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Gary Oldman portrays Winson Churchill in 'Darkest Hour'. (© 2017 FOCUS FEATURES LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED)
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‘Darkest Hour’: an interview with director Joe Wright

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Churchill’s days of destiny

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British prime minister Winston Churchill and home secretary John Anderson leave 10 Downing Street, London, after a War Council meeting in May 1940. (Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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The May 1940 War Cabinet Crisis: Churchill’s darkest hour?

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Churchill on film: the challenges of portraying a Second World War icon

Sky covered by smoke from the first H-Bomb explosion at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific, 1 April 1954. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
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Winston Churchill: atomic warrior, nuclear peacemaker

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Churchill’s army: the wartime leader’s military track record examined

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British soldiers arrive to take part in the battle of France, 1940. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)
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Books interview with Daniel Todman: “Everything that happened in 1940 isn’t somehow down to Winston Churchill” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Winston Churchill with a bulldog mascot as he leaves the Wanstead Conservative Club in his Woodford, Essex constituency on general election day, 23 February 1950. (Photo by Central Press/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
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Q&A What is the significance of the British Bulldog?

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12 things you should know about Churchill’s Second World War tunnels under the White Cliffs of Dover

British statesman and writer Winston Churchill, aged 26. Photograph by Elliott & Fry. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Books interview with Boris Johnson: “Churchill was a tremendous bully in some ways, but we needed a bully”

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10 things you (probably) didn’t know about Churchill’s secret Second World War warriors

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Churchill’s wartime speeches are overrated, claims academic

Winston Churchill, former prime minister of the United Kingdom, gives his 'victory' sign while making a polling day tour of his constituency during an election. (Getty Images)
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Are these the most overrated people in history?