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Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler: the "old lion" against the "German eagle". The "bear of Downing Street" versus "der Wolf". Two radically contradictory personalities whose enmity represented the 20th century as the "age of extremes". An imposing film all from the archives, brimming with life, plot twists and dramatic turns of events, based on meticulously colored and remastered images.
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00:00May 10th, 1940. An extraordinary coincidence. The same day that Hitler
00:16launches his lightning war on Western Europe, Churchill is named Prime Minister
00:21of Great Britain. As if fate had a hand in the decision.
00:30A few weeks later, Hitler conquers France, Holland and Belgium. Churchill finds himself isolated,
00:41facing an army that has already vanquished a large portion of Europe. Churchill refuses
00:51to surrender.
00:52We shall defend our island, whatever the gods may be. We shall fight on the beaches,
00:58we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall never surrender.
01:04You can defend us. You can defend us. You can defend us. We shall capitulate.
01:14Between 1940 and 1945, Hitler and Churchill devoted every minute of their existence to
01:20the other's destruction. These two diametrically opposed personalities
01:27will do battle, and both promise their people victory.
01:37The combat these Titans wrought determined the course of human destiny.
01:45Beneath the clamor of bombs, a river of blood and bodies, these larger than life leaders seem
01:50to fuse with their nations. Their duel, undoubtedly the most important of the modern era, pits two
02:01possible worlds against one another. How did they get here? How did destiny bring two men
02:09nations so different, and yet at times so alike, together for this ultimate confrontation?
02:29The first showdown between these two 20th century giants took place well before 1940.
02:35It's 1916, and the First World War drags on.
02:43At this point, more than two million soldiers are already dead.
02:49World War I proves an unspeakable massacre.
02:55From the sodden trenches of the Artois region of France, a British officer writes to his wife.
03:01Filth and rubbish everywhere, graves built into the defenses and scattered about promiscuously,
03:07feet and clothing breaking through the soil, the unceasing accompaniment of rifle and machine guns,
03:13and the venomous whining and whirring of the bullets which pass overhead.
03:17Amid these surroundings, aided by wet and cold, and every minor discomfort,
03:23I have found happiness and content such as I have not known for many months.
03:29The author of these lines, who seems to relish the cold under the hail of bullets, is Winston Churchill.
03:35And if he seems as comfortable in the trenches as in his bath,
03:39it's because his youth was already a veritable adventure novel.
03:43Winston is born in one of England's most beautiful palaces in 1874.
03:49American by his mother and English aristocracy by his father,
03:55the boy has never spread toothpaste on his own toothbrush.
03:59Educated in boarding school, he is a restless student with poor grades.
04:05His father considers him a dullard.
04:07Quickly reoriented to a military career, the young man surprises everyone.
04:13He distinguishes himself as a soldier in three colonial wars on the outskirts of the empire.
04:19In India, Sudan, and South Africa.
04:27Back in England, the intrepid hussar enters parliament and holds a series of government posts.
04:33At age 36, he's already home secretary.
04:37Graced with insatiable ambition and astonishing eloquence,
04:41the following year he is named First Lord of the Admiralty,
04:44which becomes one of the world's most prestigious posts when World War I breaks out.
04:53But his ascension is abruptly interrupted.
04:56Because in 1915, he commits an unforgivable act.
05:00He torpedoes his political career with a bungled occupation during the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey,
05:06a mission intended to attack German forces from the rear.
05:19More than 100,000 soldiers from the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and France
05:24die in the course of this disastrous campaign.
05:32Churchill is forced to resign.
05:35He enters a difficult, depressive phase, which he calls his black dog.
05:40At 42 years old, he's considered a finished man.
05:43But Churchill labores idleness.
05:49So the former First Lord of the Admiralty and Home Secretary decides to join the French front lines.
05:55He's transferred to a Scots battalion that is fighting in Flanders.
05:59Churchill loves combat, and the roar of the cannons helps keep at bay his two most notorious enemies,
06:08inactivity and depression.
06:11In the long hours between attacks, Churchill drinks whiskey, writes, takes baths,
06:17and very near the front line gives in to an all-consuming passion, painting.
06:33Just a few kilometers away, on the other side of the trenches,
06:36a young corporal in the Bavarian infantry is passionate about painting as well,
06:40and sketches tirelessly.
06:44A volunteer in the German army, Adolf Hitler is 27 years old,
06:4915 years younger than Churchill.
06:53For many years, he has wanted to become a professional artist.
07:01In the foxholes of Flanders, he's a dispatch rider,
07:05carrying messages from one position to another under barrage and artillery fire.
07:08After almost two years of war, the young soldier, well-noted, diligent and serious,
07:16is already radically reevaluating his life.
07:23The routine of military life suits him perfectly.
07:29It's his first war, and he's convinced he's found his place at last.
07:32Indeed, there were many years of aimless wandering for the young Austrian.
07:41Born in a lower-middle-class household to an extremely violent father and an overprotective mother,
07:47Hitler had a very troubled childhood.
07:49Given his poor academic results, his father envisions a career as a public servant for his son,
07:54but the young man wants to be a painter.
08:00At 18, he leaves home and moves to Vienna.
08:09Hitler fails the entrance exam to the Academy of Fine Arts, twice.
08:12The misunderstood artist makes little effort to earn a living.
08:17He barely gets by selling his works, which acquaintances say are painted in an unhurried rhythm.
08:24For a time, he's even forced to stay at a homeless shelter, and lives in poverty.
08:30On August 2, 1914, a divine surprise.
08:37War is declared.
08:39Hitler, in Munich, is euphoric.
08:42I'm not ashamed to say that, overcome by a storm of enthusiasm,
08:47I fell on my knees and thanked heaven from an overflowing heart, he later writes.
08:52The conflict jolts the failed painter from his torpor.
08:57Thus, as early as World War I, Corporal Hitler and Lieutenant Colonel Churchill are in direct opposition.
09:08Everything separates them.
09:10Their background, their nationality.
09:12But down in the trenches, the two soldiers resemble one another.
09:16The smell of gunpowder and paint are like a fountain of youth to them.
09:22Here, Hitler forgets his parents who died prematurely,
09:25and his repeated failures in art school.
09:28Churchill pushes aside the shame that dogged him after Gallipoli.
09:33And perhaps forgets his father, who always belittled him as well.
09:37The two intrepid soldiers distinguish themselves on the battlefield.
09:44Hitler is decorated with an iron cross first class.
09:50A distinction he'll display his entire life.
09:55After six months in the mud, Churchill's depression lifts and he's feeling much better.
10:07The deputy returns to London.
10:10Fifteen months later, he joins the government as minister of munitions.
10:14The two men don't yet know one another, but in the eye of the steel storm that pummels northern Europe,
10:19their duel has already begun.
10:22The bullets that Adolf Hitler dodges were manufactured by the minister of munitions, Winston Churchill.
10:31Hitler is wounded several times.
10:33In October 1918, the corporal is the victim of a mustard gas attack and evacuated to a hospital behind the front lines.
10:43For him, the war is over.
10:46One month later, the armistice is signed.
10:54Germany has lost.
10:57The victory is celebrated around the world.
11:01In Britain, Churchill regains his post and his rank.
11:05The minister of munitions has accomplished several feats.
11:09Curious and passionate, he oversaw the production of munitions as well as armored tanks,
11:14whose use he encouraged, and which were decisive in a number of battles.
11:21Many in England credit him with the victory,
11:24and during the parade, he is well positioned.
11:34While Churchill is in the light, Hitler is in darkness.
11:38He is in darkness.
11:40Temporarily blinded, Germany's surrender is a humiliating blow for the young corporal.
11:45The peace imposed by the Treaty of Versailles, nicknamed the Versailles diktat, disgusts him.
11:52Germany is partially occupied and sometimes even plundered by the victors.
11:56Part of the country is amputated, enormous war reparations must be paid, and its battleships are dismembered with blowtorches.
12:12For Hitler, it's a stab in the back to a prestigious nation.
12:17No longer sure what to do with his life, Corporal Hitler joins the German Workers' Party, an extreme right-wing group that's one of a dozen that exist at the time.
12:33The first time he speaks in public, the audience is riveted at this precise moment.
12:38I understood that I knew how to speak, he writes later.
12:45Thanks to his eloquence, he quickly becomes the party's speaker of choice.
12:50Hitler, the failed artist, the lazy student, the wounded soldier, now knows he's good at something.
12:58He's propelled to the head of the movement, which he renames the National Socialist German Workers' Party, the Nazi Party for short.
13:11And he's certain of his mission, seize power.
13:18The war has lifted Churchill out of his depression and gotten Hitler off the streets.
13:24Both men are brimming with ambition.
13:29Hitler wants to restore Germany's image.
13:32Churchill wants to restore his family's reputation because of his father's failed ministerial career and the fact that he died ostracized from his party.
13:42The two orators begin a new chapter in their lives.
13:45In post-war Germany, economic scarcity and revolutionary stirrings collide.
13:57Hitler becomes the talk of the town.
14:04He leads sympathizers in a Putsch in Munich.
14:06The attempted coup is a resounding failure.
14:12Fourteen Nazi militants are killed.
14:15A trial takes place a few weeks later.
14:20Hitler turns the courtroom into a veritable tribunal.
14:24The accused states,
14:25I have not come to deny anything.
14:29The responsibility for this Putsch is mine and mine alone.
14:35The orator wins the audience's sympathy.
14:38He is sentenced to only five years in prison with a promise of conditional early release.
14:43His determination before the judges makes him famous throughout Germany.
14:47In his spacious prison cell in Landsberg, Hitler writes a book,
14:54Mein Kampf, My Struggle, in which he lays out his racist and anti-democratic ideology.
15:02After barely nine months of incarceration, he's out.
15:10Hitler has managed to enhance his aura.
15:13Prison should have silenced him.
15:14Instead, it placed him at the head of the party and offered him a springboard.
15:20The no-name Austrian painter has entered into history.
15:25He's become the Führer, the guide.
15:31The failure of the Putsch convinced him that power can only be seized by a ballot box.
15:44Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, it's also thanks to his talent as a speaker that Churchill rises from post to post in the ministries of war, aviation, and the colonies.
15:55The minister puts his finger in many pies, armaments, secret service, cracking codes.
16:00The talented public servant is also attentive to his family and life in society.
16:09Married to Clementine Hosier, father of four, he receives guests at Chartwell, a manor house where he plays the gentleman farmer.
16:16An ambitious parliament member, he is up on current events and knows how to put himself in the spotlight.
16:23When appendicitis stops him from campaigning, he arrives at the polling station in a chair.
16:29Churchill's career is bright.
16:31At 50, he is named Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Minister of Finance.
16:41Thus, by the middle of the 1920s, two former soldiers, painters, writers, and orators, are back in the saddle.
16:50But they are worlds apart from one another.
16:53If the Englishman suggests, the German bellows.
16:56If the petty bourgeois sweats as he pushes back a lock of hair, the aristocrat is not above antics that play to the gallery.
17:06Churchill is a world-class drinker, always tipsy, perhaps, but never drunk.
17:12Hitler detests alcohol and wonders how anyone can drink champagne, which he calls nothing but vulgar vinegar.
17:19Churchill is often accompanied by his wife, Clementine.
17:23Hitler plays it chaste and claims that his only spouse is Germany.
17:32The patriotic Churchill has humor and wit.
17:35He holds court for hours in the chamber of deputies because his colleagues fear getting a taste of his deadly eloquence if they challenge him.
17:42Like the day when Deputy Lady Astor said to him, Mr. Churchill, if I were your wife, I'd poison your coffee.
17:50To which Churchill retorted, Madam, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.
17:54The nationalist Hitler never debates because no one dares contradict him.
18:01He delivers long monologues that can last for hours.
18:04But his speeches fascinate the crowds and resemble mass religious conversions.
18:09The more he speaks, the more the faithful flock to him.
18:12His speaking skills are magnified by his ability to cast a hypnotic spell over his listeners.
18:22But the skills these two theatrical giants display are also the fruit of tireless practice.
18:28The nervous man from Munich tries out new poses, expressions, and gestures, perfecting them to better communicate with the people he wants to influence.
18:44The extravagant Englishman prepares his improvised discourses for hours on end.
18:48By the end of the 1920s, the two men are now important figures in their respective countries.
18:57But an event will change their destiny.
19:05In October 1929, panic breaks out on Wall Street.
19:10The stock market crashes.
19:13Soon the world's economy is plunged into a recession.
19:16In England, the conservative government is swept aside.
19:22Winston loses his post as Minister of Finance.
19:26Every political faction attacks him for his disastrous mismanaging of the Treasury.
19:34The straight shooter becomes a pariah.
19:37No one trusts him.
19:39He confides,
19:41They said I was the worst Chancellor of the Exchequer that England ever had.
19:46And they were right.
19:47While Churchill hits bottom, Hitler is a rising star.
19:54Fed by the crisis, the firebrand has transformed an insignificant group into an increasingly powerful machine.
19:57The firebrand has transformed an insignificant group into an increasingly powerful machine.
19:58The firebrand has transformed an insignificant group into an increasingly powerful machine.
20:02The firebrand has transformed the firebrand.
20:03The firebrand has transformed an insignificant group into an increasingly powerful machine.
20:04The firebrand has transformed an insignificant group into an increasingly powerful machine.
20:09The firebrand has transformed an insignificant group into an increasingly powerful machine.
20:16The firebrand has transformed an insignificant group into an immediately powerful machine.
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20:26and the firebrand is left.
20:27The firebrand has transformed the situation.
20:29His Alright LIVA for Jerusalem has explained it.
20:30The firebrand does not change its probability.
20:32The firebrand has transformed the peacefulness.
20:33Interherbrand has transformed theased power and supernatural parachutes.
20:34The 2014 million, the 20 and the 30 million.
20:42Hitler understands the frustrations of the German people
20:45and knows the humiliation of defeat better than anyone.
20:49The strength of his convictions rallies his countrymen around him.
21:04The future of the German people,
21:11the future of the German people.
21:15If we ourselves, this German people,
21:19a goal for their own work, their own pride, their own pride,
21:25their own Trots, their own Beharrlichkeit,
21:28then we will come back again,
21:30just like the elders of the German people
21:33who will not be sent to us,
21:35who will not be sent to us.
21:43His hoarse and penetrating voice elicits emotion
21:46and instinctively unleashes passions.
21:48Germany, free!
21:50Free!
21:52Free!
21:54Free!
21:56Free!
21:59Free!
22:00His political movement transforms into a way
22:03that sweeps across the whole of society.
22:05Free!
22:07Free!
22:09Free!
22:10Free!
22:18So much so that in January 1933,
22:21the little corporal is named Chancellor of Germany
22:24by President Hindenburg.
22:25Nine years after his failed putsch,
22:30the insurgent has succeeded in rising to the very top.
22:38Hitler sees the purpose of democracy as a means to seize power,
22:42and more importantly, not to lose it.
22:46Once in office, he bans every faction that could hurt him.
22:49Unions and opposition parties are dissolved and outlawed.
22:52Jews are persecuted.
22:56Hitler drives Germany into darkness.
23:00a recluse at his manor in Chartwell,
23:10Churchill is completely isolated.
23:12He may be alone, but he has no intention of watching from the sidelines,
23:17because he is one of the few people to have read Mein Kampf.
23:21As early as 1934, he alerts the public to the danger Nazi Germany represents.
23:30only a few hours away by air, there dwells a nation of nearly 70 million,
23:39of the most educated, industrious, scientific, disciplined people in the world,
23:44who are being taught from childhood to think of war as a glorious exercise,
23:51and death in battle as the noblest fate for man.
23:56There is a nation, which with all its strength and virtue,
24:01is in the grip of a group of ruthless men,
24:04preaching a gospel of intolerance and racial pride,
24:09unrestrained by law, by parliament, or by public opinion.
24:15From their new table of commandments, they have omitted,
24:19in the city. Thou shalt not kill him.
24:24Now they are re-armed with the utmost speed.
24:28And in faith of these facts, I ask again,
24:32what are we to do?
24:36A long-distance duel begins between the aristocrat and the petty bourgeois,
24:41a duel largely dominated by the dictator.
24:43Flouting the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler prepares his people's revenge for 1918.
24:52He reinstates obligatory military service, and launches a rearmament policy.
25:01In 1936, he re-militarizes the Rhineland,
25:04the buffer zone at the French-German border,
25:06by pretending he has a powerful army,
25:08when in fact he has only two divisions.
25:11But the bluff works.
25:14Neither France nor England raise a finger.
25:19In March 1938, he activates Anschluss,
25:22the annexing of Austria into the German Reich.
25:27Nazi marketing still hums along,
25:30and the annexation resembles a regional celebration.
25:34within 48 hours, Austria ceases to exist.
25:42Once more European democracies so fear war that they remain silent.
25:48Winston again denounces the forceful takeovers,
25:51but his press department is less powerful than that of the Reich.
25:59To fill the long days, the occasionally depressed recluse oversees the construction of a swimming pool on his property.
26:06He takes great interest in the Mason work, and even becomes a member of the Mason's Federation.
26:19The greatest irony is that influential members of his society now reject Churchill while embracing Hitler.
26:29Lloyd George, former British Prime Minister,
26:33signatory of the Treaty of Versailles and Churchill's former brother-in-arms,
26:36visits him in Burghoff.
26:42As does Edward VIII, the Duke of Windsor, ex-King of England, with whom Churchill was close.
26:49The former sovereign seems to support the Nazi dictator's political views.
26:54In part because Hitler has stepped up lobbying to neutralize warmongers in the opposition camp.
27:01His supporters even operate on British soil.
27:07In the heart of London, British Nazis often take part in parades,
27:12passing themselves off as pacifist militants.
27:14They display stop war protest signs, which implies the Reich is preparing for war, but don't make war with the Reich.
27:31In 1937, the bluffing Berliner will even attempt to influence Churchill himself.
27:36He sends his ambassador, Ribbentrop, to London to sound out the old deputy who has denounced them for so many years.
27:45Ribbentrop explains to Churchill that Germany needs breathing room to the east,
27:51and even guarantees that Germany will defend the British Empire.
27:56But Churchill immediately refuses.
27:59England will never accept a colonial enterprise to the east.
28:02Ribbentrop abruptly turns away and says,
28:06In that case, war is inevitable.
28:08There is no way out.
28:10The Fuhr is resolved.
28:11Nothing will stop him.
28:13Do not underrate England, exclaims Churchill.
28:17She is very clever.
28:18If you plunge us all into another great war,
28:21she will bring the whole world against you, like last time.
28:24But neither Hitler nor Ribbentrop worries about the threats of a 63-year-old deputy.
28:29In the eyes of Britain and Hitler, he's finished.
28:37Nevertheless, Churchill relentlessly condemns the policy of appeasement and the wrongheaded pacifism of the British political class.
28:43Ostracized by Parliament, he continues to believe in his lucky star and comes off like a lunatic when he claims,
28:52History will prove you wrong in this matter.
28:55And if I am so sure, it's because I will write it myself.
28:59For now, it's Hitler who is dictating history.
29:08No more bluffing.
29:10The Wehrmacht has become a powerful war machine, and no one can curb the Fuhrer's appetite.
29:15After the Rhineland and Austria, Hitler demands in no uncertain terms possession of the Sudets region of Czechoslovakia,
29:24where three million Germans live.
29:26He announces point blank to the Czech president, Edvard Veneš, that he's willing to go to war for it.
29:31And behind me, that was the world, which is a war, and it was a war, and it was a war, and it was a war, and it was a war, and it was a war.
29:45One thing that I want to do is the first battle of prisoners in Rome, and the first letter was the first battle of the Gulf.
29:52And I pray to
29:57that I am so sure that I am so sure that I am so sure that I am so sure, there must be a war in the world about it.
30:05To prepare a war on the sea, I am so sure that you will be the same there, and you will be that one you will be the same.
30:13Hitler has become a master at the art of frightening declarations.
30:18Terrified by the power of the Wehrmacht, horrified at the idea of a new war,
30:23Paris and London, both allies of Czechoslovakia,
30:26nevertheless signed the Munich Pact which bestows the Sudets region to Hitler
30:31in exchange for a mere scrap of paper.
30:36The English see Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
30:39as a hero who has preserved peace.
30:43God bless you, Mr. Chamberlain
30:48You know we're all with you
30:51And when we shout, God bless you, Mr. Chamberlain
30:55Our hands go up to you
30:58Come, everybody, God bless you
31:01Away from the spotlight, Churchill doesn't applaud.
31:04He prophesizes,
31:06You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
31:10You chose dishonor and you will have war.
31:20Less than six months later, Hitler violates the Munich Pact.
31:24In March 1939, his army invades what remains of Czechoslovakia and triumphantly enters Prague.
31:31Contemplating the city from the fortified castle of the kings of Bohemia, Hitler savors his victory.
31:43A camp aide informs him that neither France nor England have moved their armies.
31:47He replies,
31:51I knew it.
31:52In two weeks, no one will speak of it again.
31:59Since taking power, the German Eagle hasn't made one false move.
32:02He succeeded in taking over Rhineland, Austria and Czechoslovakia without firing a single shot.
32:12If history had stopped there,
32:14Despite the persecution of his opponents, Hitler would have been considered a great German statesman.
32:20In six years, he stopped inflation, fought unemployment, gave Germans back their pride and made Germany the most powerful European nation.
32:33And if history had stopped there, Churchill the aristocrat would have been considered a politician with an outstanding oratory talent,
32:44But an overly impulsive and depressed man who had ruined his career like his father before him.
32:50But history has more surprises in store.
32:56By invading Czechoslovakia, Hitler proved the eastern nation was powerless.
33:06Progressively, public opinion swings in the other direction.
33:09The English now understand that Churchill was right all those years about Germany's intentions.
33:17The newspapers announce, we still need Churchill.
33:20A few months later, on September 1st, 1939, Hitler invades Poland.
33:28France and England finally enter the war.
33:33Prime Minister Chamberlain has no choice but to bend to public opinion.
33:37Churchill, the failed politician, is immediately called back to serve his government.
33:4325 years after his humiliating ousting following the Gallipoli disaster,
33:47Churchill is once again named First Lord of the Admiralty.
34:00The ministers curse their pesky colleague.
34:04But Winston has become untouchable.
34:09He's the only real warrior in the government.
34:11Because Chamberlain has proved a catastrophe as a wartime prime minister.
34:17The consequences are swift.
34:20Goodbye, Mr. Chamberlain.
34:21And thanks for all you've tried to do.
34:23We welcome the new prime minister, Mr. Churchill.
34:25May 10th, 1940, the same day that Churchill is named prime minister, Hitler attacks Belgium, France and the Netherlands.
34:3920 years after the First World War, the two men now find themselves face to face, each at the head of their own nation.
34:50Hitler, who thought he had seen the last of his main rival, has in fact put him back in power.
34:58After a decade of observing one another, the two men will finally do battle.
35:02Excluded from political life for more than 10 years, Churchill has been dreaming of this moment, and it's understandable.
35:11This is the challenge that could restore his reputation.
35:15At 65 years of age, the old British bulldog senses he was made for this moment.
35:21Since starting at the ministry, this warrior has overseen the development of the weapons and inventions necessary to defending the empire.
35:27Armored tanks, the Royal Air Force, the secret services, radar technology, and the ships of the Royal Navy.
35:36Each of these units owe their modernization, and even their very existence, to Churchill.
35:47But the prime minister's most powerful weapon is his extraordinary eloquence.
35:52Hitler has indoctrinated his people for almost seven years.
35:58Churchill has only a few days to find the words that will give his people the courage to resist against all odds.
36:04I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined the government,
36:11I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
36:19We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind.
36:24We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering.
36:28You ask, what is our policy?
36:32I will say, it is to wage war by sea, land, and air, with all our might, and with all the strength that God can give us.
36:41To wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime.
36:49That is our policy.
36:52You ask, what is our aim?
36:56I can answer in one word, victory.
36:59Victory at all costs.
37:01Victory in spite of all terror.
37:04Victory however long and hard the road may be.
37:07Hearing him speak, even members of the opposition are in tears.
37:14The people of England, like the French of the same era, are caught between fear, defeatism, and the instinct to survive.
37:21The underlying courage was there, but it had to be awakened.
37:25And that's what Churchill did.
37:27Still, on that night, the new Prime Minister had doubts.
37:31He is cheered by the crowd, which shouts,
37:33Good luck, Winnie. God bless you.
37:36But once he's alone, Churchill breaks down in tears and confides to his generals.
37:43Poor people.
37:45They trust me, and I can give them nothing but disaster for quite a long time.
37:56Disasters?
37:58They crop up even sooner than expected.
37:59Hitler has developed the Lightning War, a highly effective warfare technique.
38:08Thousands of Wehrmacht tanks, supported by the Air Force, penetrate France and wreak havoc.
38:17In just a few hours, the chain of command is broken.
38:19On May 20th, after only 10 days of fighting, the German troops reach the English Channel.
38:32More than 500,000 British and French soldiers find themselves trapped in the pocket of Dunkirk.
38:37Their backs to the sea, they are under German fire.
38:48Hitler destroys or captures a large part of the Allied army.
38:53In light of the defeat, some British ministers want to negotiate with Hitler.
38:57But Churchill won't bend.
39:02Better to die fighting.
39:06But before dying, the army must be rescued.
39:10Churchill launches Operation Dynamo.
39:14Its mission?
39:16The evacuation of Dunkirk.
39:18On May 26th, more than 220 warships and more than 660 civilian boats, supported by the RAF, come to the aid of the Allied divisions.
39:31Under heavy fire from the Luftwaffe, British strategists hope to bring home at least 50,000 of the half a million soldiers stationed on the beaches.
39:48Despite the shelling that rips through the naval vessels, in 10 days, more than 335,000 soldiers are evacuated and brought home safe and sound to England.
40:08Churchill deems Operation Dynamo a miracle because it literally saved the British Army.
40:14This heroic evacuation considerably enhanced his standing.
40:19Newsreels commend the mission's success.
40:24Out from the hell that is Dunkirk, back from the steel thrust of the German war machine, comes the BEF.
40:30They're worn out and footsore.
40:32They're hungry.
40:34For weeks they have been shelled and bombed from three sides.
40:37They had to stagger back to the sea to survive.
40:39They were betrayed, but never defeated or dispirited.
40:42Round these men there hangs an atmosphere of glory.
40:46While these men live and breathe, Britain is safe.
40:50The enemy will never pass.
40:53But the headlines neglect to mention that the Allies have left their equipment behind.
40:58Their cannons, their tanks, and even their dead.
41:04Churchill is a realist.
41:05He states,
41:06You must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory.
41:12Wars are not won by evacuations.
41:18Hitler is delighted.
41:20He's won the Battle of France in record time.
41:22His generals never imagined getting so far so quickly.
41:33Revenge for 1918 has been served.
41:36The vanquished of yesterday are today's victors.
41:38Hitler is definitely a god of war.
41:52With France defeated, Churchill is more alone than ever.
41:55But the old bulldog won't be waiting quietly for the invasion.
41:59The United Kingdom is turned into a fortress.
42:01And to secure its seas, the Prime Minister launches an operation that will capture everyone's imagination.
42:10July 3, 1940.
42:12Winston makes the difficult decision to bomb the French fleet based at Mares El Kabir near Oran.
42:16Because of the armistice signed by the French, its ships could fall into Hitler's hands and take part in an invasion of England.
42:331,297 French sailors are killed in the offensive.
42:37One month earlier, these soldiers fought side by side with the British.
42:41This was a hateful decision, the most unnatural and painful in which I have ever been concerned, confides Churchill.
42:52The attack is bloody, but it proves to the world the Prime Minister's tenacity.
42:57Faced with the bulldog's determination, the Eagle resorts to trickery.
43:12Do the British really want war?
43:14Hitler hopes to convince them to oust Churchill and sign an armistice on the French model that would avoid a lot of blood, sweat and tears.
43:23There is no shortage of Englishmen eager to negotiate.
43:28Lloyd George or even the Duke of Windsor could take control of the Empire.
43:33July 19, Hitler himself makes an appeal for peace to the treacherous Albion.
43:38In this special situation, my body was once again a call for peace, even in England.
43:52I believe that I can do this because I am not willing to ask for something,
43:57but only to speak for peace.
44:00I see no reason for this fight.
44:03But in unison with the people of England, Churchill rejects the olive branch extended on the tip of a cutlass,
44:15and newsreels mock the Fuhrer.
44:18There are various uses to which Hitler's leaflets may be put, for example, shaving paper.
44:24The Germans are dumbfounded.
44:31Can you believe these English imbeciles?
44:34Now they are rejecting peace? They're crazy, is heard in the streets of Berlin.
44:41Hitler thought he could triumph over Britain without a fight.
44:44He's forced to revise his strategy because there's a stone in his path.
44:49A stone named Churchill.
44:50A confrontation is inevitable. The Battle of Britain begins.
44:57In the great metropolis of a far east island,
45:01that is stretched on the sea like a big rain from the tentacles in hand,
45:06there was a sinister castle, with shadows and fantasies,
45:10populated by the most poisonous wild animals,
45:14that had man and the monster.
45:16In the middle, every time he wanted to introduce himself to human beings,
45:26he prepared a certain food,
45:28a mixture of the most dangerous but dangerous ingredients,
45:32that allowed him to transform himself miraculously.
45:35The Battle of Britain is a killer of the Uhhuh.
45:38The Battle of Britain is a ghostly
45:39named at the U.S.
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