Personal Info
Birth date
1874-11-30 (151 Years)
Day of death
1965-01-24
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Blenheim, Oxfordshire, England
Also known as
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA
Winston Churchill
Biography
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.
Filmography
American Experience
6.9
Overview:
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.Pearl Harbor
6.939
Overview:
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.Churchill: A Life: His Life & Great Speeches
NYR
Overview:
This film covers the extraordinary life and great speeches of Winston Churchill that include the words: 'We shall never surrender,' 'blood, toil, tears, and sweat,' 'This was their finest hour.' 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few,' 'the end of the beginning.' Churchill's life and speeches were an inspiration during a time when the world needed it most.Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
NYR
Overview:
The coronation of Elizabeth II as queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms took place on 2 June 1953 at Westminster Abbey in London. She acceded to the throne at the age of 25 upon the death of her father, George VI, on 6 February 1952, being proclaimed queen by her privy and executive councils shortly afterwards. The coronation was held more than one year later because of the tradition of allowing an appropriate length of time to pass after a monarch dies. It also gave the planning committees adequate time to make preparations for the ceremony.Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
6.1
Overview:
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
8.1
Overview:
Documentary exploring the parallels between 'The Return of the King' and real events and people in history.Storm Front in Mayo
7.5
Overview:
Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day comes to depend on the readings taken by Maureen Flavin, a young girl who works at a post office, used as a weather station, in Blacksod, in County Mayo, the westernmost promontory of Europe, far from the many lands devastated by the iron storms of World War II.Johnny Got His Gun
7.488
Overview:
A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
7.2
Overview:
"Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the history of nuclear weapons development and testing between 1945-1963. Narrated by William Shatner and featuring an original score performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, this award-winning documentary reveals previously unreleased and classified government footage from several countries.Churchill's People
1
Overview:
Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies. 26 episodes were produced by the BBC and initially broadcast from 30 December 1974 to 23 June 1975.Carry On England
4.5
Overview:
Captain S. Melly takes over as the new Commanding Officer at an experimental mixed sex air defence base. It's 1940 and England is under heavy bombardment, but the crew seem more interested in each other than the enemy planes above. Captain Melly plans to put a stop to all this, and becomes the target of a campaign to abandon his separatist ideals...Devils Don't Dream!
7.3
Overview:
Before his journey into exile Jacobo Arbenz, the overthrown President of Guatemala, is presented to photographers stripped down to his underwear: an image seen around the world. Arbenz had led the successful 1944 revolt against the military dictatorship, a regime that had oppressed Guatemala since colonialism. Arbenz, the son of Swiss immigrants, was celebrated as a national hero. Elected President in 1950, Arbenz was not a member of any party - he didn't issue any manifestos. But he began to fulfill his promises - farmers got their own land. 'The first act of justice since colonial times,' said Arbenz. In the early 1950s, with the Cold War intensifying, then Vice President Richard Nixon said, 'Arbenz is not a Guatemalan President.' Nixon called him 'a foreigner, manipulated by foreign powers.' The young President of Guatemala was soon overthrown, declared a traitor, and chased out of the country.The King Who Fooled Hitler
6.964
Overview:
In a tale of double agents and decoys, this documentary reveals, for the first time, the story of King George VI's elaborate ruse to divert German attention away from the Normandy landings in 1944.The Downing Street Patient
NYR
Overview:
Michael Cockerell presents this documentary on the health problems of Britain's Prime Ministers.Britain and the Blitz
7.318
Overview:
Documentary looking back at a Britain during the darkest days of WWII using stunning new archived footage and interviews with people who lived through it.Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
7.3
Overview:
A double portrait of two dictators who were thousands of miles apart but were constantly fixated on each other.Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
7.5
Overview:
For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.” In Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, Ken Burns examines the lives of three extraordinary men who shared the primary responsibility for this invention and its early success, and whose genius, friendship, rivalry and enmity interacted in tragic ways. This is the story of Lee de Forest, a clergyman’s flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor who pioneered FM technology; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the most powerful communications company on earth.All This and World War II
5.2
Overview:
Peter Gabriel is among the rockstars performing the music of Lennon and McCartney against a montage of World War II newsreel footage.The Inside of the Cup
NYR
Overview:
Minister John Hodder becomes rector of a prestigious church in the Midwestern city of Bremerton but finds dissension and malfeasance among his congregation. When he calls it out both tragedy and a way forward are revealed.1964: Brazil between weapons and books
7.2
Overview:
We question the most unquestionable period in our history. The result was an international investigation with part of secret attempts, discovery of Soviet documents and a lot of investigation by the Brazilian media. It was all under our eyes.Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
6.9
Overview:
The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes committed by Stalin's ruthless executioners over three decades. The mass murder of thousands of Polish officers was part of a relentless purge, the secrets and details of which have only recently been partially revealed.When the Wind Blows
7.394
Overview:
With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II.Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
6.5
Overview:
A documentary about the influences on Tolkien, covering in brief his childhood and how he detested the onslaught of industry through the idyllic countryside, moving on to describe his fighting experience from WWI, and closing with a look at the Finnish inspiration for the scholar's self-invented languages of Elfish. In between are interviews with the cast of the films and some clips, by far the most from "The Fellowship of the Ring", but a few glimpses of Rohan riders (from "The Two Towers") are provided. Also, there are interviews with a range of the filmmakers.No Hamburg, No Beatles
7.5
Overview:
“We were born in Liverpool but grew up in Hamburg”, John Lennon once said. This feature documentary seeks to find the truth in those words. The long and winding road that the Beatles took to worldwide fame passed through Hamburg, Germany in the early 1960s. Only a couple of years before they became household names, the former Quarrymen were cutting their musical teeth on nightclub stages in the city. Hamburg had become the vice capital of Europe after World War Two, its neon-lit streets home to sailors, sex workers, drug dealers, gangs and low life. Meanwhile, the English band was still developing, still young and virtually unknown. By the time of their last German visit in 1966, the Beatles were an international phenomenon. 'No Hamburg, No Beatles' explains how learning their trade in this fascinating city helped propel them to global stardom.Coup 53
7.962
Overview:
Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed tyrant Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, have conspired with agents of the British MI6 and the US CIA, manage to put an end to the democratic government led by Mohammad Mosaddegh, a dramatic event that will begin the tragic era of coups d'état that, orchestrated by the CIA, will take place, over the following decades, in dozens of countries around the world.Stalin: Man of Steel
NYR
Overview:
Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted portrait of the man who succeeded Lenin as the head of the Soviet Union. With a captivating blend of period documents, newly-released information, newsreel and archival footage and interviews with experts, the program examines his rise to power, deconstructs the cult of personality that helped him maintain an iron grip over his vast empire, and analyzes the policies he introduced, including the deadly expansion of the notorious gulags where he banished so many of his countrymen to certain death.Drain the Oceans
7
Overview:
Maritime mysteries—old and new—come to life in this series, combining scientific data and digital re-creations to reveal shipwrecks, treasures, and sunken cities on the bottom of lakes, seas and oceans around the world.Acting
TBAUFO Invasion at Rendlesham as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
TBAX-Day: The Invasion of Japan as Self (archive footage)
2025Sverige och kriget (5 Episodes) as Self (archive footage)
2025Britain and the Blitz as Unknown
2025The False Promise of Advancement as Self (archive footage)
2024No Hamburg, No Beatles as Self (archive footage)
2024Atomic People as Self (archive footage)
2024Apocalypse: D-Day (2 Episodes) as Self (archive footage)
2024Churchill’s Forgotten War as Self (archive footage)
2024The Bloody Hundredth as Self - British Prime Minister (voice) (archive sound)
2023Où est Winston Churchill ? Le vol du Château Laurier as Unknown
2023The Mistake that Killed Hitler as Self (archive footage)
2023LOLA as Self - Politician (archive footage)
2023Filmmakers for the Prosecution as Self - Politician (archive footage)
2022The Century of Icons (2 Episodes) as Self (archive footage)
2022Elizabeth: The Unseen Queen as Self (archive footage)
2021Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the West (2 Episodes) as Self (archive footage)
2021The Arc de Triomphe: A Nation's Passion as Self (archive footage)
2021Parsifal: The Hidden Causes of World War II as Self (archive footage)
2020Korea, A Hundred Years of War as Self (archive footage)
2020Money, Fascism, and Some Sort of Acid as Self (archive footage)
2020Stalin and the Katyn Massacre as Self (archive footage)
2019Laboratory Greece as Self (archive footage)
2019Coup 53 as Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019The Phoney War as Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019Greatest Events of World War II in Colour (5 Episodes) as Self (archive footage)
20191964: Brazil between weapons and books as Himself
2019Julie Andrews Forever as Self (archive footage)
2019Storm Front in Mayo as Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019The King Who Fooled Hitler as Self (archive footage)
2019Korea: The Never-Ending War as Self (archive footage)
2019Battlefield Gender as Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019Brexit: The Uncivil War as Self (archive footage)
2019The Hitler–Stalin Pact as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2018Countdown zum Zweiten Weltkrieg (1 Episode) as Self (archive footage)
2018Drain the Oceans (1 Episode) as Self (archive footage)
20181914-1945 : Les grands hommes des deux guerres as lui-même
2017Agnelli as Self (archive footage)
2017The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill as Self - Politician (archive footage)
2017The Story of Diana (1 Episode) as Self (archive footage)
2017Код доступа (1 Episode) as Self
2017Viceroy's House as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым (1 Episode) as Self (archive footage)
2016The Marvellous World of Roald Dahl as Self (archive footage)
2016I Betrayed Hitler as Self (archive footage)
2016Brexit as Self (archive footage)
2015The Jack King Affair as Self - Politician (voice) (archive footage)
2015The Street Performers as Self (archive footage)
2015In Their Own Words (1 Episode) as Self (archive footage)
2015The BBC at War (2 Episodes) as Self (archive footage)
20151945: The Savage Peace as Self (archive footage)
2015The Great European Disaster Movie as Self (archive footage)
2015Laissez-faire as Self (archive footage)
2014Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century as Self (archive footage)
201439-45, de la France occupée à la France libérée (1 Episode) as (Archives)
2014D-Day Sacrifice (2 Episodes) as Self (archive footage)
2014Apocalypse: World War I (1 Episode) as Self (archive footage)
2013Speeches That Shook the World as Self (archive footage)
2013Reza Shah as Self (archive footage)
2012The Untold History Of The United States as Self (archive footage)
2012Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States (2 Episodes) as Self (archive footage)
2012A Jubilee Tribute to The Queen by The Prince of Wales as Self (archive footage)
2012Challenging Churchill as Self
2012De Gaulle, le géant aux pieds d'argile as Self (archive footage)
2012Edward & George: Two Brothers, One Throne as Self (archive footage)
2012The Nazi Gospels as Self - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
20114 Days in May as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2009Apocalypse: The Second World War (6 Episodes) as Self (archive footage)
2009World War II in Colour (13 Episodes) as Self (archive footage)
2009Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility as Self (archive footage)
2007How to Be an Ex-Prime Minister as Self
2007Warlords (4 Episodes) as (archive footage)
2005The Goebbels Experiment as Self (archival footage)
2004Celsius 41.11 as Self (archive footage)
2004Voices from the List as Self (archive footage)
2004The Downing Street Patient as Self (archive footage)
2003Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King as Self (archive footage)
2003Days That Shook the World (1 Episode) as Self (archive footage)
2003The Corporation as Self (archive footage)
2003Stalin: Man of Steel as Self (archive footage)
2001Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring as Self (archive footage)
2001Pearl Harbor as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001Churchill: A Life: His Life & Great Speeches as Self (archive footage)
2000WWII: The Lost Color Archives (4 Episodes) as Self (archive footage)
1997Devils Don't Dream! as Self (archive footage)
1996The Astors: High Society as Self (archive footage)
1996A Web of War as Self (archive footage)
1995Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie as Self (archive footage)
1995Truman as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1994FDR as Self (archive footage)
1992The Valour and the Horror (1 Episode) as Self (voice) (archive audio)
1991The Complete Churchill (4 Episodes) as Self (archive footage)
1991Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio as Self - Finest Hour Speech (archive sound)
1991Within These Walls: A Tour of the White House as Self (archive footage)
1988American Experience (2 Episodes) as Self (archive footage)
1986When the Wind Blows as Self (archive footage)
1986Return to Dresden as Self (speech) (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
1985Backstage at the White House as Self (archive footage)
1984Battle for Warsaw as Self - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (archive footage)
1983Schindler as Self - Politician (archive footage)
1983Unknown Chaplin (4 Episodes) as Self
1982Genocide as Self (archive footage)
1977Soldier of Orange as Self - Politician (voice) (archive footage)
1977Hitler: A Career as Self (archive footage)
1976All This and World War II as Self (archive footage)
1976Carry On England as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1976Songs for After a War as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1975Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
1971Johnny Got His Gun as Self - Opening Credits (archive footage) (uncredited)
1969The Extraordinary Seaman as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1968A Wall in Jerusalem as Self (archive footage)
1968This was the MARY as Self (archive footage)
1964The Guns of August as Self (archive footage)
1964The Battle of France as Self
1963Was der Wehrmachtsbericht verschwieg as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1961The Aegean Tragedy as Self (archive footage)
1955So war der deutsche Landser as Self (archive footage)
1953Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II as Self
1953A Queen Is Crowned as Self
1950The Debate Continues as Self
1950Wonderful Times as Self (archive footage)
1949Crusade in Europe (1, 10 Episode) as Self (voice)(archive footage), Self (archive footage)
1945John Bull's Own Island as Self (archive footage)
1945The True Glory as Self
1945Berlin Conference as Self
1945Crimean Conference as Self
1944Know Your Ally: Britain as Self (archive footage)
1944Attack in the Pacific as Self (archive footage)
1943Forgotten Treasure as Self (archive footage)
1943Mission to Moscow as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1943Desert Victory as Self (archive footage)
1943Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer as Self - with de Gaulle and Giraud (archive footage)
1943Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike as Unknown
1942United We Stand as Self (archive footage)
1942The Civilian Serves as Self (archival footage)
1941Words for Battle as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1939The Four Just Men as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1923'All the Winners' - And the Losers! as Unknown
1911Houndsditch Murderers as Self
1911Battle of London as Self
Writing
1974Churchill's People (26 Episodes) ... Book
1974The Gathering Storm ... Book
1969The First Churchills (12 Episodes) ... Book
1964The Other World of Winston Churchill ... Writer
1964The Finest Hours ... Book
1921The Inside of the Cup ... Novel
1916The Crisis ... Novel