32:49,435
was correct?
1328
01:32:51,627 --> 01:32:53,900
I should like to know your mind.
1329
01:32:54,334 --> 01:32:56,834
It would be helpful to know yours first.
1330
01:32:57,515 --> 01:33:00,465
Mine? I should like to know it myself.
1331
01:33:02,544 --> 01:33:03,694
Nations
1332
01:33:05,010 --> 01:33:08,310
which go down fighting rise again,
and those
1333
01:33:09,305 --> 01:33:12,005
which surrender tamely are finished.
1334
01:33:12,228 --> 01:33:13,228
Belgium?
1335
01:33:13,909 --> 01:33:14,677
Collapsed.
1336
01:33:14,777 --> 01:33:16,377
Norway?/ Holland.
1337
01:33:17,458 --> 01:33:18,850
France any hour.
1338
01:33:18,950 --> 01:33:21,571
And the mood of Parliament?/
Fear. Panic.
1339
01:33:21,671 --> 01:33:22,471
And you?
1340
01:33:24,985 --> 01:33:26,335
Are you not afraid?
1341
01:33:28,214 --> 01:33:31,397
I am most terribly.
1342
01:33:32,959 --> 01:33:37,333
Support in the War Cabinet,
1343
01:33:38,738 --> 01:33:43,381
for a campaign of resistance
has collapsed.
1344
01:33:51,833 --> 01:33:55,133
Later today, I will address the House
1345
01:33:55,983 --> 01:33:57,233
accordingly.
1346
01:34:08,217 --> 01:34:09,867
You have my support.
1347
01:34:17,307 --> 01:34:18,557
Your Majesty?
1348
01:34:19,923 --> 01:34:21,573
You have my support.
1349
01:34:24,306 --> 01:34:25,706
I confess I
1350
01:34:27,066 --> 01:34:29,866
had some reservations
about you at first, but
1351
01:34:31,247 --> 01:34:35,611
while some in this country
dreaded your appointment, none...
1352
01:34:35,731 --> 01:34:38,531
None dreaded it like Adolph Hitler.
1353
01:34:38,634 --> 01:34:41,934
Whomever can strike fear
into that brute heart
1354
01:34:43,089 --> 01:34:45,383
is worthy of all our trust.
1355
01:34:46,301 --> 01:34:50,151
We shall work together. You shall
have my support. At any hour.
1356
01:34:51,117 --> 01:34:52,617
Beat the buggers.
1357
01:34:54,106 --> 01:34:55,656
Now I'm going to Parliament,
1358
01:34:56,664 --> 01:34:59,464
but without support in my own party.
1359
01:35:00,099 --> 01:35:02,010
I must sue for peace.
1360
01:35:06,411 --> 01:35:10,361
You once gave me some advice.
Perhaps I can give you some.
1361
01:35:11,692 --> 01:35:12,992
Go to the people.
1362
01:35:13,237 --> 01:35:15,270
Let them instruct you.
1363
01:35:15,572 --> 01:35:18,372
Quite silently, they usually do.
1364
01:35:19,121 --> 01:35:23,863
But tell them the truth. Unvarnished.
1365
01:35:24,654 --> 01:35:26,648
If invasion is imminent,
1366
01:35:26,748 --> 01:35:29,432
then our troops in France are lost,
1367
01:35:29,532 --> 01:35:31,082
they must be prepare.
1368
01:35:34,702 --> 01:35:36,252
On certain matters,
1369
01:35:38,386 --> 01:35:42,288
I have value few people with whom I can
1370
01:35:43,382 --> 01:35:44,382
talk,
1371
01:35:44,667 --> 01:35:45,768
frankly.
1372
01:35:45,868 --> 01:35:48,586
Perhaps now we have each other?
1373
01:35:49,576 --> 01:35:51,376
And I no longer scare you?
1374
01:35:52,524 --> 01:35:53,374
A little.
1375
01:35:54,330 --> 01:35:55,880
I can cope.
1376
01:36:05,641 --> 01:36:06,791
We are ready.
1377
01:36:07,022 --> 01:36:08,122
More or less.
1378
01:36:08,283 --> 01:36:10,355
More or less what, Bertie?
1379
01:36:10,659 --> 01:36:11,959
Give me a number.
1380
01:36:12,260 --> 01:36:15,000
In total 860 vessels.
1381
01:36:15,504 --> 01:36:17,895
The biggest civilian fleet
ever assembled.
1382
01:36:17,995 --> 01:36:20,314
Operation Dynamo waits on your command.
1383
01:36:20,553 --> 01:36:21,703
Admiral...
1384
01:36:22,983 --> 01:36:25,243
Initiate Dynamo.
1385
01:36:26,085 --> 01:36:28,130
And may God watch over them all.
1386
01:37:53,393 --> 01:37:55,543
We’ve lost the Prime Minister!
1387
01:38:17,465 --> 01:38:20,465
Do you know how to
use this thing?/ Yes, sir.
1388
01:38:22,049 --> 01:38:24,249
How do I get to Westminster?
1389
01:38:24,397 --> 01:38:25,497
Westminster?
1390
01:38:27,180 --> 01:38:29,558
The District Line. East.
One stop.
1391
01:38:29,678 --> 01:38:32,636
District Line. East. One stop.
1392
01:38:33,406 --> 01:38:35,756
That doesn’t sound so hard./ No, sir.
1393
01:38:36,768 --> 01:38:37,618
Thank you.
1394
01:38:38,078 --> 01:38:38,989
Thank you, sir.
1395
01:38:39,089 --> 01:38:43,436
The Memorandum is titled
“Suggested Approaches to Italy”
1396
01:38:43,536 --> 01:38:44,936
for is as follows.
1397
01:38:45,238 --> 01:38:48,461
“If Signor Mussolini
will co-operate with us
1398
01:38:48,902 --> 01:38:52,549
in securing a settlement
of all European questions, which
1399
01:38:52,802 --> 01:38:56,543
safeguard the independence
and security of the allies,
1400
01:38:56,663 --> 01:38:58,551
and could be the basis
1401
01:38:58,651 --> 01:39:01,520
of a just and durable peace for Europe.”
1402
01:39:01,620 --> 01:39:04,800
“We will undertake at once to discuss
1403
01:39:05,257 --> 01:39:07,418
with the desire to find solutions,
1404
01:39:07,518 --> 01:39:10,065
the matters in which Signor Mussolini
1405
01:39:10,165 --> 01:39:12,143
is primarily interested.”
1406
01:39:12,263 --> 01:39:13,695
“We understand
1407
01:39:13,795 --> 01:39:17,926
that he desires the solution
of certain Mediterranean questions
1408
01:39:18,026 --> 01:39:22,220
and if he will state in secrecy
what these are,
1409
01:39:22,320 --> 01:39:25,689
France and Great Britain
will at once do their best
1410
01:39:25,789 --> 01:39:27,810
to meet those wishes.”
1411
01:39:33,186 --> 01:39:34,186
So...
1412
01:39:34,970 --> 01:39:37,093
This is the Underground!
1413
01:39:49,732 --> 01:39:50,582
Thank you.
1414
01:40:29,450 --> 01:40:31,900
Does anyone have a match?
1415
01:40:37,131 --> 01:40:37,981
Thank you.
1416
01:40:40,025 --> 01:40:40,875
Thank you.
1417
01:40:44,335 --> 01:40:45,834
What are you all staring at?
1418
01:40:46,329 --> 01:40:50,535
Have you never seen a Prime Minister
ride on the Underground before?
1419
01:40:53,811 --> 01:40:55,011
What is your name?
1420
01:40:55,111 --> 01:40:56,761
Oliver Wilson, sir.
1421
01:40:58,331 --> 01:41:00,323
And what do you do Mr. Wilson?
1422
01:41:00,423 --> 01:41:02,071
Brick-layer, sir./ Ah!
1423
01:41:02,171 --> 01:41:06,659
Brick-layer! We shall have
great need of brick-layers soon.
1424
01:41:06,759 --> 01:41:08,759
Business will be looking up!
1425
01:41:13,455 --> 01:41:14,605
Progress!
1426
01:41:20,440 --> 01:41:21,627
How old?
1427
01:41:21,727 --> 01:41:23,027
Five months, sir.
1428
01:41:23,278 --> 01:41:24,378
He looks like you.
1429
01:41:25,563 --> 01:41:28,107
Madam, all babies look like me.
1430
01:41:30,917 --> 01:41:32,333
What is your name?
1431
01:41:32,843 --> 01:41:35,711
Mrs. Jessie Sutton./ Ah, Mrs. Sutton!
1432
01:41:35,811 --> 01:41:36,911
What a pleasure.
1433
01:41:38,333 --> 01:41:39,233
Abigail.
1434
01:41:39,932 --> 01:41:41,182
Abigail Walker.
1435
01:41:41,386 --> 01:41:42,578
Marcus Peters.
1436
01:41:42,678 --> 01:41:44,145
"Marcus Peters."
1437
01:41:47,013 --> 01:41:48,763
Agnes Dillon./ "Agnes."
1438
01:41:49,786 --> 01:41:51,726
Maurice Baker./ "Mr. Baker."
1439
01:41:51,846 --> 01:41:54,245
Alice Simpson./ "Alice Simpson."
1440
01:41:54,345 --> 01:41:56,100
Miss Margaret Jerome.
1441
01:41:56,200 --> 01:41:57,938
Ah, Jerome!
1442
01:41:58,830 --> 01:42:03,233
My mother was a Jerome!
I expect we are closely related.
1443
01:42:04,402 --> 01:42:07,402
Please, please, sit.
Sit everyone.
1444
01:42:11,326 --> 01:42:13,082
Thank you, Mr. Baker.
1445
01:42:13,777 --> 01:42:15,370
So how are you all...
1446
01:42:16,096 --> 01:42:17,890
How are you all bearing up?
1447
01:42:19,202 --> 01:42:20,963
Good... good spirits?
1448
01:42:21,564 --> 01:42:22,314
Yes.
1449
01:42:22,788 --> 01:42:23,888
Just as well.
1450
01:42:24,562 --> 01:42:25,912
We still need them.
1451
01:42:28,289 --> 01:42:30,539
Let me ask you all something,
1452
01:42:30,702 --> 01:42:34,223
this thing, a weighing on my mind.
1453
01:42:34,343 --> 01:42:36,793
Perhaps you can provide me
with an answer.
1454
01:42:37,689 --> 01:42:38,489
You...
1455
01:42:39,744 --> 01:42:41,587
The British people.
1456
01:42:42,768 --> 01:42:44,375
What is your mood?
1457
01:42:45,253 --> 01:42:46,153
Is it...
1458
01:42:47,103 --> 01:42:48,401
Is it confident?
1459
01:42:48,501 --> 01:42:50,729
Yes./ Confident. How confident?
1460
01:42:50,829 --> 01:42:51,677
Very.
1461
01:42:51,777 --> 01:42:53,298
Some people say it’s a lost cause.
1462
01:42:53,398 --> 01:42:56,330
Lost cause is the only ones
worth fighting for.
1463
01:42:56,468 --> 01:42:57,481
Too late./ Yes...
1464
01:42:57,581 --> 01:43:00,900
Now let me ask you this.
If the worst came to pass,
1465
01:43:01,658 --> 01:43:07,122
and... and the enemy were
to appear on those streets above,
1466
01:43:07,529 --> 01:43:09,245
what would you do?/ Fight!
1467
01:43:09,345 --> 01:43:12,222
Fight the fascists!/ Fight them with
anything we can lay our hands on!
1468
01:43:12,322 --> 01:43:14,661
Broom handles if we must!/
Street by street!
1469
01:43:14,761 --> 01:43:16,761
They'll never take Picadilly!
1470
01:43:17,684 --> 01:43:19,924
Never take Picadilly indeed!
1471
01:43:20,489 --> 01:43:22,732
And what if I put it to you all
1472
01:43:23,256 --> 01:43:24,431
that we might,
1473
01:43:24,752 --> 01:43:28,450
if we ask nicely
1474
01:43:28,965 --> 01:43:32,839
get very favourable
terms from Mr. Hitler,
1475
01:43:32,939 --> 01:43:36,744
if we enter into a peace deal
with him right now?
1476
01:43:37,399 --> 01:43:39,181
What would you say to that?
1477
01:43:39,301 --> 01:43:40,520
Never!/ Never!
1478
01:43:40,640 --> 01:43:41,747
Never!/ Never!
1479
01:43:41,847 --> 01:43:42,997
Never!/ Never!
1480
01:43:51,210 --> 01:43:53,065
So... never.
1481
01:43:54,943 --> 01:43:55,773
Never.
1482
01:43:57,741 --> 01:43:59,360
Will you never give up?
1483
01:43:59,566 --> 01:44:00,902
No, never!
1484
01:44:02,770 --> 01:44:06,674
"Then out spake brave Horatius."
1485
01:44:09,591 --> 01:44:11,819
"The Captain of the gate:
1486
01:44:13,279 --> 01:44:17,043
To every man upon this earth,
Death...
1487
01:44:19,389 --> 01:44:21,128
...cometh soon or late."
1488
01:44:22,148 --> 01:44:26,514
"And how can man die better
1489
01:44:27,085 --> 01:44:29,782
than facing fearful odds?"
1490
01:44:31,788 --> 01:44:34,805
"For the ashes.../
"For the ashes of his fathers,
1491
01:44:34,925 --> 01:44:37,083
and the temples of his gods."
1492
01:44:47,336 --> 01:44:48,686
Are you crying?
1493
01:44:48,993 --> 01:44:49,993
Crying?
1494
01:44:51,077 --> 01:44:52,777
Yes, yes, crying.
1495
01:44:54,032 --> 01:44:55,582
I blub a lot, you know?
1496
01:44:57,323 --> 01:44:59,673
I think you'll have to get used to it.
1497
01:45:02,137 --> 01:45:04,112
What... What stop is this?
1498
01:45:04,781 --> 01:45:06,331
Westminster, sir.
1499
01:45:07,612 --> 01:45:10,306
Westminster?
It's my stop.
1500
01:45:42,587 --> 01:45:43,837
Prime Minister!
1501
01:45:46,756 --> 01:45:47,656
Sir!
1502
01:45:49,601 --> 01:45:51,043
The War Cabinet...
1503
01:45:51,143 --> 01:45:52,993
Sir! They're waiting.
1504
01:45:53,237 --> 01:45:55,910
I'm due to address the Outer Cabinet.
1505
01:45:56,010 --> 01:45:57,510
What?/ Now!
1506
01:45:57,864 --> 01:46:01,114
I haven’t spoken to them since
the formation of the new government.
1507
01:46:05,392 --> 01:46:07,849
Prime Minister./ Good day, gentlemen.
1508
01:46:09,301 --> 01:46:13,210
I'm about to speak to
my Outer Cabinet in my rooms
1509
01:46:13,451 --> 01:46:17,795
and I extend the invitation to any
of you who would care to join them.
1510
01:46:21,075 --> 01:46:21,975
Let's go.
1511
01:46:40,850 --> 01:46:46,772
This afternoon, I will address the House
1512
01:46:48,575 --> 01:46:51,925
on the matter of our nation’s security.
1513
01:46:53,145 --> 01:46:54,945
At this very moment,
1514
01:46:55,072 --> 01:47:00,415
the War Cabinet is drafting papers
that lay out our willingness
1515
01:47:00,515 --> 01:47:06,807
to enter into peace talks
with Herr Hitler, via his...
1516
01:47:07,209 --> 01:47:09,460
His lacky, Mussolini.
1517
01:47:11,693 --> 01:47:14,640
I have thought very carefully
1518
01:47:15,199 --> 01:47:19,159
in these last days,
whether was part of my duty,
1519
01:47:20,100 --> 01:47:23,815
to consider entering into
negotiations with...
1520
01:47:28,250 --> 01:47:29,500
With that man.
1521
01:47:32,935 --> 01:47:34,185
Then I...
1522
01:47:36,656 --> 01:47:38,156
I spoke with them.
1523
01:47:43,492 --> 01:47:44,692
Oliver Wilson.
1524
01:47:46,428 --> 01:47:48,375
Mrs. Jessie Sutton.
1525
01:47:49,431 --> 01:47:52,319
Mrs. Abigail Walker.
1526
01:47:53,397 --> 01:47:57,362
Marcus Peters and Maurice Baker.
1527
01:47:57,688 --> 01:48:01,881
Alice Simpson and Miss Margaret Jerome.
1528
01:48:02,905 --> 01:48:05,766
Brave, good, true citizens
of this kingdom, and they argued
1529
01:48:05,866 --> 01:48:09,024
strongly, that it was idle to think
1530
01:48:09,144 --> 01:48:11,415
if we tried to make peace now,
1531
01:48:12,047 --> 01:48:15,647
we should get better terms
than if we fought it out.
1532
01:48:16,856 --> 01:48:17,839
The Germans,
1533
01:48:18,434 --> 01:48:21,173
Mr. Baker felt,
1534
01:48:21,986 --> 01:48:23,186
would demand
1535
01:48:23,739 --> 01:48:27,261
in the name of disarmament
our naval bases, and much else.
1536
01:48:27,361 --> 01:48:28,759
And I think he's right.
1537
01:48:29,445 --> 01:48:33,277
Jessie Sutton, speaking for many,
1538
01:48:34,175 --> 01:48:36,651
believes we would then become
1539
01:48:37,128 --> 01:48:39,209
a slave state,
1540
01:48:39,532 --> 01:48:43,599
though a British Government
which would be Hitler's puppet.
1541
01:48:43,719 --> 01:48:46,439
A government set up under...
1542
01:48:46,559 --> 01:48:49,597
Under Mosley or some such person./
No, no!
1543
01:48:49,697 --> 01:48:53,421
And I join with them
in asking a further question,
1544
01:48:53,521 --> 01:48:56,062
a question I now put to you:
1545
01:48:57,372 --> 01:49:01,228
Where should we be
at the end of all that?
1546
01:49:06,779 --> 01:49:08,660
Perhaps some might benefit.
1547
01:49:08,760 --> 01:49:12,873
And the powerful might be able
to parlay good terms,
1548
01:49:13,299 --> 01:49:15,399
preserved in their country redoubts,
1549
01:49:15,499 --> 01:49:18,294
out of sight of the Swastika
1550
01:49:18,520 --> 01:49:20,721
flying on the... over
1551
01:49:21,196 --> 01:49:23,318
Buckingham Palace./ Never!
1552
01:49:23,438 --> 01:49:24,538
Over Windsor,
1553
01:49:25,306 --> 01:49:27,290
and they draped on these very buildings.
1554
01:49:27,410 --> 01:49:28,610
Never!/ Never!
1555
01:49:28,730 --> 01:49:30,207
Never!/ Never!
1556
01:49:30,327 --> 01:49:31,977
So I come to you...
1557
01:49:33,213 --> 01:49:36,114
I come to you,
1558
01:49:37,204 --> 01:49:39,126
to learn your minds
1559
01:49:39,226 --> 01:49:40,944
in this grave hour.
1560
01:49:42,331 --> 01:49:46,395
You see, it was pointed out to me
by my new friends,
1561
01:49:46,515 --> 01:49:50,988
that you might even rise up
and tear me down
1562
01:49:51,088 --> 01:49:54,477
were I for one moment
to contemplate parley or surrender.
1563
01:49:59,662 --> 01:50:00,774
Were they wrong?
1564
01:50:00,874 --> 01:50:01,896
No!/ No!
1565
01:50:02,112 --> 01:50:03,799
Were they wrong?/ No!
1566
01:50:03,899 --> 01:50:05,023
Were they wrong?
1567
01:50:05,123 --> 01:50:06,866
No!/ Thank you, thank you...
1568
01:50:06,966 --> 01:50:08,453
Then I'm hear you...
1569
01:50:09,149 --> 01:50:10,867
I am hear you!
1570
01:50:13,302 --> 01:50:16,897
It appears to be your will also,
1571
01:50:18,152 --> 01:50:22,434
that if this long island story of ours
is to end at last,
1572
01:50:22,750 --> 01:50:26,335
then let it end only when each one of us
1573
01:50:26,650 --> 01:50:31,080
lies choking in his own blood
upon the ground!
1574
01:50:31,081 --> 01:50:33,285
Yeah!/ Bravo!
1575
01:50:38,209 --> 01:50:40,430
And when I asked to know their minds,
1576
01:50:40,530 --> 01:50:42,945
there occurred a demonstration
which considering
1577
01:50:43,045 --> 01:50:46,482
the character of the gathering,
quite surprised me.
1578
01:50:47,372 --> 01:50:49,322
There is no doubt,
1579
01:50:49,657 --> 01:50:53,536
that if we falter at all
in the leading of the nation,
1580
01:50:53,785 --> 01:50:56,785
we should all be hurled out of office.
1581
01:50:57,146 --> 01:51:00,471
I am sure now that every Minister
on both sides of the house
1582
01:51:00,733 --> 01:51:03,922
is ready to be killed quite soon,
and have all his
1583
01:51:04,022 --> 01:51:07,472
family and possessions destroyed,
rather than give in.
1584
01:51:08,571 --> 01:51:12,452
In this they represent
almost all the people.
1585
01:51:13,048 --> 01:51:17,756
It falls to me in these
coming days and months,
1586
01:51:18,488 --> 01:51:21,419
to express their sentiments.
1587
01:51:24,300 --> 01:51:28,601
There shall be no negotiated peace.
1588
01:51:33,350 --> 01:51:38,289
And you must each do now as you see fit.
1589
01:51:42,753 --> 01:51:44,951
Now if you excuse me, gentlemen.
1590
01:51:46,533 --> 01:51:49,558
I believe I am tend
to address the Parliament.
1591
01:51:50,408 --> 01:51:54,178
And I’m yet to write
a word of my speech.
1592
01:51:54,523 --> 01:51:56,173
There’s the buggers.
1593
01:51:59,217 --> 01:52:00,967
Tiny!/ Sir.
1594
01:52:07,169 --> 01:52:09,033
Miss Layton?/ Sir?
1595
01:52:09,284 --> 01:52:10,684
I’m in need of you.
1596
01:52:13,181 --> 01:52:16,831
We must both now resign.
Force a vote of no confidence.
1597
01:52:17,297 --> 01:52:19,933
Let's go to the Commons first.
1598
01:52:20,631 --> 01:52:22,181
Join our colleagues.
1599
01:52:23,153 --> 01:52:26,553
And speak after the
Prime Minister’s address.
1600
01:52:46,034 --> 01:52:48,291
Here's a woman, who is always tired
1601
01:52:49,282 --> 01:52:51,032
for she lived a life
1602
01:52:51,345 --> 01:52:53,411
where too much was required.
1603
01:53:21,341 --> 01:53:23,053
The Prime Minister!
1604
01:53:32,722 --> 01:53:36,596
Turning once again to
the question of invasion,
1605
01:53:37,292 --> 01:53:40,963
I would observe that there
has never been a period
1606
01:53:41,207 --> 01:53:44,401
in all these long centuries
of which we boast,
1607
01:53:44,843 --> 01:53:50,239
when an absolute guarantee
against invasion
1608
01:53:51,299 --> 01:53:53,699
could have been given to our people.
1609
01:54:00,611 --> 01:54:02,315
I have, myself...
1610
01:54:03,291 --> 01:54:07,741
Full confidence,
that if all do their duty,
1611
01:54:07,861 --> 01:54:10,318
if nothing is neglected,
1612
01:54:10,807 --> 01:54:13,775
and if the best arrangements
are made as they are
1613
01:54:13,875 --> 01:54:15,425
being made,
1614
01:54:15,556 --> 01:54:18,652
we shall prove ourselves once more able
1615
01:54:18,752 --> 01:54:21,102
to defend our island home,
1616
01:54:22,028 --> 01:54:24,933
to ride out the storm of war,
1617
01:54:26,426 --> 01:54:29,300
and to outlive the menace of tyranny.
1618
01:54:29,689 --> 01:54:37,922
If necessary for years,
if necessary alone.
1619
01:54:40,233 --> 01:54:44,271
At any rate, that is what
we are going to try to do.
1620
01:54:45,018 --> 01:54:50,745
That is the resolve of His Majesty's
government, every men of them.
1621
01:54:51,924 --> 01:54:56,757
That is the will of
Parliament and the nation.
1622
01:55:00,100 --> 01:55:03,708
The British Empire, and
the French Republic,
1623
01:55:03,930 --> 01:55:07,754
linked together in their cause
wand in their need,
1624
01:55:08,112 --> 01:55:10,289
will defend to the death
1625
01:55:10,848 --> 01:55:12,600
their native soil,
1626
01:55:14,169 --> 01:55:18,057
aiding each other like good comrades
1627
01:55:18,301 --> 01:55:20,935
to the utmost of their strength.
1628
01:55:21,035 --> 01:55:21,985
Yes!/ Yeah! Yeah!
1629
01:55:24,034 --> 01:55:30,903
Even though large tracts of Europe
and many old and famous States have...
1630
01:55:31,104 --> 01:55:33,854
have fallen or may fall
1631
01:55:34,339 --> 01:55:35,985
into the... the...
1632
01:55:36,085 --> 01:55:38,564
grip of the Gestapo
1633
01:55:39,219 --> 01:55:42,992
and all the odious apparatus
of Nazi rule,
1634
01:55:44,275 --> 01:55:46,784
we shall not flag or fail.
1635
01:55:48,054 --> 01:55:51,195
We shall go on to the end.
1636
01:55:55,953 --> 01:55:58,600
We shall fight in France,
1637
01:56:00,002 --> 01:56:03,676
we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
1638
01:56:04,901 --> 01:56:10,122
we shall fight with growing confidence
and growing strength in the air,
1639
01:56:11,533 --> 01:56:14,947
we shall defend our island,
1640
01:56:15,047 --> 01:56:17,397
whatever the cost may be.
1641
01:56:17,497 --> 01:56:19,671
Yeah! Yeah!
1642
01:56:20,146 --> 01:56:22,785
We shall fight on the beaches,
1643
01:56:23,511 --> 01:56:26,817
we shall fight on the landing grounds,
1644
01:56:27,483 --> 01:56:30,218
we shall fight in the fields
1645
01:56:30,872 --> 01:56:32,172
and in the streets,
1646
01:56:33,310 --> 01:56:35,829
we shall fight in the hills.
1647
01:56:36,414 --> 01:56:38,446
We shall never surrender,
1648
01:56:48,510 --> 01:56:49,360
And if...
1649
01:56:53,964 --> 01:56:54,894
And if...
1650
01:56:57,173 --> 01:56:59,938
which I do not for a moment believe,
1651
01:57:00,389 --> 01:57:04,765
this island or a large part
of it were...
1652
01:57:05,066 --> 01:57:07,791
were subjugated and starving,
1653
01:57:09,022 --> 01:57:13,209
then our Empire beyond the seas,
1654
01:57:13,649 --> 01:57:16,942
armed and guarded by the British Fleet,
1655
01:57:18,466 --> 01:57:21,767
would carry on the struggle!/ Yes!
1656
01:57:22,121 --> 01:57:24,536
Until in God's good time,
1657
01:57:25,304 --> 01:57:29,820
the New World, with all
its power and might,
1658
01:57:30,597 --> 01:57:35,601
steps forth to the rescue
and the liberation of the old!
1659
01:57:35,721 --> 01:57:37,776
Yes! Yes!
1660
01:57:42,159 --> 01:57:44,962
Bravo, bravo, bravo!
1661
01:58:02,265 --> 01:58:03,458
Hurray!
1662
01:58:04,315 --> 01:58:06,071
Very well!
1663
01:58:07,551 --> 01:58:08,992
Bravo!
1664
01:58:13,925 --> 01:58:14,725
Bravo!
1665
01:58:15,406 --> 01:58:21,056
Victory! Victory! Victory!
1666
01:58:26,476 --> 01:58:27,734
Changed your mind?
1667
01:58:28,638 --> 01:58:32,695
Those who never change their mind
never change anything.
1668
01:58:35,879 --> 01:58:37,179
What just happened?
1669
01:58:38,236 --> 01:58:44,209
He mobilized the English language
and sent it into battle.
1670
01:58:55,210 --> 01:59:02,987
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1671
01:59:08,145 --> 01:59:12,005
ALMOST ALL OF THE
300,000 TROOPS AT DUNKIRK
1672
01:59:12,276 --> 01:59:16,526
WERE CARRIED HOME
BY WINSTON'S CIVILIAN FLEET
1673
01:59:17,451 --> 01:59:22,363
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN DIED SIX MONTHS LATER
1674
01:59:23,531 --> 01:59:26,581
VISCOUNT HALIFAX WAS SOON
REMOVED BY WINSTON
1675
01:59:26,681 --> 01:59:29,447
FROM THE WAR CABINET
AND SENT TO WASHINGTON
1676
01:59:30,431 --> 01:59:31,914
ON MAY 8, FIVE YEARS LATER,
1677
01:59:32,014 --> 01:59:35,133
BRITAIN AND ITS ALLIES
WOULD DECLARE VICTORY
1678
01:59:35,233 --> 01:59:40,084
LATER THAT YEAR, WINSTON WAS VOTED OUT
OF OFFICE IN THE GENERAL ELECTION
1679
01:59:41,202 --> 01:59:44,114
"SUCCESS IS NOT FINAL,
FAILURE IS NOT FATAL.
1680
01:59:44,214 --> 01:59:46,646
IT IS THE COURAGE
TO CONTINUE THAT COUNTS."
1681
01:59:46,746 --> 01:59:47,986
WINSTON CHURCHILL