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Darkest Hour is a 2017 British biographical war drama film directed by Joe Wright and written by Anthony McCarten.It stars Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill, in his early days as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War and the May 1940 war cabinet crisis.
Churchill meeting King Farouk in Cairo in December 1942. As 1942 drew to a close, the tide of war began to turn with Allied victories in El Alamein and Stalingrad. Until November, the Allies had been on the defensive, but afterwards, the Germans were. Churchill ordered church bells to be rung throughout Great Britain for the first time since ...
Winston Churchill in his honorary air commodore's uniform, c. 1940. Named the Greatest Briton of all time in a 2002 poll, and widely regarded as being among the most influential people in British history, Winston Churchill has been regularly portrayed in film, television, radio and other media.
Marshal Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953) and Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) together at the Livedia Palace in Yalta, where they were both present for the conference in 1945.
Hangmen is a play by the British-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. It received its world premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in September 2015, before transferring to the West End's Wyndham's Theatre. [1] The play was directed by Matthew Dunster, designed by Anna Fleischle, and featured David Morrissey and Reece Shearsmith among others.
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill is a trilogy of biographies covering the life of Winston Churchill. The first two were published in the 1980s by author and historian William Manchester , who died while working on the last volume.
Hangmen is the plural of hangman; an executioner who carries out a death sentence by hanging. Hangmen, or The Hangmen, may also refer to: Hangmen (DC Comics), a DC Comics supervillain team; Hangmen, a 1987 American film; Hangmen, a play by Martin McDonagh; The Hangmen (British band) The Hangmen (Washington, D.C. band) Hangmen Motorcycle Club
Albert Pierrepoint (1905–1992) was the most prolific British hangman of the twentieth century, executing 434 men and women between 1932 and 1955. This table records the locations of each of the executions he participated in, the numbers in brackets being the number of executions he was assistant executioner at (often assisting his uncle, Thomas Pierrepoint), the other numbers are those in ...