Opens: June 8
Genre:  Biographical drama
Duration: 110 minutes

The life of Winston Churchill was crammed with enough adventure and intrigue to fill several movies. Given the early years were covered by Richard Attenborough in 1972’s Young Winston, it makes sense for later filmmakers to focus on the WW2 years. This new film starring Brian Cox narrows its focus even further to the few weeks leading up to the allied D-Day invasion of Nazi-Occupied France, with no footage of the actual assault.

The British leader was largely sidelined by the Americans at this stage of the war and is depicted here chafing in frustration, though his earlier preference for invasion via Greece and Italy is unmentioned.

Scripted by historian and author Alex von Tunzelmann and directed by Australian Jonathan Teplitzky (The Railway Man), this film aims to paint a realistic portrait of the wartime leader. It goes beyond the iconic British bulldog cliché to give us a multifaceted individual; one skeptical and nervous of the coming invasion, frustrated at being pushed aside by the Americans in the planning, fearful of the potential for disaster (influenced by guilt over his pivotal former role as the WWI leader responsible for the Gallipoli campaign), and...