![]() ![]() Indeed in the final briefing for senior officers on 15 May, General John Kennedy noted in his diary how Churchill spoke “in a robust and even humourous style, and concluded with a moving expression of his hopes and good wishes. The major error of fact, of course, is that although Churchill did indeed oppose an over-hasty return of Allied forces to north-west France in 19, by the time of D-Day in 1944 he was completely committed to the operation. Never in the course of movie-making have so many specious errors been made in so long a film by so few writers. The only problem with the movie-written by the historian Alex von Tunzelmann-is that it gets absolutely everything wrong. ![]() Well-acted by Brian Cox and Miranda Richardson, and with some very good photography and music, it concentrates on Churchill’s opposition to the operation on the grounds of the numbers of deaths it would involve, and attempts an insight into Churchill’s psychology at that crucial stage of the Second World War. The film “Churchill” purports to tell the story of Winston Churchill’s life in the week running up to Operation Overlord, the attack on the Normandy beaches which began on D-Day, 6 June 1944. Minor problem: it gets everything wrong…. ![]()
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