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Winston.

Winston.

Where were you?

Beaches always bring it back.

Almost 30 years have gone now.

So many young men.

So much waste.

It's getting late.

Come on.

I mustn't let it happen again.

Winston.

Winston.

Good God.

Winston!

- I was working.
- You're late.

Burden.

Burden.

Give me a Louis XIII, Smuts.

For five years
we have asked our men,

to endure the tribulations of war.

No, no, no...
The trials of war.

Yes. For five years
we have asked our men,

to endure the trials of war.

Suffering of war.
Yeah, sufferings of war.

You are ready to go.

Honestly, darling,
I think you will need these.

- Knee-breeches.
- Weren't you allowed to wear the uniform?

- The king will be there.
- Will so the Americans.

His Majesty takes precedence,
even over them.

That is the way it is done.

Americans respect military uniforms.

I am choosing between trials
and tribulations.

Do stop adding to them.

This is all gonna go splendidly.

The Cabinet Office has sent you
a new secretary.

- Could you say hello?
- Why do I need a new secretary?

Because you ate the last one.

- Helen Garrett.
- My dear.

Who's envy you to drop to the floor my dear?
I am not royalty.

Sorry, I...
It's such a honor...

to meet you, Mr. Churchill, sir.

- My mother and I are huge supporters.
- Ah, yes?

Yes. Well, you are the one, sir.
The one who will see us through.

You won't give up on us.

My dear Miss Garrett,
that's why I fight on every day.

And now I must go forth and do just that.

- I'll try to reel him in.
- You can try.

Miss Garrett.

The sufferings of war.
No, no, no. No.

For five long years

our people have endured
the sufferings of war.

The soldiers have born
their burden with pride.

The soldiers have born
their burden with valor.

Valor is better than pride.

The soldiers have born
their burden with valor...

and pride.

Attention!

- Here we go.
- Winston.

General Eisenhower.

Field Marshal Brooke.

- General Montgomery.
- Mr. Churchill.

What a gathering.

Sorry to expose you to the English summer.

- We couldn't risk this meeting in London.
- Just think...

if Hitler were to drop a bomb
on this little patch

he would at one blast...

destroy the entire high command
of our allied forces.

Let's hope we get through it?

Thank you.

Sir.

Majesty, gentlemen.
This is our last briefing on...

Operation Overlord,
the assault on the German

occupying forces in the north of France.

We have only a three day window,
before the tides change

making it impossible to land our crafts.

So it is a great throw of the dice.
But if we win the day,

we'll go a long way toward,
winning the war.

We are in final stages,

but as usual I welcome
any criticism to this plan as it stands.

We must all work together,
to pull this off.

Prime Minister?

This will be the greatest campaign

yet mounted by our allied forces.

Operation overlord
would require 200,000 vehicles,

a fleet of 7,000 ships,
swarms of planes...

most essentially
a quarter of a million men.

All this, will be focused,
in one place.

Taking the German army head on.

- That's right.
- No, gentlemen, no.

This plan may be admirable in its bravery

but in its risk
it is fool hearted.

- Jesus Christ.
- Our own causality estimates predict

that anything up to 160,000
French civilians will be killed.

If Overlord fails,
which would all too easily could...

we will lose at one strike
most of our war material,

along with tens of thousands
of our own men.

Who then will defend England?

Would you have us do nothing with the
Nazis amassing 20 miles off our shores?

No! I would have us do more!

We must split the advance,
to spread the risk.

- No.
- Don't you see?

We could tempt
Hitler's forces into the Aegean.

Draw his eye away from the coasts of France.

The plans for D-Day
have been in place for over a month.

For five long years
we have asked our men,

to endure the tribulations of war.

They have born their burden
with valor.

But I have seen
beach landings such as this before

in the first war.

The potential for disaster is too great.

We must not rush in.
We must think

and we must fix this
broken plan,

before it ends in tragedy.

Well, that sounds rather if...

we are discussing different
operations.

Sir, Overlord has been fully prepared.

I would be happy to send you
a detailed plan.

Do that. Thank you.

Excuse me,
Gentlemen, I have...

another ship to launch.

Your Majesty.

You haven't believed in this all along.

Someone had to speak on behalf
of the ordinary fighting men.

Brooke, could you ride with me?

Bastard.

- Why?
- Oh, don't look so shocked, Smuts.

I just saved the war.

Winston, please.
We must discuss this.

Quite right. We must start preparing
changes to the plan immediately.

- No, wait!
- No time to wait.

You can't just change everything
over the heads of our allies.

I can! I can!
Weakness doesn't impress Americans.

They respect strength.

There is a difference
between strength and arrogance.

Last time you British
tried to tell them what to do...

- You lost the colonies.
- You forget, Smuts.

I am half an American myself.
My dear, late mother

was native of Brooklyn,
New York! No less.

They don't care about your mother.

Good afternoon.

We must draw up new plans.

- Briggs, give me the admiral routine.
- Yes, sir.

We must set up a distraction in the Aegean.

Fanshawe, find out,
if General Alexander has reached Rome yet?

He must keep driving the Nazis back.

Miss Garrett,
get combined ops on the phone.

Someone there who knows about Norway.

We must amass all our resources.

This is our chance.

It is time to win this war.

Have you finished
being rude about my mother?

- Why are you doing this?
- D...

D-Day will be a disaster, Smuts.

Throwing all those men at one spot

on a well defended coast line,
teeming with Nazis.

They would be slaughtered.
That's not warfare.

It's butchering.
And I can't let them do that to our men.

- Winston...
- Ah, Brookie, I'm glad you are back.

We must talk about this
plan for Bordeaux.

- Eisenhower wants to see you.
- Good. Good.

I think of less formal wear, don't you?

- I tried.
- We all have.

You know that there comes a time when

even the greatest of the leaders
has gone as far as he can go.

Winston!

Attention!

Present arms!

Follow me please, gentlemen.

You will listen to Ike, won't you, Winston?

Yeah, we will listen to each other.

An exchange of views.

Brooke.

- Winston.
- Ike.

I'm glad to see you...

I hope we can talk about
the Bordeaux landing site plan.

Why don't you sit down?

That was hell of a speech today,
Winston, hell of a speech.

Much needed to be said.

- You should said some of it to me earlier.
- You said yourself you welcome criticism.

I do.
I welcome any thoughts on...

how to increase
Overlord's chances of success,

decrease causalities,
short supply lines...

But start talking about turning it
into a totally different operation,

in front of the men
who have spent months planning it

in front of the king of England, well...

That could be seen as unhelpful.

Unhelpful?

You must remember, Ike, we fought
the Germans and France before.

Even if you break through in Normandy,

even with the massive causalities,
civilian and military,

what will our boys face in France?

Another western front? Passchendaele?

The Somme? Trench warfare!

Winston, we have an air force.
We have self-propelled artillery,

armored divisions, the age of pushing
infantry to the front is over.

Operation Overlord is not the
only way of winning this war.

I should know, I have
seen a great many wars.

Sure.
Some of them in the last century.

- I beg your pardon?
- The war you are talking about

was 30 years ago.
I don't think you truly appreciate

how much things have moved on...

- What is this, Brookie?
- The thing is, Winston.

We don't have the capacity,
to carry out these other plans of yours.

Bordeaux, Italy or anything.

All I'm trying to do is win this war.

You see, I think you're trying to win
the last war.

With the same ideas
and tactics they had then.

They were lessons
we learned in the last war.

I don't want to make the same mistakes.

- Of course.
- And I shall not be stopped...

from speaking my mind.

You are, of course, the Prime Minister.

Which is exactly why we can't have you
trying to disrupt things.

I am imprecisely to disrupt it.

The invasion of France
is a deadly gamble

and must be stopped!

No, sir, you must be stopped!

Look, we're all tired.

You told me yourself, Winston.
You are no longer leaping out of your bed

first thing in the morning,
rarely up before noon.

Perhaps you should vouch your energies
to politics...

keeping the nation's morale,
that sort of thing.

What? Am I to be a clown?

Entertain the masses while you
send young men to the death?

Winston, we're taking care of it.

I have commissioned alternative plans
from the forces.

They should be here tomorrow, and then...

The forces are not carrying out your plans.

You counter mandate my orders?

And...

You both feel this?

You need to let us do the job.

Well, if you excuse me,
I must be on my way back to London.

- I'll come with you.
- I rather you didn't.

I have papers,
that I must look at in the car.

Winston.

Thank you for hearing what we had to say.

You are great asset to this country,

to this ally war effort.
We all know that.

Absolutely.

I am fine.

Very good, sir.

Left, right, left, right...

Look!

Left, right, left, right...

That would be all.
Yes, thank you.

Oh, Winston.

I'm going to the Russell fund meeting.

Margaret's holding a dinner afterwards.

Ike spoke to you, didn't he?

I ran this country and this
war for more than two years,

before these Americans
even turned up.

Yet, as if my experience,
my knowledge of warfare

accounted for nothing.

So Ike has a great deal of
experience in warfare.

Maybe you should listen to him.

Is everyone to overrule everything I say?

The king appointed me
Prime Minister of this country.

And it's my duty
to lead them through this war!

Don't you see you aren't the only one
capable of making decisions?

Is this about the war...

or is it about you and me?

- Do you want to be cuddled, Winston?
- I would settle for some respect.

Then don't complain,
when someone tells you the truth.

I'll be late.

Bastards.

Where is everybody?

I should think
they're still at breakfast, sir.

I'll be going to the coast today.
I shall need Smuts.

Miss Garrett, take a telegram.

Begins.

To Halifax, British Embassy,
Washington DC.

We celebrate success
of campaign in Italy.

Pushing Nazis back.
Americans must now see need to slice up hard

into soft underbelly of Europe.

The amphibious landings,
they plan for Normandy,

must not become a distraction.
I hope you impress this on

President when next you meet.

Leaving him in no doubt,
of how a pro fervent enthusiasm

for our American allies.
Ends.

Give me clop.

Clop! Clop!

Clop.

Clop.

What are you doing?

Working.

The word I used was pro fervent,

Miss Garrett, meaning intense.
According to your draft

I would have our ambassador impress
on President Roosevelt

my perverted enthusiasm...

for our American allies.

I'm terribly sorry.

He had rather a tiring day yesterday.

- And I don't take it's over.
- I'm fine.

Good to hear.

Oh, was that necessary?

I'm trying to run a country
and a war.

I can't afford mistakes.

- The car is ready, sir.
- Oh, thank you, Briggs.

- Why do you need your car?
- I am going inspect Monty's troops.

Has he invited you?

Clemmie, I may only have a day

before they launched this show.
The least I can do...

is to give some small words of
encouragement to those young men,

they are sending to die on the beaches.

And just remember, Win. They need
to respect their commanders.

- That isn't your shooting party.
- I am only going to speak.

That's rather what I am afraid of.

No, it looks to me,

that Monty has his numbers wrong.

For all these vehicles
only this many men?

- No, this is right.
- It's far too weak on infantry.

He knows what he is doing.

When you speak to his men,
to keep it short, will you?

Perhaps you could say
something generous about him?

I have had the good fortune

to speak in public
on a few occasions before, Smuts.

I should think,
I will manage this one.

- Good afternoon gentlemen.
- Monty.

Why don't we take a look around?

- What bloody hell is going on?
- He means to inspect your troops.

- They don't need inspecting.
- You tell him that.

- All right.
- No, wait.

- He needs to feel part of it.
- Oh, for Christ sake.

Most of the men have already shipped direct.

Look, can you let him see a few maps

then I will be able to get him away,
I promise.

- You are serious, aren't you?
- Please...

Prime Minister, if you care to join me.
I'll show you the plans.

Oh, very good.

The 21st Army Group is splitting to
landing points along the beaches.

Seventh corps to Utah Beach here,
Fifth at Omaha,

the 30th between Gold and Juno,
the first Juno and Sword.

How great is the whole distance of

this coast line, Utah to Sword?

About 50 miles.

We must attack along the wider front.

If you land them
in pocket such as this

the men will be surrounded
instantly by Germans.

They'll be we cut off, slaughtered.

We have the advantage of surprise.

What if they use poison gas
on our men?

- We would retaliate.
- What? Well they could fire it from planes,

strewn across villages.

We would bomb the hell out them
and they know it.

- Are you sure?
- I am so sure,

I am not even letting
my men carry gas masks.

Does he mean that?

Well, landing has been planned, Churchill.

- That's the end of the matter, I insist.
- And who are you to insist?

- Oh, for Christ sake, Winston.
- Gentlemen, please.

We have this chance!
Only one chance...

to drive the Nazis back
and liberate Paris!

You will have beaches
chocked with the bodies of

British and American youths!

We all know that
warfare has consequences!

Who cares when so many
human lives are at stake?

Have you not thought
of the cost if we go?

Have you not thought
of the cost if we don't?

This plan is for slaughter.

The Germans are in position.

They have reserves available.

There will be obstacles,
minefields, unknown hazards.

- Exactly.
- Then we must get the men sing red.

They must be completely on their toes
with absolute faith in the plan.

No one must undermine their confidence,
including you.

- What?
- I heard...

what you said in front of the king and
our allies.

I won't have you speaking like that
to the men going to those beaches.

I only want to boost up their courage!

And yet the last time you spoke it was
all doubt and treachery.

- Did he say treachery?
- I'm sure he didn't mean that.

That puffed up little shit!

The men won't follow him.

As you can see,

today we have some important visitors,

who can't wish you well.

We're going soon.

Very soon.

You are young all of you.

Many of you have
never been under fire.

And you don't know,
what you are about to go through.

Some of you are fearful.
That's natural.

But let's band together.

Look out for your brother in arms
and they will look out for you.

So let's all get in there.

Shoot straight.
Smash those bastards.

- Yes sir!
- Get the job done.

- And get back here.
- Let's do it, lads.

And I want you all
to remember one thing

as you land on those beaches.
What's your most important possession?

- It's your life.
- Yes! Yes, sir!

- And I am gonna save it for you.
- Yes! Yes!

- Oh, yeah! What are we gonna do?
- Get Nazis out! Yeah!

You and I together
will see this thing through!

Yes! Yes, sir!

Just keep it short and polite.

Whatever you do,
don't insult anyone.

I won't speak.

Won't?

- He said all that's need to be said.
- Good luck.

Well put, sir.

Thank you, sir.

I might take a strode
onto the beach.

Only a minute.

Winston, the car is ready!

He is a gremial dog, that Monty.

But I'd say one thing for him.
He's prepared to fight.

He will go with those men.
He will see action.

- Far too few of our leaders do.
- You did in the last war.

The Western Front.

After... after what happened
in the Turkish campaign.

But it isn't right,
it isn't right,

to set out the whole war
in an office in London.

Sending thousands of soldiers
into gunfire

- with the flourish of the pen.
- That is the job...

- of a political leader.
- But Monty gets to be a real leader.

I should be on those boats,
at the front with the men!

Get there, even before Monty does.

- I want to tell you a story.
- Must you?

Yes. It's about the end
of the Second Boer War,

in which we both saw action.

- Is there a point to this?
- 1902. We, Boer, set lost.

And it felt to me
to meet your lord Kitchener

make peace, the other commanders
were furious.

I was called a coward.
But I knew

that there was no glory for us
or for me in fighting on.

- We would only damage ourselves.
- Smuts.

Being a great leader
doesn't always mean seizing the glory.

Sometimes you have to accept

that you cannot lead everything
from the front.

You and I are like
two old lovebirds,

mooting together on a perch,
but still able to peck.

- I'm not pecking.
- You are pecking.

Eisenhower will listen to me.

He is a man of reason,
a man of integrity.

- A great man, I think.
- Winston, please.

Don't add yourself to his problems.

Well, I want to talk to him.

Where is General Eisenhower?

- Winston.
- Ike.

Apologies for the short notice.

I wanted to tell you
about my plans for D-Day.

- Your plans?
- I have arranged a berth myself.

- On HMS Belfast.
- This ship is sailing into battle.

I know you and I haven't agreed on
all points of this operation,

but surely we must agree on its importance.

The men need to feel,
that the nation is with them.

- So I shall go.
- Is this a joke?

- Not in a million.
- But for Christ sake, you can't go.

- Why not?
- Because if you get killed on one of my ships,

- it's my responsibility.
- The HMS Belfast is not one of your ships.

- She's one of the king's.
- Let's not split hairs.

I have accepted you
as the supreme commander...

of the British forces
involved in Overlord,

but in the Navy there are 4 of our men
to every one of yours.

- Christ, Winston...
- But you're an American general.

You may not regulate
the compliments of British ships.

I am not trying to regulate
your goddamn ships.

- I am just telling you not to go.
- I'm the Prime Minister

of the United Kingdom,
a Minister of Defense.

I shall go,
where ever I consider it necessary,

to the discharge of my duty!
You may not tie me down!

- Tie you down?
- I've seen this before,

in the first war. Big men,
fighting from the safety of their armchairs.

It's no good. Commanders must see
the battlefields for themselves.

You're not a god damn commander!

Is this about Montgomery? You just
trying to get on the beaches before him?

Of course not.
I didn't even thought of that.

- What if you get shot?
- I've been in wars before.

You are the sitting Prime Minister.
We can't risk your life.

You are asking a quarter of
a million young men to risk their's.

That's their job. It's not yours!

If you want me to submit, to this
unquestionably dangerous plan,

the least you can do is let me
lead my men into battle.

I will not sit back in London
with my paws crossed,

listening to them being mooned down
by German bullets on the wireless.

I shall go with them.
I shall share their fate.

Don't ask me host your
goddamn amateur theatrics!

There is a war on!

I am not asking you to host anything.

I shall be travelling to France
as the king's Prime Minister,

aboard the king's ship.

And what's more,
the king will be coming with me.

- What?
- His Majesty and I...

are in complete agreement,
we must be there...

to lead the men
and there is nothing you or Monty

can do about it.

I need to speak to number 10.
We're running out of time.

Winston, I've been looking
for you everywhere.

A man needs a moment of quite
contemplation,

before heading into battle.

You must come.

You have a visitor.

Good evening, Winston.

Your Majesty.

I was told,
I might find you here.

I had to...

come over.

It's about the plan

to go on the...

the ship.

We can't.

- I see.
- I know I agreed when...

When you telephoned earlier,
it was...

That was rash of me.

That...

That changes often

at this moment...

could be a serious matter
for the empire.

And Lilibet is...

is only 18.

Such a determined girl,

but still so very young.

So, no, I can't go.

And I don't need to say to you,

what you'd mean for the allied

cause if a chance...

a bomb should
remove you from the scene.

Sir, it's...
it's all arranged.

More over the risk is negligible.

Our presence would be an embarrassment,
Winston.

To those responsible...

for the fighting.

Whether we wanted it to be or not.

The right thing to do,
is what normally

falls to those at the top
on such occasions...

to remain at home.

And wait.

I served in the last war,
as you do.

Sailed a ship, flew a plane.

Bloody hell, that was exciting.

I know this will you seek.

Everyone thinks they are the
most powerful man in the world.

Until not allowed to do
anything at all.

My job is not to fight,

not to die.

I must exist.

And be gracious...

tonight.

Bring hope.

And that is my duty.

And it is yours too.

My duty.

Go easy on Ike and Monty.

You mustn't go to war, Winston.

And you must not go to France.

Well?

Sir, you are my king.

And I must do as you command.

The anxiety...

down the coming days would be

greatly increased for me if

in addition to everything else

well, was even the slightest risk,
of loosing you.

Yeah. I must be off.

They'll fight for sure
if I don't get back soon.

Good night, Winston.

Britain will thank you for it, Winston.

I believe all of us will.

Forever.

Majesty.

- Did Ike send him?
- Ike asked me.

I telephoned the palace.

Why, Clemmie? Why?

Couldn't you have talked to me?

When was the last time
that you actually listened to anybody?

When was the last time that you sat
and had a conversation with me?

Oh, I am sorry. I must have been distracted
by this little matter

- of trying to win a war.
- General Eisenhower sends his wife

long letters every weekend,
even though he's thousands of miles away.

Why don't you marry General Eisenhower?

Perhaps some younger men,
still in his prime

who everybody seems
to think is a real war hero.

Not some clapped up,
moth-eaten old lions,

whose teeth have been pulled,
so he's not to frighten the ladies.

Try acting like a hero, Winston.

And then maybe people will believe
that you are one again.

Why don't you just have me stabbed?

Please take your seats.

Gentlemen, we are here
at this unsocial hour,

to make the greatest decision
of our lives.

The armada of Overlord has began to sail.

This is the last moment,
the last crucial moment,

in which we must decide whether this
operation proceed today as planned.

Of course we must consider the
conditions,

wind, rain, tides.

So let's have report.
Troop Captain Stagg, the weather.

Gentlemen, the fears
my colleagues and I have had

with the weather over the next three
or four days have been confirmed.

The sea will be rough.
Winds up to four six.

A lot of low clouds.

We have had a report
from the West Irish station,

that their barometer
is falling rapidly there.

A further depression is heading our way.

I'm sorry, sir.
It's not a good picture.

General Montgomery,
what do you recommend?

We are there nearly out of time.

I think we must launch now.

- Air chief Marshall?
- I'm afraid I disagree.

These are terrible
conditions for air support.

I don't know how much
I can provide in this weather.

But it won't be much.

Admiral, what do you think?

It's dreadful. I think we must consider

how feasible it is
to land craft in a storm.

Damn it, Ike. My men
have already sailed.

Admiral, how long do we have,
before the ships will have gone too far,

to call them back?

Perhaps 30 minutes.

There could be another chance
tomorrow. Stagg?

Sir, there may be a short break
in the storms tomorrow morning.

But for the next 24 hours
it will be very hard to say.

Which risk do you prefer to take?

Call them back.

We meet back here tomorrow
at the same time.

Until then pray for good weather.

Ike, you call them back.

This hasn't been planned
with any alternatives.

It has been planned as a victory,
that's what it's going to be.

We are going down there,

we're gonna throw everything we have at it,
and make it a success.

Because frankly,
if we don't win this,

I don't know what kind of
world we will be left with.

I wouldn't disagree with you there.

- Thank you.
- Thank you sir.

Until tomorrow, Churchill.
You can't stop it.

No.

But the weather might.

Brooke is here to bring you up to date,

with everything that has been
happening on the coast.

The General Alexander's forces,

who yesterday took Rome from the Nazi,

shall today go into the greatest
battle of the war.

The Italian campaign could win it.

The Supreme allied command
is focusing its hope and attention now...

- on operation Overlord.
- There is very little I can do about Overlord.

I have to direct my efforts,
to winning the rest of this war.

I feel like a man chained to the
chariot of a lunatic.

If we can just make him feel part of it.

The political fellows
are worried about him too!

With the war ends this year, they're saying
he could be a liability as a leader.

Now I know you're fond of him, Smuts.

And so am I,
believe it or not,

but he's testing the limits.

- He's not the man he was.
- When you reach calm waters,

it is easy to forget the captain,
who steered you through the storm.

I haven't forgotten
how great he was in the Blitz.

- But that was four years ago.
- He's still a great man.

End. Bloody fool.
You are all bloody fools.

This is single spaced!
Why is it single spaced?

I'm sorry sir.
Someone must have reset the typewriter.

Well, it must be double spaced.

Why do you waste my time?
You stupid girl!

- I'm sorry, I didn't know.
- Do you realize what I have to do?

I must look after the troops,
keep them safe!

Food, shelter, equipment.
All must be organized!

If I needed to supply people, they will
probably send dental chairs instead of bayonets.

I must focus.
You must focus.

Winston?

Would you come with me
for a moment please?

A great man.

I cannot work if I am surrounded
by such incompetence.

I'll show Brooke and Monty,
what it takes to be a real general.

I will show them,
how great men win their wars.

Stop it! Just stop it!

Brooke and Eisenhower and
Monty are fighting this war...

and you just keep getting in their way.

- I am Prime Minister of this country!
- Exactly.

- And Minister of Defense!
- Don't pull rank...

makes you seem small.

And you don't need any more of that.

Will you stop telling me what to do?

I beg your pardon?

Perhaps it's time
I took some rest.

I would say so.

Dear God.

Oh, dear...

Please, please, please,
let it rain tomorrow.

Let it pour.

Let the heavens open
and a deluge burst for

such as never have been seen
in the English channel.

Let lightening flash.

Let thunder crash and roll
and bellow.

Let winds tear up the beaches

and spin the sand into storms.

Let the sea churns into peaks and troughs
and tidal waves.

Call spirits from the vastly deep.

Please.

Make them call it off

and spare the lives of all those fine
young men on those ships.

Please.

Do not let it happen again.

Amen.

Amen.

Thank you for coming again.
Take your seats.

The weather, please.

Yesterday we predicted that there would
be a short break in the storms this morning.

As of 0400 that holds good.

The cloud cover
2,000 feet stands at 3 tenths,

the wind is between
force three and force four.

You would have a big celebration
if that forecast is accurate.

These conditions could actually work
against the Germans.

They won't be able to get their
reconnaissance planes up at all.

Can the navy gunners
spot in this visibility?

- Yes.
- Monty?

The army is ready.

It's a hell of a risk.

But it's the best possible gamble.

The question is how long can you

leave something like this
hanging out there on a limb?

Okay, let's go.

Troop Captain Stagg,
photograph if you please.

Thank you.

Ike.

You have said that this war
is not like the last war.

But this operation...

very much is.

Men will die tomorrow.

Do not let a single one of them
die in vain.

Godspeed!

They'll go in.

- Holy shit!
- Winston!

- I can't obey this.
- For goodness sake.

I can't.

- I will not tolerate this from you.
- I can't lead this.

- It's murder!
- Sit down.

I will not be able to live the rest
of my life with this on my conscience.

You have no choice.

Do you hear me?

I will not be able to live
the rest of my life...

Is that a threat?

By the time we wake tomorrow,

20,000 young men
may be dead.

You're drunk.

This is the only thing,
that brings me peace.

Well, it's not working.
You should be ashamed of yourself.

Yes, could you send the maid up
to the breakfast room, please?

There has been an accident.

No, everyone is fine.
Just a broken plate.

Thank you. Yes...

And could you tell Field Marshall Smuts,
I would like to see him. Thank you.

How is he?

Come on.

Winston?

Winston?

The ships are gathering in the channel.

They set sail at 1700 hours.

I thought I could help you,
prepare your speeches for tomorrow.

- This has happened before?
- A few times.

He gets very low and then he just sticks.

And anything you try to say to cheer him up
just seems to make matters worse.

- Have you called for his doctor?
- His doctor usually just sends him

to the country for a couple of weeks.

- He has to address the nation tomorrow.
- I know.

Either to tell them that
we're winning the war

or that we have just killed
thousands of people needlessly.

Oh, dear.

Oh, dear. Oh, dear.

- Are you all right?
- Yes of course.

It must be hard for you too.

I wish he would notice that.

Anyway, we must just do our best I suppose.

Why don't you let me talk to him.

I thought, if we came at this together,

we could all help write
your speech for tomorrow.

It's a very important speech, Winston.
Perhaps if you focus on that,

you will be able to summon the energy.

How shall we begin, Miss Garrett?

This is the Prime Minister.

Overnight, the combined allied forces

of air, sea and land began
a full assault

on the German positions
on the north coast of France.

This is the beginning of the
greatest operation of war.

It will push the Nazis back
and liberate France.

Thousands of brave young men
have landed from a fleet of ships.

They have secured the beaches and
pushed the German lines back.

- You don't know that.
- What?

It's all too familiar, Smuts.

I've seen this before.

Gallipoli, 1915.

Massive amphibious landing.

A head on assault against
the pervly entrenched army.

We had great plans,
for the first Kitchener and I.

- This isn't 1915!
- But the operation was cut back,

by the petty minded little
snipping of the commandos.

Loose a dozen ships here.
Don't send extra divisions.

They needn't have
so many high explosives.

I tried to stop it.
Oh, God knows I tried.

It was meant...

It was meant to be...

a little job.

We may as well have sent those men
naked on to those beaches.

Warfare has moved on.
Your lessons have been learnt.

A quarter of a million men were
cut down at Gallipoli.

The empire blamed me.
I was its champion.

But no one blames me more fiercely
than I blame myself.

If that had succeeded,
you would have been celebrated as a hero.

But it failed!

I sent men to die!
Hundreds, thousands of them!

Their blood soaks my hands.

The men do their duty
and we do ours.

- We must live with the guilt.
- But we live...

and still the commanders have not learned.

For they do not care to learn.

They keep away from the battlefield
and do not see the cost.

Eye shot out by sniper bullets.

Legs blown up by mines.
Blood on the sea foam.

That's what the men see.
That's what they face.

Half of those men on those ships today
will be rotting corpses by tomorrow.

That's enough!

My fiancé is on one
of those ships.

I think he is.
He can't tell me exactly.

What's his rank?

He is a midshipman.

On a destroyer.

Arthur...
Arthur Clayton.

How did you meet?

We grew up together
in Portsmouth.

He says that he'll take care
of me and my mother.

My father was in the first war.

That's still with him.
He's not much good work.

Arthur says when he returns
we'll get a cottage by the sea.

Fill it with children,
grow roses around the door.

I want to believe that I won't end up
like my mother and her sisters.

With all their men dead,
or maimed, or shell shocked.

I want to believe,
that he will just be alright.

That he'll just be alright.

I don't want to hear,
that the man I love,

may in a few hours be dead.

And I don't want to hear it from you.

I thought that you were
the bravest man in England.

I'm sorry.
I have no right.

No.

You have every right.

Come. Sit down.

Thank you.

I must get dressed.

I need your help.

What are you talking about?

Duty.

Are you going?

I can't, can I?

I know I haven't been fully
companion to you

for some while.

This war requires the whole of me.

And it's no easy matter,
being a leader.

It's not that easy,
being married to one either.

I expected to stand behind you
and prop you up whenever you required

with good humor and
unfailing kindness.

I sometimes wish,
I could live my own life.

Would you do that?

I've had to learn,
to live around your edges.

I often wondered,

if there would be another man.

- Would you care if there were?
- Desperately.

I haven't made you
happy, have I?

You have.

At times you really have.

But now...

Win, I don't know how to help you

if you don't understand,
what it is you must to do.

We shouldn't keep them waiting.

No. No, I'll go ahead.

- Briggs.
- Sir.

Did you get any word back
from the admiralty?

Yes, sir. Midshipman Arthur Clayton is
on one of the craft heading for Juno beach.

They are at the first wave.

Expecting a lot of German fire, sir.
I'm sorry.

- Thank you, Briggs.
- Sir.

They will be well on their way by now.

So many young men.

Same as in the last war.
Barely more than boys.

They have grown up with this war.

They are brave.

Too young to know how to be afraid.

What will you say tomorrow?

I don't know.
Depends on the news.

No, it doesn't.

Whatever happens tonight,
you must give them hope.

Even if 20,000 men are dead,
you can't lead their wives and mothers

and children thinking,
they have died for no reason.

You must stand with them,
make their sacrifice have a purpose.

Make them believe that by God,
they will win this war.

And I will do it with them.

For that is my duty.

Isn't it?

Would you mind talking to the
woman secretary without me?

I must write that speech.

Clem?

Fighting is what I have always done.

It's the core of who I am.

If I do this,
if I make this speech,

I won't be fighting any more.

No, you won't.

Who will I be,

when it's all over?

If we win or
it ends in disaster?

What will I be,
if I'm no longer fighting?

You will always be the man,
who let us through this.

Miss Garrett!

Sir.

Very good, Miss Garrett.
Thank you.

Winston, news has just come through.

- The landings?
- No, London.

We think the Luftwaffe
will strike the new V-rockets.

We should prepare the air aid shelter.

Do we have the planes
to shoot them down?

We will try,
but these rockets have no pilots.

Incredibly fast.

If Hitler thinks,
he can break our spirit like this,

he is wrong. Miss Garrett,

I shall need another draft of that speech.

Oh, and by the way...

Thank you, Smuts.

I have received this report on
Midshipman Arthur Clayton.

He landed with the first wave.
They took heavy fire,

but he himself fought with great
courage and saw it through.

He is safe and well.

Oh, heavens.

Oh, and if I may...

He sends you his love.

Thank you so very much,
Mr. Churchill.

Thank you, Miss Garrett.

This is the Prime Minister speaking.

First the news from the
great operation in France.

This magnificent effort of co-ordinated
air, land and sea...

has brought the allied forces together
to push the Nazis back

and begin the liberation of France.

The passage of the sea
has been made with far less loss

than we apprehended.
The superior bombardment

of our ships and planes
quickly reduced the German fire.

General Eisenhower's courage
is equal to all that must be done.

Everything is ready,
as it has never been ready before,

and we are awake
to the tips of our fingers.

It's a good line.

Last night the dangers appeared very great.

This morning we have overcome them.

This great war against
Nazi domination

is fought by ordinary people,

the soldiers, sailors and
airmen in the field,

and also those at home.

We defy Hitler with our endurance

and our strength of character
and our refusal,

to give in to tyranny, and oppression,

and the darkest evils in history.

This is not a war for glory.
It is a war for freedom.

The Germans will strike back.

We do not know,
where they will hit.

There new flying bombs
have no pilots.

Destruction,
sent forth in a soulless machine.

This is a weapon of cowards,

and cowards cannot win.

We must meet it with valor,
as our soldiers do.

As those brave men fight
on the beaches,

we on the home front
must fight on too.

So that when they return,
covered in glory,

we may share their honor.

Hitler is again,
trying to menace us with fire.

Four years ago he thought he could
break us with the Blitz.

He was wrong.
He is wrong again now.

For we do not melt in fire.

We are tampered by fire,
like steel,

and emerge, strong, and
ready to fight.

Hitler has started a fire,

which must burn him out of Europe.

Our troops will fight on...

and the allies will fight on.

And I shall fight on,

until we are free.

We shall never surrender.

And I shall never surrender.

Oh, how I wish this was scotch.

Well.

- Were you listening to the broadcast?
- Of course.

You were wonderful.

I was worried about you yesterday.

You did a really wonderful thing,

turn yourself around, recovering.

- I am not sure I've recovered.
- Impression was good enough.

It never quite goes away.

Sometimes the color drains from the
picture and it's all gray and dull.

And I can't force it to change back.

How is it looking now?

A mixture.

But I must live with that.

You know, I think I might go to
Chartwell this weekend,

and spend some time in the country.

- Do a spot of painting.
- That is a very fine idea.

There is a way the sun
hits the lake in the afternoon,

under the willows.

Might make for a harmonious view.

- In color?
- Possible...

- And what about the war?
- Oh, I think...

Eisenhower and Monty have that
well under control, don't you?

I would understand if you left me.

I would leave me, if I could.

I don't want you to live around my edges.

But perhaps we should

just let each other in.

- But you mustn't keep fighting.
- I have given up fighting.

Do you really mean that?

The most important thing in a war,
when you think of it,

is for people to feel truly unified.

Inspired, hopeful.

Maybe I'll write another speech.

I think I'll walk on for a while.

Will you be alright?

I'll manage.

Godspeed.