A thrilling and inspiring true story begins on the eve of World War II as, within days of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill must face one of his most turbulent and defining trials: exploring a negotiated peace treaty with Nazi Germany, or standing firm to fight for the ideals, liberty and freedom of a nation. As the unstoppable Nazi forces roll across Western Europe and the threat of invasion is imminent, and with an unprepared public, a skeptical King, and his own party plotting against him, Churchill must withstand his darkest hour, rally a nation, and attempt to change the course of world history.
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Film Cast:

• Winston Churchill: Gary Oldman
• Clementine Churchill: Kristin Scott Thomas
• Elizabeth Layton: Lily James
• Edward Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax: Stephen Dillane
• Neville Chamberlain: Ronald Pickup
• George VI: Ben Mendelsohn
• John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon: Nicholas Jones
• Anthony Eden: Samuel West
• Clement Atlee: David Schofield
• Major-General Hastings Ismay: Richard Lumsden
• General Sir Edmund Ironside: Malcolm Storry
• Arthur Greenwood: Hilton McRae
• Sir Samuel Hoare: Benjamin Whitrow
• John Evans: Joe Armstrong
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding: Adrian Rawlins
• Vice-Admiral Bertram Ramsay: David Bamber
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (voice): David Strathairn
• James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope: Jeremy Child
• Sir Kingsley Wood: Brian Pettifer
• Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry: Michael Gould
• Sir Alexander Cadogan: John Atterbury
• Miles Aldridge: Charley Palmer Rothwell
• Abigail Walker: Hannah Steele
• Sawyers: Philip Martin Brown
• Alice Simpson: Nia Gwynne
• Sybil: Faye Marsay
• Randolph Churchill: Jordan Waller
• Mary Churchill: Mary Antony
• Sarah Churchill: Bethany Muir
• Pamela Churchill: Anna Burnett
• Maurice Baker: James Eeles
• Agnes Dillon: Roisin O’Neill
• Jerome Margaret: Joanna Neary
• Jessie Sutton: Flora Nicholson
• Brigadier Nicholson: Richard Glover
• Admiral Dudley Pound: Paul Leonard
• Tom Leonard: Eric MacLennan
• Ramsay Staffer: Tom Ashley
• BBC Producer: Pip Torrens
• Young Girl on Train: Bronte Carmichael
• Maid: Patsy Ferran
• Oliver Wilson: John Locke
• AD Nicholl (Secretary #1): James Harkness
• W D Wilkinson (Secretary #2): Joshua James
• Cecil Beaton: Kieran Buckeridge
• Self (archive footage) (uncredited): Adolf Hitler
• Member of Parliament (uncredited): Johnny Otto

Film Crew:

• Casting: Jina Jay
• Producer: Tim Bevan
• Producer: Eric Fellner
• Director of Photography: Bruno Delbonnel
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Craig Berkey
• Music: Dario Marianelli
• Editor: Valerio Bonelli
• Director: Joe Wright
• Costume Design: Jacqueline Durran
• Production Design: Sarah Greenwood
• Supervising Art Director: Nick Gottschalk
• Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
• Stunt Coordinator: Jamie Edgell
• First Assistant “A” Camera: Julian Bucknall
• Standby Art Director: Emma MacDevitt
• First Assistant Director: Dan Channing-Williams
• Second Unit Director: Thomas Napper
• Producer: Douglas Urbanski
• Producer: Lisa Bruce
• Assistant Set Decoration: Netty Chapman
• Producer: Anthony McCarten
• Second Assistant Director: Gayle Dickie
• Executive Producer: James Biddle
• Foley Editor: Rob Turner
• Stunts: Nick Roeten
• Art Direction: Joe Howard
• Modeling: Maxime Moreira
• Additional Casting: Rachel Desmarest
• Makeup Designer: Ivana Primorac
• Property Master: Dennis Wiseman
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Paul Cotterell
• Foley Artist: Barnaby Smyth
• Sound Mix Technician: Johnathan Rush
• Still Photographer: Jack English
• Gaffer: Chuck Finch
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Stephane Naze
• Supervising Sound Editor: Becki Ponting
• Art Direction: Oliver Goodier
• Costume Illustrator: Geo Pavlov
• Aerial Director of Photography: Jeremy Braben
• Special Effects Supervisor: Neal Champion
• Production Manager: Jo Wallett
• Camera Operator: Des Whelan
• Dialogue Editor: Michael Maroussas
• Sound Designer: Paul Carter
• Post Production Supervisor: Tim Grover
• Prosthetic Makeup Artist: Kazuhiro Tsuji
• Wigmaker: Diana Choi
• Makeup Supervisor: Christine Whitney
• Rigging Gaffer: Tommy Finch
• Unit Publicist: Sasha Gibson
• Set Designer: James Collins
• Prosthetic Makeup Artist: David Malinowski
• Carpenter: Alex Abelman
• Key Makeup Artist: Flora Moody
• ADR Mixer: Mark Appleby
• Set Decorating Coordinator: Tamara Catlin-Birch
• Wigmaker: Bob Kretschmer
• Executive In Charge Of Production: Louis Phillips
• Second Unit Director of Photography: Carlos De Carvalho
• Armorer: Jon Baker
• Visual Effects Editor: Christopher Collis
• First Assistant “B” Camera: Paul Wheeldon
• Production Secretary: Katy Lawrence
• Casting Associate: Jessie Frost
• ADR Mixer: Jeff Gomillion
• ADR Voice Casting: Vanessa Baker
• Production Coordinator: Lawrence Mason
• Armory Coordinator: Ben Rothwell
• Publicist: Joshua Jason
• Production Sound Mixer: John Casali
• Boom Operator: Chris Murphy
• Digital Intermediate: Matt Adams
• Assistant Costume Designer: Andrea Cripps
• Set Dresser: Roberto Oliveri
• Art Department Assistant: Marie Boon
• Art Department Assistant: Lottie Geliot
• Construction Coordinator: Stephanie Gibbins
• Construction Coordinator: Julia Newell
• Carpenter: Josh O’Neill
• Assistant Art Director: Isona Rigau
• Assistant Art Director: Matt Robinson
• Carpenter: Robert Sansom
• Electrician: Dave Clements
• Armorer: Sam Dormer
• Visual Effects Producer: Warwick Hewett
• Costume Coordinator: Claire Watson
• Assistant Sound Editor: Oskar von Unge
• Key Grip: Paul Hymns
• Makeup & Hair: Heather Manson
• Digital Imaging Technician: Mark Kozlowski
• Foley Mixer: Keith Partridge
• Props: Dean Morris
• Armorer: Faujja Singh
• Aerial Coordinator: Mike Woodley
• Prosthetic Makeup Artist: Lucy Sibbick
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Patricia Leblanc
• Lighting Technician: Jack Ridout
• Set Costumer: Sophie Hart-Walsh
• Digital Intermediate Producer: Charlotte Llewelyn
• First Assistant Editor: Tommaso Gallone
• Script Supervisor: Phoebe Billington
• Marine Coordinator: Ian Creed
• Electrician: Stuart Hurley
• Digital Compositor: Tracie Donais
• Stunts: Cristian Knight
• Pilot: Giles Dumper
• Drone Pilot: Alan Perrin
• Electrician: David Cormack
• Lighting Technician: Mike King
• Dressing Prop: Mark Jones
• Assistant Property Master: Steven Morris
• Graphic Designer: Georgina Millett
• Digital Compositor: Alex Jadfard
• Digital Compositor: Gudjon Kristjansson
• Digital Compositor: Kyle Greenberg
• Matte Painter: Alexander Isaksson
• Matte Painter: Morgan Lang
• Matte Painter: Laurence Provost
• Visual Effects Production Assistant: Anne-Marie Ouellet
• Stunts: Andrew Burford
• Props: Karl Koroscik
• Special Effects Technician: George Spensley-Corfield
• Matte Painter: Nicolas Chavigny
• Digital Imaging Technician: Peter Marsden
• Production Executive: Tiffany Tiesiera
• Painter: Jamie Davies-Evans
• Pipeline Technical Director: Marc-Olivier Rouleau
• Pipeline Technical Director: Declan McGuire
• VFX Artist: Yan Caspar Hirschbuehl
• Costume Assistant: Joel Christopher
• Best Boy Grip: Dave Wells
• Production Accountant: Daniel Budd
• Researcher: Rebecca Cronshey
• Standby Painter: Simon Hutchings
• Lighting Technician: Gabriele Filippelli
• Compositor: Carl St-Pierre
• Second Assistant “B” Camera: Andrew Jones
• VFX Artist: Michael Frattasio
• Libra Head Technician: Josh Milne
• VFX Artist: Miguel Algora
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Nicholas Bennett
• Costume Assistant: John Usher
• Hairstylist: Madlen Mierzwiak
• Extras Casting: Charlie Rotheram
• Digital Intermediate Editor: Jenny-Jayne Webb
• Props: Dale Walters
• Second Unit First Assistant Director: Tom Edmondson
• Hairstylist: Jacqueline Rathore
• Production Assistant: Angela Moneke
• Production Coordinator: Oliver Cockerham
• Lighting Technician: Filippo Giansante
• Carpenter: Peter ‘PJ’ Newman
• Painter: Paul Gunner
• Dailies Operator: Maikel Popic
• Costume Assistant: Hayley Clair Stewart
• Digital Imaging Technician: Phoebe Fraser
• Assistant Accountant: Ane Stubberud
• Rotoscoping Artist: Yuliia Kondratova
• Digital Compositor: Tiago Barbosa
• Production Executive: Sanjay Sharma
• Production Assistant: Oliver Stotter
• Extras Casting: Adam Penny
• Second Assistant Director: Aaron Hartley
• Second Assistant Director: Sarah Mooney
• Carpenter: Carl Alsop
• Carpenter: Zak Brogan
• Carpenter: Chris Brough
• Carpenter: Grant Cort
• Carpenter: Gavin Hosler
• Dressing Prop: Terence Harrington
• Dressing Prop: Thomas Moriarty
• Dressing Prop: Charlie Summerville
• Standby Carpenter: Matthew Bailey
• Costume Assistant: Bonnie Radcliffe
• Casting Assistant: Alice O’Donoghue
• Extras Casting: Elliot Wood
• Dailies Manager: Cherri Arpino
• Title Designer: Tom Hingston
• Payroll Accountant: Tanya Mellotte
• Production Secretary: Samuel Harman
• Sound Mix Technician: Chris Robins
• Compositor: Shailendra Kumar Pandey
• Rotoscoping Artist: Samuel Rousseau
• Rotoscoping Artist: Justin Hebert
• Rotoscoping Artist: Shenouda Isaac Nazer
• Electrician: Perry Cullen
• Grip: Duncan Steven
• Dialogue Coach: Emma Woodvine
• Production Assistant: Abby Vickers
• Production Assistant: Hugo Williams-Ellis
• Hairstylist: Jo Nielsen

Movie Reviews:

• Mex5150: I have no idea why people are raving about this film, it’s a bit crap, it’s probably Oldman weakest performance to date, and the cinematography is terrible. Churchill with Brian Cox in the lead role is a FAR superior film on the subject.
• Gimly: As with many of the biopics I’ve seen recently, _Darkest Hour_ is more focussed on delivering you the facts than getting you involved with the characters. It is an interesting idea to have the majority of the story revolve around the of whether or not to sue for peace. That as a core concept in so much as the question of “Do I take the guarantee of saving my country or do I take the risk of saving the world?” and beyond that “Is there even a right answer to that question? And who am I to decide something this big?” is a great philosophical centre for a movie. But I never felt like I knew why any of these people had the answers that they gave. I get that in a historical context, these aren’t characters they are real life people, so they answers they had are the answers we see, but again, we are only given the _what_, not the _why_.

  Except you can throw all of that away because here comes Gary Oldman in his Oscar nominated transformation to make this movie 100% worth watching.

  _Final rating:★★★ – I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go._

• barrymost: It’s 1940, and Hitler is attempting to take over Europe. The film takes an interesting look at Winston Churchill’s first five weeks as Prime Minister. The acting in this movie is quite accomplished; good actors bring insight and depth to the characters. Overall, it’s a well-done, engrossing film. Gary Oldman’s performance as Winston Churchill was very good indeed, and his delivery of Churchill’s speeches alone make watching the movie worthwhile!
• Ruggerview: I saw this film at TIFF on the big screen and loved it. There’s not a weak member of the cast. I really loved the way the photography reflected the sense of gloom that would have been felt by the people facing a new war. Big thumbs up, gives a strong sense of the time and place.
• Peter89Spencer: Gary Oldman was superb as Churchill.