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Filmography of Winston Churchill

Known as: PoliticalWriting and Thought

5 titles in the archive · first depicted 1925

Lived1874 – 1965

Shelfmark Vita CLV

5
titles
4 films · 1 series (1 ep)
3.5/5
average rating
across 5 rated titles
8h 19m
on screen
across 5 titles
60%
set in Western Front (World War II)
3 of 5 appearances
80% film
film vs television
4 of 5 appearances · 20% television

Compare their 5 titles in the Canons

13 years of a 91 year life depicted onscreen

Distinct years the archive depicts, against Winston Churchill’s lifetime (1874 – 1965) — 14.3% of it.

Depicted in

1925192619341936193719391940194419471948194919501951

First and Last on Screen

Earliest portrayalIke: Countdown to D-Day2004
Most recentDarkest Hour2017

13 years of cinema separate them. A series is sorted here by the first year of its release.

A series counts once, regardless of how many of its episodes feature them.

Historical Threads

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Dunkirk Evacuationpull it on the timeline

Event

The surrounding and subsequent evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force and allied forces from the town of Dunkirk in Northern France in 1940. The evacuation cemented itself in the popular imagination with the mass deployment of British civilian craft to help rescue trapped soldiers as the German forces surrounding them closed their encirclement.

filed under 1940

Runs throughWestern Front (World War II)3 titlesInterwar Years

D-Daypull it on the timeline

Event

The largest invasion by sea in human history, D-Day is the popularized name for Operation Neptune, or the Allied invasion of the German-occupied Normandy coast in June 1944. After months of planning, experience gained from previous invasions in Italy and in the Pacific, and extensive preparation efforts, the Allies were successfully able to secure a beachhead from which they were able to push out towards the rest of France, liberating Paris by August 1944 and greatly accelerating the end of the Second World War in Europe.

2 titles of theirs · filed under 1944

Runs throughWestern Front (World War II)8 titlesWorld War II

The Box Office Ledger

What the films portraying Winston Churchill cost to make and took at the worldwide box office, as TMDB records them.

$45 million
in budgets
over 2 films with both sums
$565.1 million
at the box office
over 2 films with both sums
13×
return on budget
box office ÷ budget
Budget and box office of each film
FilmBudgetBox office
The King's Speech$15,000,000$414,211,549
Darkest Hour$30,000,000$150,847,207
Churchill$10,000,000not recorded

US dollars as TMDB records them, not adjusted for inflation. 3 films of the 4 portraying them carry either sum.