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  • Actors: Robert Hardy, Sian Phillips, Nigel Havers
  • Format: Box set, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Number of discs: 4
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: delta home entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 21 Feb 2005
  • Run Time: 408 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0006ZLD9G
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 10,573 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Television drama covering Winston Churchill's political career in the period from 1929 to 1939.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating but Flawed, 29 Jan 2008
By F. S. L'hoir (Irvine, CA) - See all my reviews
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This series held my interest from beginning to end. How could it miss with such a monumental protagonist and such absorbing subject matter. I especially liked Nigel Havers as Randolph, and the actors who played Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay McDonald, and Clement Atlee. I am afraid that I am less enthusiastic about Sian Phillips, who always plays Sian Phillips, and who, in my estimation, managed to make Clemmie rather unpleasant (almost as unpleasant as Phillips, appropriately, made Livia Augusta in "I Claudius."). As for Robert Hardy, he does an on-target impression of Sir Winston Churchill, but I think that he was misdirected.

Did Sir Winston really orate twenty-four-seven? Surely he spoke in a more modulated voice with the family around the dining room table [when he wasn't shouting at Randolph] or in the privacy of his bedroom! In this production, he addresses his "dear Clemmie" in his "fight-them-on-the-beaches" persona, to such an extent that Hardy's portrayal sometimes slips into parody. But again, I believe that the fault must be laid at the door of the director.

This quibble aside, the production is excellent. The recreation of the scenes in the House of Commons is fascinating. When Churchill is at the dispatch boxes letting the coalition government have it, Hardy is magnificent. This series is highly recommended for anyone interested in British political history.
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4.0 out of 5 stars "The price of greatness is responsibility." , 9 Feb 2009
By Brendan O. Clarke "brendoclarke" (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
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The movie covers the ten lonely, frustrating years of Churchill's political comeback. Sacked for his Gallipoli blunder, failed as Chancellor of the Exchequer, he was long considered an embarrassing failure. Pigheaded, politically incorrect at the time, histrionic, he still had the guts to cry wolf against the rising Nazi menace and call for rearmament, only to be ignored by hesitant MPs and tremulous PMs. On top of it he suffered bouts of jealousy and depression, family and financial problems. Yet, all through his ordeals he still managed to paint, write, lecture, garden, ride, hunt, drink bucket loads of booze, and deliver the finest speeches of the Century!

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