Very interesting, if somewhat frustratingly limited documentary biography of Winston Churchill. It's not really the film's fault. It's well made and intelligent. It's just that Churchill lived such a full and fascinating life, that trying to jam it all into an under 2 hour film means that much has to be ignored or sped through.
So in most areas we get the reader's digest version. Only the war years get a little more detail. But we get almost nothing about Churchill the human being, the husband, the father.
Huge changes in his political career are handled with a few sentences and a couple of images.
Yet I was never bored, and still ended up knowing much more about both Churchill and Britain in the war years than when I started.
So in most areas we get the reader's digest version. Only the war years get a little more detail. But we get almost nothing about Churchill the human being, the husband, the father.
Huge changes in his political career are handled with a few sentences and a couple of images.
Yet I was never bored, and still ended up knowing much more about both Churchill and Britain in the war years than when I started.
