"Rebel Soldier Hustler Prisoner Fugitive Firebrand"

1972

2h 29m

6.2(47 votes)

Action

Adventure

Drama

War

Overview

This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.

Where to Watch

Buy

Rent

Links & Resources

IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

Videos & Trailers

2 videos

Cast & Crew

83 members

Acting

Simon Ward

Winston Churchill

Acting

Peter Cellier

Le capitaine du 35e Sikhs

Acting

Robert Shaw

Lord Randolph Churchill

Acting

Anne Bancroft

Lady Jennie Churchill

Acting

Jack Hawkins

Mr. Welldon

Acting

Ian Holm

George E. Buckle

Acting

Anthony Hopkins

David Llyod George

Acting

Edward Woodward

Captain Aylmer Haldane

Acting

John Mills

General Kitchner

Acting

Patrick Magee

General Bindon Blood

Acting

James Cosmo

Officer on Train

Acting

Jane Seymour

Pamela Plowden

Acting

Robert Hardy

Prep School Headmaster

Acting

Laurence Naismith

Lord Salisbury

Acting

Reginald Marsh

Prince of Wales

Acting

Dinsdale Landen

Capt. Weaver

Acting

John Woodvine

Howard

Acting

Clive Morton

Dr. Roose

Acting

Robert Flemyng

Dr. Buzzard

Acting

Richard Leech

Moore

Acting

Colin Blakely

Butcher

Acting

Andrew Faulds

Mounted Boer

Acting

Edward Burnham

Henry Labouchere

Writing

Russell Lewis

Winston (age 7)

No Image

Acting

Norman Gay

Sir Charles W. Dilke (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Ronald Hines

Adjutant

Acting

Dino Shafeek

Sikh Solider

No Image

Acting

Pat Haywood

Mrs. Everest

No Image

Acting

William Dexter

Arthur Balfour

Acting

Basil Dignam

Joseph Chamberlain

Acting

John Stuart

Speaker Peel

No Image

Acting

Noel Davis

Interviewer

Acting

Michael Audreson

Winston (aged 13)

No Image

Acting

Peter Mann

Harrow Speech Room Boy

No Image

Acting

Julian Holloway

Capt. Baker

Acting

Thorley Walters

Major Finn

Acting

Patrick Holt

Colonel Martin

Acting

Norman Bird

Party Chairman

Acting

Edward Woodward

Aylmer Haldane

Acting

Gerald Sim

Engineer

Acting

Ron Pember

Fireman

Acting

Maurice Roëves

Brockie

Acting

James Cossins

Barnsby

Acting

Norman Rossington

Dewsnap

Acting

Pippa Steel

Clementine Hozier

Acting

Robert Harris

Speaker Gully

Acting

Edward Burnham

Hanry Labouchere

Acting

Raymond Huntley

Old Officer

Acting

Jack Armstrong

Member of Parliament (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Jack Arrow

Member of Parliament (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Richard Beal

Boer Sentry (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Alan Beaton

Member of Parliament (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Hyma Beckley

Opposition MP (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Ernest Blyth

Member of Parliament (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Vic Chapman

Clerk of the Commons (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Jimmy Charters

Member of Parliament (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Jeremy Child

Austen Chamberlain (uncredited)

Acting

Alan Cope

Member of Parliament (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Brenda Cowling

Mrs. Dewsnap (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Arnold Diamond

Officer (uncredited)

Acting

Willoughby Gray

Gladstone (uncredited)

Acting

Victor Harrington

House of Commons Doorkeeper (uncredited)

No Image

Crew

Alan Harris

Member of Parliament (uncredited)

Acting

Nigel Hawthorne

Boer Sentry (uncredited)

Acting

Lindsay Hooper

Member of Parliament (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Kevin Hudson

Jack Winston (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Pat Judge

Member of Parliament (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Juba Kennerley

Harrow school master (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Robert Lankesheer

Sympathetic MP (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Roy Lansford

Member of Parliament (uncredited)

Acting

Raymond Mason

Man in Theatre Gallery (uncredited)

Acting

George Mikell

Field Cornet (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Hugh Morton

Lord Randolph Churchill's Butler (uncredited)

Acting

Fred Peck

Member of Parliament (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Bob Raymond

Man on Stage (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Tony Snell

Member of Parliament (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Byron Sotiris

Member of Parliament (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Guy Standeven

Harrow School Master (uncredited)

Acting

Fred Stroud

Member of Parliament (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

John Tatham

Member of Parliament (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Harry Tierney

Member of Parliament (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Sanders Watney

Sir Winston (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

John Wilder

Member of Parliament (uncredited)

No Image

Similar Movies

5.8

2017

Oru Mexican Aparatha

The student politics in a government college has for long revolved around the students' organisation KSQ. Subhash and Paul attempts to change the political scenario by launching a new movement called SFY based on their ideologies.

Movie

7.0

1992

Howards End

A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.

Movie

8.1

2007

There Will Be Blood

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.

Movie

7.3

1995

Dead Man

William Blake, an accountant turned fugitive, is on the run. During his travels, he meets a Native American man called Nobody, who guides him on a journey to the spiritual world.

Movie

7.7

1943

The Ox-Bow Incident

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.

Movie

7.5

1962

The Manchurian Candidate

Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.

Movie

7.5

1975

The Man Who Would Be King

A robust adventure about two British adventurers who take over primitive Kafiristan as "godlike" rulers, meeting a tragic end through their desire for a native girl. Based on a short story by Rudyard Kipling.

Movie

7.6

2001

Moulin Rouge!

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.

Movie

6.6

1951

Olivia

"Olivia" captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. The innocent but watchful Olivia develops an infatuation for her headmistress Julie and through this screen of love observes the tense romance between Julie and the other head of the school Cara in its final months.

Movie

2.8

1970

Dreams of Love

This is a romantic biographical film about Franz Liszt. In a distinguished saloon of Paris, the unknown composer, Liszt, defeats the renown Thalberg at a piano competition. Through his playing, he wins the favours and later the hand of the countess D'Agoult. A daughter is born in their marriage, Cosima. Liszt is better and better known, Marie introduces him to the circle of artists.

Movie

7.8

1990

Dances with Wolves

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

Movie

7.6

2003

The Last Samurai

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.

Movie

7.4

1994

Interview with the Vampire

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.

Movie

8.2

2006

The Prestige

A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

Movie

7.9

1962

The Miracle Worker

The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie reaches out to Helen through the power of touch, the only tool they have in common, and leads her bold pupil on a miraculous journey from fear and isolation to happiness and light.

Movie

6.8

1999

Anna and the King

The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teacher Anna Leonowens during the 1860s. Anna teaches the children and becomes romanced by the King. She convinces him that a man can be loved by just one woman.

Movie

10.0

2016

Santa Maria della Salute

The film narrates a tormented love story between one of the most famous poets of Serbian literature, Laza Kostic, renowned for his sublime poetic puns and word coining and an enchanting young girl by the name of Lenka Dundjerski, an educated and refined daughter of a landowner Lazar Dundjerski. Standing in the way of their love is the insurmountable age gap between the two, as Kostic is 29 years older than his beloved one. The affair inspired one of the most sophisticated and tender love poems of the time, an utmost expression of yearning, in which the poet's unflinching devotion is linked to his admiration for a Venice basilisk by the name of Santa Maria della Salute.

Movie

6.6

1975

American Torso

In the final days of the American Civil War, an emigre Hungarian military officer attempts to map the situation of the enemy. Many veterans of the 1848 War of Independence in Hungary fought on the northern side. Experienced Fiala, Boldogh who struggles with homesickness and the reckless Vereczky all experience their enforced emigration in different ways and news of impending peace elicits different reactions from them all.

Movie

6.6

2002

Crime and Punishment

John Simm stars in this adaptation of Dostoyevsky's tragic masterpiece - a profound drama of redemption and a thrilling detective story of the soul.

Movie

6.9

1998

Velvet Goldmine

Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an investigative journalist is on assignment to uncover the truth behind his former idol.

Movie

Recommended Movies

6.8

2001

Gosford Park

In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.

Movie

6.1

1989

We're No Angels

Two escaped cons' only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.

Movie

7.4

1968

The Lion in Winter

Henry II and his estranged queen battle over the choice of an heir.

Movie

6.3

1966

Khartoum

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.

Movie

8.0

1973

The Sting

A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.

Movie

7.4

2017

Darkest Hour

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.

Movie

8.7

1972

The Godfather

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

Movie

8.5

2014

Interstellar

The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

Movie

8.4

2004

Howl's Moving Castle

Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to fighting for the king.

Movie

7.9

1997

Titanic

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.

Movie

7.6

2009

Avatar

In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization.

Movie

7.7

2014

Nightcrawler

When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.

Movie

8.1

1976

Taxi Driver

A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action.

Movie

8.2

1977

Star Wars

Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.

Movie

8.7

1994

The Shawshank Redemption

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

Movie

8.5

1994

Pulp Fiction

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.

Movie

7.8

2014

The Theory of Everything

The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.

Movie

6.6

2006

Silent Hill

Rose, a desperate mother takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash, Sharon disappears and Rose begins a desperate search to get her back. She descends into the center of the twisted reality of a town's terrible secret. Pursued by grotesquely deformed creatures and townspeople stuck in permanent purgatory, Rose begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years earlier.

Movie

8.2

2017

Coco

Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.

Movie

7.4

2006

The Devil Wears Prada

Andy moves to New York to work in the fashion industry. Her boss is extremely demanding, cruel and won't let her succeed if she doesn't fit into the high class elegant look of their magazine.

Movie