The Gathering Storm

Year: 2002

Actors: Simon Williams, John Standing, Lena Headey, Tom Hiddleston

Duration: 96 min

A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Sir Winston Churchill (Albert Finney) and Clementine Churchill (Vanessa Redgrave) during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives. In the years before World War II, Churchill found himself on the fringe of British politics: a lone voice crying out in the wilderness as he warned his country and the world of a Nazi threat. Together with Clementine, he had to confront the personal demons of depression, and the specter of insolvency, before he could reemerge as a reinvigorated political leader and hero.—

Genre: Action   Biography   Drama   History