Academy Award worthy!

Rating: 10/10 (17 February 2018)

Someday, there might be a better movie made about Winston Churchill. But, for now, this is the finest effort to date! It is outstanding. Gary Oldman should hand's down win the Academy Award. If not for the credits, one wouldn't know Churchill was being played by Oldman, and perhaps that's the greatest indication of how well an actor is portraying a character.
In terms of history, this movie essentially shows the turning point of World War II in Europe. This is the moment where Great Britain, and by extension the British Empire, was alone against the Nazis and their Axis allies. The closing speech and scene of this movie is where Hitler truly lost his opportunity to turn continental Europe into a Nazi sphere of conquest.
The senior level conflict between Lord Halifax, colluding with a recently defeated Neville Chamberlain, while shocking to modern day senses fully educated on the true depth of evil Hitler represented, was portrayed quite accurately in this movie. So, while shocking, it is quite accurate history!
It is widely documented that Adolph Hitler fully believed he could sue for peace with Great Britain immediately after defeating France, and firmly believed it was Winston Churchill who kept that from happening. Hitler was correct! There were a number of well known Britons who openly sympathized with the Nazis, and others who simply believed it was necessary to avoid calamity on the British Isle.
It is difficult to project the vast changes in human history had the Nazis been able to secure a peace treaty with Britain after the fall of France, and then turned its full might against the Soviet Union. One must wonder, without even the material assistance of the United States, could Russia had singlehandedly defeated the Nazi invasion?
Russian people would unanimously claim they would have still defeated Germany, and perhaps they would have. But, without question, the absence of a second and third front would have assisted Germany greatly.
Britain's Finest Hour would never have even happened, had not Operation Dynamo succeeded, and had Winston Churchill not rallied the British people to persevere. One can make a salient argument that a Nazi Third Reich would have become a reality, and not simply a near ten year blight upon human civilization!
This movie beautifully and faithfully portrays these critical events, centered on a single man, who amid horrible threat and limited options for survival, summoned up a will to inspire a miracle at Dunkirk followed by one of humanity's greatest examples of defeating evil against vast odds.