This powerful follow-up to “The Gathering Storm” follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he guided his beleaguered nation through the crucible of the war years--even as his marriage was encountering its own struggles.
Acting
Gleeson's Churchill is a wounded bulldog in a sweating wig.
Production
War rooms so authentic you can practically smell the stale tea.
Director
Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Brendan Gleeson
Winston Churchill
Adrian Scarborough
Sawyers
Iain Glen
King George VI
James D'Arcy
Jock Colville
Janet McTeer
Clementine Churchill
Robert Pugh
General Ismay
Len Cariou
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Patrick Malahide
Major General Bernard Montgomery
Aleksey Petrenko
Josef Stalin
Jack Shepherd
Neville Chamberlain
Donald Sumpter
Lord Halifax
Gethin Anthony
1st Pilot
Emma Hamilton
Betty
John Albasiny
Stalin's Interpreter
Clive Mantle
Thompson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gleeson gained 30 pounds and learned Churchill's actual mannerisms from rare home footage, not just newsreels.
This was HBO's companion piece to 'The Gathering Storm' (2002), but recast Albert Finney's role—making Gleeson the second Irishman to play Britain's most iconic Prime Minister in five years.
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