Uploaded June 2023 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago
Not a full-screen frame and sound is a bit ragged, but quite watchable. Missing the opening and the closing credits.
This biography of Winston Churchill is based on his own memoirs and narrated by Orson Welles. His early family life at Blenheim Palace, Harrow school and Sandhurst Military College is discussed, together with his military service in India and Cuba, and the occasions where he retreated from public life to devote time to his painting and writing. However, the primary focus of the programme is on the contribution he made as Prime Minister of Britain during World War Two, rallying the people with his oratory and using his energies and determination to repel Hitler’s advances across Europe towards Britain. The programme presents a summary of the more important European military campaigns, with maps, and outlines the role played by Britain and its allies under Churchill’s leadership. It uses archival footage from various campaigns and cities across Europe and North Africa, interspersed with extracts of Churchill delivering key addresses. (ACMI (edited))
Directed by Peter Baylis
Written by Winston Churchill and
Victor Wolfson
Produced by Jack Levin
Narrated by Orson Welles
Cinematography: Hone Glendinning
Cast
George Baker as Lord Randolph (voice)
Faith Brook as Lady Randolph (voice)
David Healy as Newsreel Commentator
Orson Welles as Narrator (voice)
George Westbury as Churchill as a boy (voice)
Patrick Wymark as Churchill (voice)
Not a full-screen frame and sound is a bit ragged, but quite watchable. Missing the opening and the closing credits.
This biography of Winston Churchill is based on his own memoirs and narrated by Orson Welles. His early family life at Blenheim Palace, Harrow school and Sandhurst Military College is discussed, together with his military service in India and Cuba, and the occasions where he retreated from public life to devote time to his painting and writing. However, the primary focus of the programme is on the contribution he made as Prime Minister of Britain during World War Two, rallying the people with his oratory and using his energies and determination to repel Hitler’s advances across Europe towards Britain. The programme presents a summary of the more important European military campaigns, with maps, and outlines the role played by Britain and its allies under Churchill’s leadership. It uses archival footage from various campaigns and cities across Europe and North Africa, interspersed with extracts of Churchill delivering key addresses. (ACMI (edited))
Directed by Peter Baylis
Written by Winston Churchill and
Victor Wolfson
Produced by Jack Levin
Narrated by Orson Welles
Cinematography: Hone Glendinning
Cast
George Baker as Lord Randolph (voice)
Faith Brook as Lady Randolph (voice)
David Healy as Newsreel Commentator
Orson Welles as Narrator (voice)
George Westbury as Churchill as a boy (voice)
Patrick Wymark as Churchill (voice)
