Companion film to "Dunkirk", explores the role of Churchill.

Rating: Null/10 (13 April 2018)

My wife and I watched this at home on DVD from our public library system. I was a decent student back in high school but I learned more WW2 history this year than ever before with this movie and its inadvertent companion, "Dunkirk."
Where "Dunkirk" started with British and French troops hemmed in at Dunkirk by German troops, and depicts the miracle evacuation of most of those 400,000 men, this movie "Darkest Hour" depicts what was going on in England during those days, focusing on the "war room" and newly appointed Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Gary Oldman received many awards for his performance, in elaborate makeup, as Winston Churchill. His awards are well-earned as I was almost able to forget that I was watching an actor. Churchill in total is a controversial person but in this one specific case, with the future of Great Britain as stake, his being adamant about fighting until the end rather than negotiate with Germany was a turning point in WW2.
It is a long movie at just over two hours but never boring, always interesting, even though certainly some details were changed or fabricated for dramatic effect. Still it is a remarkably good movie and a great companion to the other movie, "Dunkirk."