Winston Churchill: In the Darkest Hour
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- We imagine Winston Churchill with his signature cane, drinking scotch whiskey, and puffing on a Cuban cigar. His mouth is downturned, and his voice is gruff and his words pointed. This is the image Hollywood portrays but it is a mere caricature of the flesh and blood version. Who was Winston Churchill? In Britain’s “darkest hour,” Churchill led his country from the brink of Nazi conquest by forging an alliance with the U.S. and Russia. He had many critics, and made mistakes on a grand scale. Yet, above it all, possessed an unwavering belief in his own power. To his beloved country he offered his “blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
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We attributed the wrong author/writer to this video. This was written by Crystal Sullivan.
How do I get her autograph?
Churchill was responsible for death of millions of Indians and called Indians as dogs. He might be a great leader but "his hand bear the blood of millions of Indians." This was not mentioned in the video
Mr Maverick The underlying causes of the famine include inefficient agricultural practices, over-population, and de-peasantisation through debt bondage and land grabbing. how was a man fighting a war of survival responsible for people breeding themselves into starvation?
Biographics my granddad whom was the danish ambassador in london was the person who brought churchill's elephants order back to copenhagen shortly after he passed PS the elephants order in Denmark is the highest order you can get and almost only the royals own them PPS you the danish government requires you to give back your orders after you pass away. FuN sTorIE RIIiiiiiGht
Can u do one on Suleiman the magnificent ( the Lawgiver ) ? please??
Supposedly Churchill was seated at a dinner next to Lady Astor who disliked him. She said “If you were my husband I’d poison your tea.”
“Madame," Churchill responded, "if I were your husband I’d drink it.”
Yoooooooooooooooo! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😅😅😅😁😁😄😄☺️
Well said...RIP sir
I also heard that she told him that he "drank to much", he replied "and you are ugly, but i will be sober in the morning"
Savage!!!!
Imagine being 14 when Jack The Ripper killed his victims in london and living up to hear The Beatles
jack the ripper lived in the late victorian British island
around 60 years apart from the beatles
it's not long ago
😂😂😂
@@gutsjoestar7450 70* and churchill was already 14 so it's still interesting for me.
Watched a video of an old man on an American tv show from the 50s who was the last living witness to the assassination of President Lincoln which I found astounding
While smoking cigars and drinking whisky
"You have enemies? Good! That means you've stood up for something in your life." -Sir Winston Churchill
#KeepCalmAndCarryOn!
That quote is Victor Hugo. SOE supremo Colin Gubbins coined the "Keep Calm" phrase. Absolutely terrifies me to think you probably paid to be educated.
Lol ...he killed millions of my ancestors.. Through starvation(The Great Bengal Famine).
Tirthankar Pandit nobody cares
@@smokedoofman4763 i know but i will not let u forget..may god bless you and get well soon
@@tirthankarpandit7009 yeah he was kind of a racist asshole when you look back on it, but he was a strong leader and a major player in taking out the Nazis.
Churchill jumping off a bridge and taking the injury instead of surrendering to defeat is so true of his character
Yea that sounds like him so much
my favorite quote from Churchill:
“I cannot live without champagne. In Victory I deserve it, in defeat I need it”.
My kind of person....
Hear ! Hear !
And to ignore the harsh reality of Bengal famine
@@tuskular yes at that time french were ruling india
@@tuskular then why he shifted supplies of food grains to army even though there was surplus food for army and bengal famine was the intention of britishers your nation hasn't achieved anything on its own its just you looted india and you became superpower even today British museum is full of stolen indian arts!
14:17 "...Holland, Belgium, and the Netherlands." Hitler invaded the Netherlands so hard that he invaded them twice
Yeah and he tried to invade England and the UK.🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣
@@PetriDishB I think you missed the joke. Maybe you should study history before you comment. Like I did, I am a history teacher. An awfull lot of Brits got killed at Dunkirk and further up the coast. Trying to draw German fire of the main group. If Churchill hadn't had the brilliant idea to send the fleet of pleasure vessels a lot more Brits would have been killed. Hitler definitly planned to invade England the RAF stopped him.
@@PetriDishB "Never wanted to". Completely wrong. Hitler very much wanted to conquer the British Isles and force them to sue for peace allowing a one front war against the USSR. He build invasion craft and the Luftwaffe's' job was to gain air supremacy to allow for the invasion.
@@PetriDishB ever heard of the battle of Britain?
VIC RATTLEHEAD \,,/
My favourite Churchill quote. The second-worst thing in the history of Russia was the birth of Lenin. The worst thing in her history was the death of Lenin.
Churchill will be cry this
@Chiranth Anand It's not contradictory. He means that while Lenin and his actions were pretty bad, him dying made everything worse because his successor (Stalin) was allowed into power.
@@sirdiesalot2975 wouldn’t that mean starlin being born was worst
@@thelegendthemyththeman4772 no because stalin wasnt the major man behind the revolution... don't get me wrong he was also important but lenin and trotsky were the much bigger driving force behind the revolution
so thus no lenin = no stalin
which in the end makes the Statement valid again
"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
_"I never ‘worry’ about action, but only about inaction."_
-Winston Churchill
*Laughs in Calvin Coolidge*
“We proceeded systematically, village by village, and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the great shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.” - Churchill on how the British carried on in Afghanistan, and he was only too happy to be part of it.
@@riohenry1455 yeah, we get it. Stfu.
Yeah actions that killed millions..
@@riohenry1455 it was propaganda written by him. Theres a thing called war propaganda
Also, in spite of the mild speech impediment, he was a brilliant speaker and a rapier wit. One of my favorite quotes of his, in reference to his support of Stalin against the Nazis despite his being a fervent anticommunist: "If Hitler invaded Hell, I would at least make favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons".
Churchill was bribed to destroy Europe and the Bitish Empire by Strakosch.
@@marksneddon Yes , he was a staunch anti-communist , how does that in any way imply regret for doing everything in his power to defeat the Nazis ? what are you talking about ?
also honestly a good comparison, and makes it pretty obvious just how much he hated Stalin, Hitler was the greater threat at that point and he knew it
17:37 Being a teenager myself, my brain genuinely hurts after hearing that. I have no idea how people thought that my boi Winston Churchill was a fictional character, i'm outraged!
He means his achievements were so big it didnt fit well in our reality. Or something like that.
Those were the ones who didn’t pay attention in history class.
That 1/5 must have been the youth of London
Bloody bastards forgot about old Winston. After being their prime minister! Oh well we shall hope they will be wiser in our future
Worry not. Less than a score of years is but the beginning of learning, of which there is more and more for each succeeding generation to do. Those same 'illiterates' have much they could teach me I'm sure and I have more than three score to my credit.
But you missed one of his best quotes "I may be drunk but you are ugly I will be sober in the morning, you will still be ugly" Winston Churchill
His final words " I'm bored with it all".
Truly an amazing life.
He said I'm tired with it all
truly he lived, i suppose that's the line we all ultimately strive for in our lives.
He's a hypocrite
@@UserHandle454 --?
@@UserHandle454 everyone is
My favorite quote from churchill is "when you're going through hell go straight through it".
He was truly fearless and one of a kind
World War 2 was probably the best thing that could’ve happened to Churchill, if it wasn’t for WW2 his legacy probably would have been his botching of the Gallipoli Campaign.
Inquisitor Thomas not just Gallipoli. But he was the right man at the right time when it came to ww2.
Or... did his eminence from the war years simply highlight a chapter in history that juxtaposes his later success? If not for WW2, perhaps the Churchill/Gallipoli connection would only be the stuff of trivia buffs and historic scholars and the name Churchill would be an historic obscurity.
Not many military leaders achieve fame for high-profile blunders. Some may even argue that Gallipoli wasn't necessarily a tactical blunder if you consider it was a huge risk made in desperation to alleviate the gridlock of the western front. But there is certainly no arguing that where it was a monumental botch, was that of an Empire's arrogance in its cost in human life.
And sending the Black and Tans to Ireland.
ww2 galipolli ????? Try and get your facts right try ww1idiot
He was out classed by Ataturk and the Turkish people at Galipoli. Only difference is, we are taught about Churchill but never Ataturk
Learning about Churchill’s personal life just made me admire him a lot more. I would’ve never thought that under the tough man there was a sweet loving father and husband who had such an emotionally rough childhood.
well, he missed the part where churchill coordinated an air assault on a US naval base in hawaii. december 7, 1941 if youre having trouble finding it
it didn't sound that tough to me.
@@bigploppa154 what 😂
@@HistoryMadeSimple90 Churchill was the greatest axis general ever. let Coventry fall, let Pearl Harbor get bombed, let Singapore fall, and starved millions of Indians. nevermind the amount of Indian and Australian soldiers he had killed
A poll was done of the British people a while back, asking who was the greatest Briton that ever lived. The vote was almost unanimously in favor of Winston Churchill.
There was a show about the most important person from the 19c and Alan Turing won
Gaming General well that’s not right considering Turing was born in the 20th century
Luke S my mistake 20c
Cos we all brain washed in school..Churchill was elitist evil through n through..
@marty rac Yes we should blame a man who lived seventy years ago for things that happened in the past fifteen years makes sense.
My favourite Churchill quote comes from Yalta. "Comrade Stalins foreign policy is based on peace." Then to Roosevelt out of the interpreters earshot. "A piece of Poland, a piece of Hungary, a piece of Bulgaria."
“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing, after they’ve tried everything else.”
-my favorite quote
topography isn't mapmaking, topography is the study of the terrain of an area, mapmaking is cartography
*me,an idiot* what
And what is topography used for? Making maps. 😂
He essentially attempted suicide to avoid losing a kids game
I wouldn't say suicide - he probably wasn't aiming to kill himself - he just cared more about winning than self preservation, seems.
Because Churchill would NEVER SURRENDER!
Losing was never an option
It's what he calls a pro-gamer move.
I was wondering when you'd get around to Churchill. He was such a major figure in 20th century history you couldn't avoid covering him at some point. The second World War could have turned out very differently without him as the leader of Britain at that point in history. Great videos on this channel. XD
No it couldn't.
Dsdcain He caused ww2 ye dunmy.
Mark Harrison lmao care to explain or are you pulling a toddler?
The Axis did not have the resources or the economic/industrial/military capacities to carry out a long war against the British Empire.
Had the British not allied with the Russians (Churchill's decision) Nazi Germany may have taken the caucuses complete with the natural resources they needed...
This is my new favorite channel. No doubt I'll put off precious sleep clicking on more videos. You're a brilliant man, Simon. I can't commend you enough for your fascinating work. Thank you!
I just found him it's amazing videos
I'm American, and this brought a legitimate tear to my eye. Truely, a great man. We could only be so lucky to see more like him in the future.
Ah yes, the great man who caused the Bengal famine which killed up to 3 million people.
@@avinashvaluveri3903 he drew food away from a colony to feed his own country, you'd do the same
@@gearyt2355 ok what about the hit squads and the open racism?
@@ivoxvxi7482 WHAT! A MAN BORN IN THE MID TO LATE 1800'S WAS A RACIST! HOW COULD THIS BE?
@@ivoxvxi7482 also the hit squads were a smart military division that literally all countries, even the less developed ones, took advantage of
Where would the UK or the USA without him? It shows us that even in our imperfections we can do great things.
Likely England would have come under Nazi control, reinstalled Edward as king and attempted to assert control over the commonwealth. The USA would in turn quite likely have invaded Canada to prevent having an enemy at their doorstep. The cold war would have been with a german occupied Europe rather than Stalin’s Russia. Who knows what Europe would look like today, but it’s possible the North America would be a single unified country.
The whole world in fact. Especially Europe
@MartyrX you seem to have forgotten the part of history where his predecessor was ready to capitulate
@MartyrX that’s just ridiculous
@@trevorj79 That was genuinely the US plan, to invade Canada in the event of Germany defeating Britain.
I got teary when Simon talked about his funeral. You earned it Churchill.
Sure but also did you know that Churchill killed millions of Indians and had racist thoughts?😊
One of his great hobbies was also hating Indians....
He may have not been the hero they wanted at the time but he's the hero we need. May Churchill never be forgotten.
1:00 - Chapter 1 - Formative years
4:15 - Chapter 2 - Military service & war correspondent
7:20 - Chapter 3 - Early years in parliament
10:15 - Chapter 4 - Personal life
13:05 - Chapter 5 - The darkest hour
16:20 - Chapter 6 - The end of an era
Winston Churchill: the queens most loyal knight.
King’s* King George VI was ruling when Churchill became prime minister
@@ThatSherbieGuy he also was PM between 1950-1955 and Queen Elizabeth became queen in 1952
As always, a very interesting and informative video. Thank you for sharing your amazing video
I love these bio videos, I only just discovered and see that I have a lot of good viewing ahead of me. Thank you for making these.
I never knew about Churchill as a person. Such a warrior. Always to be free. Thank you so much
Female Cabinet member to Churchill: Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your Coffee.
Churchill: Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it!
It is also, sadly, fictional (see Andrew Robert's biography Walking With Destiny). He DID, however, utter the nearly as delicious retort, when being accused of being drunk "and what's more, disgustingly drunk" by Labor MP Bessie Braddock in 1946 (he was not drunk; he was simply very tired. WSC drank alcohol almost continually, but it was almost always very watered-down whiskey and soda), "Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and what's more, you're disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober, and you will still be disgustingly ugly".
Ha that’s funny
Finally, been waiting for Churchill
This is probably my favorite episode so far and I have been a subscriber since day one. Even my husband knows who I am talking about when we cruise TH-cam in the evening and I say that I want to watch Simon! 😎❄️💜💙💋
Well done Simon and company! Thank you so much for this Biographic on one of my favorite historical figures. Best,
Always a favorite WW2 character! Great video, Simon!
I very much enjoy all Biographic videos, but I especially enjoyed the one about Winston Churchill.
I love this channel, it is illuminating, and incisive condensed information that helps one to understand the social environment that we have grown up in-- and human behavior in all of its variations! Kudos!!
I love your channel.... every time it takes me to an incredibly adventurous voyage. Thanks.
In my eyes he’s a depiction of every soul’s fight within itself to conquer itself and launch forward into the world achieving greatness. To call him one of the greatest men to have ever lived is an understatement. Rest In Peace lion, your name will forever inspire.
he's the unofficial mass murderer of Bengal, greatest man my ass
Churchill was a traitor to the Empire, very particularly to Australia when he ordered the Commonwealth to take no part in Australia’s war against Japan. It’s little wonder that in the occupation of Japan and the Korean War that the Americans would only accept the British if they were under Australian command, for they well understood the difference between loyalty and treachery.
One of the better biographical videos to date
best biographics yet! keep em coming!
Thanks Simon - loved this one - but really love all the great work you do.
One of the most underrated understood figure of history and in his life who reshaped and is still reshaping the destinies of generations who came after him and the ones who have come after his them.
Simon I love your videos! great work!
Thank you Simon, this video gave me chills.
Great video ! Thank you for posting it.
Fantastic Video Simon & team. Great writing by Crystal. With impeccable narration by Simon. Winston is rightly a legend us born Brits should be very proud of.
Winston Churchill's funeral was basically started by British Railways, who used a Bulleid 4-6-2 Pacific numbered 34051 of the Battle of Britain class named "Winston Churchill", (go figure). The engine named after Churchill and the car his coffin was carried in is preserved by the National Railway Museum of York.
That was beautifully done
Churchill's mother was a US citizen therefore making him a US Citizen by blood; he had dual citizenship although it might not have been recognized at the time.
Couldn't that mean he could become a president if he somehow wanted to?
Damn,that's pretty cool.
@@bones3439 no
@@presence9745 how so
@@bones3439 You have to born in the U.S. c'mon you know that😔
@@presence9745 Tell that To Ted Cruz!
Great job Simon
Awesome job on this one! I totally forgot about everything else. I was completely emersed in this story.
Roosevelt and Churchill: the bromance all other bromances try to be
Iv been a massive fan of all your videos but this was head and shoulders above everything else. It as presented with fact and humour and I feel really caught the essence of Winston. Amazing effort Simon
Well done. Please keep them coming. Cheers!
Just finished reading Francois Kersaudy's bio on Churchill, one finds themselves finding it hard to believe it's not a fiction adventure book.
ALSO.
EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT VIDEO. Many fail to illustrate the whole story of this man, yet this video manages to condensate it into something illustrating enough to inform and interesting enough to look further into matters.
"History is written by winners. And winners lie"
You rather live under the nazis
@@thomasmatthewharris1980 you live under the lie . Bekuf insaan
Great content !
Thank you for this, one of my favourites. 😊
This was a really really good one Simon! Thank you!
Yes!!! I love this channel, and one of my favorite men to study is Churchill! Thanks for making this!
Lenny Fritz only if you knew about bengal famine
@@cardcode8345 he was crazy
@@cardcode8345 he didn’t the Japanese did
Unbelievably good video, loved it
Very Nice, Brilliant,Informative
Really enjoyed this! I hope his movie is accurate. Thank you.
hitler invaded holland, belgium and the Netherlands....uuuhhmm...holland is a part of the netherlands. its one of its 12 provincines. i love the video's.
TomEnGames probably meant Luxembourg
The pronunciation of Gallipoli was also...interesting.
It's north Holland and south Holland not just holland
Holland is another name for the Netherlands, we do have indeed two (of our 12 provinces) called North-Holland (Amsterdam, Haarlem, Alkmaar etc.) and South-Holland (Rotterdam, Den Haag, Leiden, etc).
Scheer hem
Thank you again for the in-depth research and very paltable presentation 👍 Your pacing is always easy to listen to and watch. I do hope that some if your various channels and programs are used by educators as supplemental material 🙏
You got some good stuff here, Simon. I enjoy all your vids.
In the southern Welsh valleys, he's best remembered for the "let them eat lead" quote. A monster.
Orson Welles once said that when trying to secure funding from a wealthy patron for a film he stayed at the same resort as Churchill. Churchill and Welles had met previously and Churchill raised his glass when Orson walked by - the patron was so impressed he immediately bankrolled the film. When Orson later thanked Churchill and passed through the dining hall the next morning with the patron Churchill stood up and bowed to Welles - the patron nearly passed out. Great testimony to Churchill’s sense of humour I wanted to share.
The was one of Orson Welles embellished stories!
Beautifully presented. Loves your videos. Is 'Today I Found Out' still there?
i love these :) and finally WC!
Churchill really was larger than life itself. I wish the U.K. had a prime minister like him now.
It would be a total disaster in just about every way. Feel free to vote for the EDL next election though.
He would be an excellent statesman and a boon to Britain in every way. There is no politician anywhere in the world who is anywhere near his quality today. The best PM you've had since him was Margaret Thatcher, and since the Iron Lady, you've had...nobody worth mentioning. At least that lunatic Corbyn isn't PM. May isn't great by any means, but considering the alternative...
I don't see anything wrong with that, except possibly that nowadays poison gas isn't considered acceptable. As for the rest, yeah, what he said about American Indians and Australian aboriginals is pretty much dead on. The fact that he said it in terms that aren't PC doesn't make it any less true. What he says about the Irish is also absolutely correct. Ireland has been under the British Crown since Henry II. The refusal of the Irish to behave in a civilized manner and admit that they're British has been one of the worst problems in the Western World. As for his opinions on Indians, so what? The fact remains he was arguably the greatest man of the 20th century, whatever your foolish ethnic quibbles about him.
First, I'm American. Second, you have been British since the 12th century, your language is English, Gaelic is a dead language that has been artificially preserved for some reason or other, you are ethnically and culturally virtually identical (except for the part where the British can behave themselves and manage not to riot or bomb people for having slightly different religious beliefs). So Most of Ireland didn't go along with the reformation. So what? The Scots admit they're British, and they're Presbyterians. You can be Catholic and British just as easily as you can be Presbyterian and British, there's no Guy Fawkes running around or whatever nonsense from centuries ago. Pretending that Ireland is some separate country is ridiculous, and the British never should have given in to the IRA terrorist thugs.
OH HELL NO. we indians aren't gonna be filled with starving famines again.
Thank you I really enjoyed this video
thanks for videoss
The people tearing his statue down now would have bent over for the Nazis.
It's still there...
They failed to tear it down because ex royal marines showed up to protect it
They wouldn’t have been alive to bend over for the Nazis……
They should be kissing the feet of Churchill’s statue for that.
Love these videos. Why do you have so many drones though?!
Wait, what? 😂
@@theparadigm8149 , on the left side of the screen, hanging on the wall are drone helicopters and the controls for them. Maybe as someone else pointed out, in his spare time he bombs Iraq, who knows.
@@ndogg20 LOL! 😆
Maybe he does use them for bombings!
Growing up in South Africa, I had no idea he had ever been here. In 2016, I was driving between my current town and my home town - a route I had driven often since childhood. I had recently started geocaching and there was one near the road, so I decided to stop. I was absolutely flabbergasted to find that it was at the site where Winston Churchill had been captured! (There's a monument to the soldiers who died in the attack.) I couldn't believe that I had driven past this piece of railway so many times in my life, not knowing that a big historical event happened right there. It just makes me wonder how many other cool things I have missed in my travels. Thanks for the interesting video!
Awesome stuff man!
Bully! Hooray! Precise and informative...I love *Biographics*.
“hitler invaded holland, belgium, and the netherlands.”
jokes aside though, great episode!
@nikesback holland is another word people (incorrectly) use to describe the netherlands, so what he basically said was “the netherlands, belgium and the netherlands”. i think he meant to say “luxembourg, belgium and the netherlands”.
Could not have done my essay without this, thanks!
Another excellent bio ..congratulations ..
Very few people in history I admire as much as I admire Winston Churchill
I like how the Carol of the Bells was playing in the background in the beginning. Very nice
Really good video. And this guy tells a good story. I like his presentation of the material.
Thank you 🙏 Simon
Thank you 🙏 Biographic
Lady Nancy Astor once said to Churchill “ if you were my husband I would poison your tea” Churchill replied “if I was your husband I’d drink it”
Thank you sir for this wonderful video... I have a small request can you do one on nukita khurchev
Man I love these, i learn so much.
excellent short video
Great video! One of the people I most admire. Churchill was a great man.
Only to racists.
@@markharrison2544 my nan likes Churchill and she voted for aboriginals to become citizens so she is not racist
@@DatsunBloke7357 What were white people doing in Australia in the first place?
Frequency illusion; I was just thinking about Churchill and this film!
These videos are fantastic, and you are a fantastic historian, bravo
Well done
A great video, but very obviously done by someone who admires Churchill. No mention of some of the darkest parts of history in which he played a role, the Bengal famine, the Algiers incident, etc... still, good stuff. Keep up the great work.
Christopher Griffin leaving out his crimes is irresponsible.
Between the Panels dude chill my guy
@@dsodragon8152 he has a point though. Why hasn't ghandi died then?
@@Wingo537 he was busy whooping the white asses of the idiots in London. For one old man he really did scare all pale white buttocks in the Buckingham palace.
@@kakyoin9688 I don't think he would have traveled 5000km south just to fight with Indians.
Very touching one Simon good job dude
This was a really good treatment of Churchill. Well done. Going to TH-cam some of his speeches now.
That was phenomenal thank you