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This captivating 4-part docuseries examines Winston Churchill's pivotal role in World War II and the formative events that made him an ideal leader for the era. Brought to life with his own words, the series explores Churchill's wartime strategy and the legacy that follows.
Transcript
00:00Never give in.
00:06Never, never, never, never.
00:10In nothing, great or small, large or petty, never give in.
00:19Winston Churchill, he is a warrior first, so he understands war.
00:24We shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender.
00:29But then he's also this poet, who is able to translate that to the public.
00:36We are guardians of our country in an age when her life is at stake.
00:41Hitler wanted the British people to be bombed into submission.
00:48Churchill projected the image of calm determination.
00:52He was supposed to be in the bomb shelter, but he was up on the roof.
00:56We are determined to persevere to the very end.
01:00He'd been raised to serve the British Empire, to keep it together.
01:04He's now been given that opportunity.
01:06He found ways of stirring people, making them feel that they were going to win.
01:15He comes to seem as sort of an oracle.
01:18The odds were great, our margins small, the stakes infinite.
01:26When the shadows lengthened, when darkness seemed to be falling,
01:32it was Churchill who said no.
01:38Evil would not prevail.