It's interesting that we hold up 'never surrender' as a good thing, when in reality the logical extension of such a position is that a leader is willing for an entire nation, men women and children to be fodder in a war. I get the 'gut' feel that such statements can give to bolster troops.
I almost cried when he said "if necessary, for years, if necessary, alone" Being able to turn fear into courage in the face the most hopeless odds is the purest form of love for your country. For your homeland and your people, your family and your children's future. This speech is better delivered than the original. Gary Oldman deserves an award for this.
@@laveenr you ruined the vibe you pillock. Good quotes are good quotes, I doesn’t really matter if it comes from a colonizer or not. Go touch some grass Laveenr
What made this speech even more impressive is the fact that it was before the German invasion of the Soviet Union and America's entry into the war. Britain was alone against the most powerful army in the world at that time.
@@andrewcooper1046 hoppe ukraine can make the tsars armies bleed enough to send ripples back to his palace and give the oppressed natives breathing room to start rip his regime apart from the inside.... and avoid any worse or larger scale war being needed.
@@welshboi2228 aye....or a old wolf defending its den and cubs to the last breath.... perhaps not as quick like in its youth ,but on the other hand experienced and skills to draw on. hmm...reminds me of that story where a guy that made himself famous genociding predators in the us , hade a encounter with a wolf pair who's sdisplay of bonding changed his view and if i recall correctly where part of why alaska was kept semi wild rather then being 'tamed'
to live is to endure ,to endure is simply to survive longer then others... shame the scale of current technology means anything larger then proxy or 'small states' war when the theater is limited to a single planet would mean the death of the garden in the process :/ for i bet a lot of people wish right now they hade some 'direct dmocracy' to smack down more directly then through sanctions on the current tsars despotism.
My Grandfather never forgot that speech. It was one that stuck with him, even through Alzheimer’s. He fough on the beaches, he fought on the landing grounds, in the streets, and the hills.
@@AOSMAKAKMS Thats what we don’t know, he had Alzheimer’s, forgot almost everything. The almost being the war, er, both wars. He did forget most things about them, but the songs stuck with him. Whenever I would visit by him he would always sing God Save the Queen on some days, and Deutschland Hymn on the others. The last song he ever sang was It’s a Long Way to Tipperary. It did and always will bring me to tears.
The way he said "Our Island!" gave me chills. It is their island because they have given it a thousand years of British blood, sweat, and tears. One of my favorite movies
@@theonkelneico6995 Hitler, of course. Offered it because he never saw Britain as an enemy, the opposite is true. He wanted to take back east german territories and in the middle run expected an inevitable war against communist Russia. Britain fought a war that had nothing to do with her, finally to loose all its empire and give Poland and half Europe to Stalin...
@@jamesmason8436 he did indeed, but I was refering to the fact that the comment section doesn't mention his performance at all, except for the ones that criticize his performance.
Soledad Zignago no way... you trying to tell me Oldman doesn’t look like this naturally? 🤓 Ps: Oldman is the best.. he’s a once in a generation talent. Use Alan Rickmans obituary as a benchmark and try to imagine the outcry the world will show when Oldman passes. Knock on wood or whatever we should enjoy Oldman for 2 more decades at least.
@@memecrusader456 What? "We have our own dream and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked but not combined. We are interested and associated but not absorbed. If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea." - Winston Churchill
Its another of Churchill's calls to the U.S., he doesn't say it verbatim but that is the message. He says it later referencing 'the new world' obviously. Churchill does this in many of his speeches, he knows if the U.S. were to enter the war the industrial output capability alone would overwhelm German, Italy, and Japan. But Roosevelt was president of a country that was sorely tired of 'European wars' having gone over there 20 years earlier in WW1.
@G E T R E K T he may have done some less than good things, genocide in East Africa, the Bengal famine, Gallipoli, and so on, but he was the leader the UK needed in the darkest hour
Considering Churchill drank more alcohol for breakfast than most of us do in a week, I'm gonna say that's a historically accurate description. I'm convinced his slurring manner of speech was because his blood counted as 80-proof wine.
As an American, it is this speech that will always give me strength. English, Welch, Scottish, or irish..... a nation United against true evil. Steadfast against the worst of humanity in a time where utmost evil is ready to claim its jaws on the world and at the time, it was one nation united that showed the world it would fight. May Churchill live on.
@@VetrixOfficial The few small insignificant men within Southern Ireland's local executive may not be part of the UK, but many within Southern Ireland's populace volunteered to join the British Armed Forces to fight against tyranny. At a time when De Valera, the head of Southern Ireland, wanted to appease and submit to Nazism. And the Northern Irish? The people of Ulster are some of the most patriotic in the world. Their pride is proven and warranted.
@@jamesg9468 I get your point, and although many joined the British armed forces, that doesn’t make us British. The easiest way to trigger an Irishman is to call them British. My great grandfather served in the British army in WW2 so I know many left to join
British MP's are banned from clapping. The paper you see is called the Order Paper which details that days Parliamentary business. In this case it is being waved in appreciation of the speech. No applause allowed so waving the Order Paper is the replacement.
@Alex Churchill was a conservative, conservative are republican, labour democrat in US terms. Labour supporting Churchill is kinda like McConnel supporting Obamacare
I heard my country calling, away across the sea, Across the waste of waters, she calls and calls to me. Her sword is girded at her side, her helmet on her head, And around her feet are lying the dying and the dead; I hear the noise of battle, the thunder of her guns; I haste to thee, my mother, a son among thy sons.
@@connoroneill9406 its from a verse in "i vow to thee my country" that has been dropped in years past. No idea why, i think it gives a great nod to the commonwealths sacrifices.
Very few people in the world have had a speech like this...where you announced the fact that it was you, your nation alone against the "End of the World". He was incredible, not without flaws but still incredible.
@@ecofilm100 it was unavoidable. Hitler would never stop eating countries, Britain drew the line on Poland and Hitler attacked nonetheless. Appeasement made him overconfident, he didn't believe Britain would actually go to war again, he was wrong.
He was a drunk and a buffoon, making grand speeches about lofty goals that he had no ability to achieve. He condemned Europe to 5 more years of war instead of negotiating a peace after the fall of France.
i must try this with some paper in my spare time while cheering to see if this is true or not. But first a cup of tea as encouragement. maybe listen to Primeminister Churchill's speech as well.
Yes..............No other people could make it look that intense.....but at the end of the day we meant it.............and fought with such determination and ferocity, even the Japanese honoured us with the name "Muteki"."invincible warrior".
@@Ringoffire506 How could you know that? There was no audio recording made at the time. The public knew about the wording from quotes made by BBC announcers in 1940. Churchill made a record of these wartime speeches post-war, in 1949.
The audio for the speech still wasn't the actual main speech Churchill made to The Commons. What's on TH-cam is either the Commons recorded archive done in the 1950's, or a saved recording of the same speech broadcasted on British Radio after the meeting. Either way, Churchill didn't have a need to do a fiery speech on sound recording, he just needed to get his point across for scholars and/or his countrymen. Whether the actual speech given to Parliament was as boastful as it was on this recreation is lost to time, but I do imagine a mix of both -- as Churchill was a bit old and pudgy at this time, which could hinder the flavour a bit as he delivers his greatest speech.
Oldman has played a terrorist, Dracula and Churchill all with utter believability. That’s talent. Regarding Churchill, someone I can’t recall said…Winston marshaled the English language and sent it to war. True.
Bercow: "I might remind the Prime Minister that any insult towards Europe will not be tolerated on my watch!" Churchill: *pulls revolver out and shoots Bercow* "Now, where was I.. Oh yes, the beaches!"
@@manchesterunited4619 Which Tyrant did he defeat? And because a tyrant defeats another tyrant, doesnt mean he is some kind of a hero. He just defeated another tyrant. Simple as that. I notice you are biased, but thats okay, biased goes hand in hand with poor education.
@@nr1NPC No my friend. He had many faults but not as a war leader. He inspired this country to fight against the worst form of tyranny this present generation will ever know.
OMG...Gary Goldman disappears as Sir Winston Churchill. His most famous speech has me in tears still. Churchill's Speech in Parliament can inspire all people who aspire to liberty from now until kingdom come. We will forever fight on the beaches.... As an American, I Love this!
“When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” The Bulldog, -Winston Churchill
"Sir, I must object to putting you on a plane 'with the bois' headed for Berlin." "I don't care what you think monty just get me on that damn airplane"
This speech is gold. That line and many others choke me up.. England will never stand alone.. Australia is coming from one way, were coming from the other.. and we're bringing Canada with us.. long live Western democracy. Your American cousins
@@HansLandaNaranja we survived at the cost of 2.1 million people who were still living in the 1300s good deal imo were going forward not backwards it's called the advancement of the human race.
Schopenhauer wrote a book called "Will and Representation" Churchill said the exact right words , in the exact right order, with the exact right willpower. Sacred words right there. In the darkest hour the nation came together like a Roman Phalanx, impenetrable, indefatigable. We have so much to be proud of.
churchill was a nonsense fellow who starved millions of people in india and africa for his stupid war...of course understandable why the west hails him
@@sanjaysriram7294 “Starved people in India and Africa” *Wrong* - You mean the Bengal famine in India? That was mass disease, his policies merely enhanced it. He was partly to blame, but he didn’t starve them. Especially considering he sent hundreds upon thousands of tons of resources after he found out the situation’s depth. Stop making lies about him. Enough with that left wing BS.
A few short years after the war Britain surrendered to the 3rd world when HMS Windrush arrived with a load of immigrants from Jamaica. And they have yet to realize the full extent of their lose.
Remarkable when you consider that at the same time Churchill kept half the world oppressed and committed unimaginable crimes. British genocidal empire, some American scholars say.
@@ecofilm100You degenerate. May I remind you that PM Chamberlain went to Munich to sign a peace agreement w hitler along with France and Italy. Shortly after, Hitler broke one of the agreements by invading Czechoslovakia. At first, the allies let it slide. However Poland is a different story. Just before the war started, the UK, France and Poland signed a mutual defence pact, if one of the countries were attacked by a foreign power, the others would declare war on that country and aid one another. Kind of like what NATO is today. So you and ur snarky comment can piss off.
I’m not English but American , his words bring tears to my eyes. I know what the United Kingdom was going through at that time. Thank God Great Britain and the free world had such a leader as Winston Churchill. He was truly the greatest man of the 20th Century.
“Then, our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British fleet” this fragment, undoubtedly, is the fire that turned the spark on. Touching the strings of the purest British pride. Such a grandest orator who put the English language in motion into war.
Battered, bloodly, and nearly broken, the British people in all their pride entrenched themselves and sent a message to Mr Hitler, stating "we can do this all day".
Random fact: it wasn't coined the "Battle of the Atlantic" until Admiral Donitz first radioed the line "The Battle of the Atlantic has begun" to his U-boats following Canada's declaration of war (Canada which, despite then-numbering only eleven million people, would be one of only three nations directly responsible for D-Day landings and would field the third largest navy in the world by the end of the war).
Heartbreaking that in 20 years if we call upon them for solidarity, we will be responded to in not English, but Arabic. England as we remember them has fallen
This speech is awesome. This movie was awesome. Also American. I think we like Churchill more than the Brits do as a general rule haha. But he had such a command of the English Language. I read a lot and still to this day, after hundreds of books by the best writers in the world, it's the words of Churchill that have the most power.
@@redwall1521The orginal was never recorded . The " orginal " was many years after The recorded one would never have got Parliament cheering which is what happend
@Megas Pantelos I would urge you to read more on the subject. I don't want to tell you you are wrong, as everyone should have there own opinion. However, even the earnest of Churchill's critics would easily admit Churchill's individual contribution to the war was rather substantial, if at times damaging. To suggest that the Soviet contribution is 'the only thing that changed history' is to make an incredibly facile statement.
Lad you haven't heard my scouse mum going mental at me and my brothers. That's what makes you want to run away an join a battle field anywhere away from her an her mouth
I'm an American and this scene gives me goosebumps because in this moment Churchill & his countrymen vowed to fight win or lose. That's something to be proud of. Long live our best friend, England.
We have blood ties, my friend as we fought together against a force that would have crushed society. So did people in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Canada, Australia and dozens of other countries across the world.
If I were American it would give me goosebumps too. Hail the moment when the traitor Churchill decided to turn over the British Empire to the USA without a fight and deviate its formidable military and industrial capacity against an enemy who had never been nor intended to become a threat to it. Well done, Sir Winston.
@@nukni4225 Churchill isn’t a traitor comrade, he sacrificed the empire for a greater good. Either a Brit rules the empire or the empire shall fall all together.
Ironically many think Churchill saved Britain but he may have actually destroyed it. Had Neville Chamberlain simply surrendered, the British would have needed to swallow their pride and make a few adjustments but now they would be much better off (with no immigrants).
Chamberlain in retrospect did alot behind the scenes to prepare for war. He effectively stalled as long as possible to get industry ready for war. He was well liked on the domestic front that Churchill appointed him (and trusted him) to run home affairs whilst he dealt with foreign policy and the war cabinet.
As an American I get very proud at the end when he calls on the new world to rescue and liberate the old. We have fallen very far from the days when we would unite and mobilize as a people to defend the ideals we were built on. I sincerely hope one day we can find our way back.
Please take it from an Englishman, that no matter the circumstance or cause, no mater the cost in lives lost or power amassed remember that the Brittan is behind you and with her comes her sons your brothers and we a family that has stood against the tyranny's of the world twice, will gladly raise our spears and bend our body's to the task of defense from any tyranny that would seek to drive us apart. God save the Queen!
From the words of the King: "Go to the people, they will tell you their mind". So it has always been. Churchill understood that. Too many now fail to listen to the people. The people are the strength of the nation. To subvert it always leads to downfall and failure. History is a relentless and uncaring teacher, one ignores her at dire peril. Churchill studied and understood history as it was. That was his strength.
God bless, you sir, and God bless America. Our 2 nations have been through so much together; truly, we are not exaggerating when we speak of "the special relationship".
United Kingdom gains National Spirit: "We Shall Never Surrender!" *_War Support +20%_* *_Political Power Gain +5%_* *_Ideology Drift Defense +50%_* *_Recruitable Population Factor +10%_*
I'm American and I'm crying. One of the most patriotic and inspiring speeches in human history. We love Churchill here in the USA, and we love the United Kingdom! ❤️
Mr Fafaa Right you are. No one in history is perfect and even those who did great things also did some questionable ones too. We have to take the bad with the good.
No one is perfect, Winston was what he needed to be to win us the war against an even worse man, and in doing so gave us all the right to judge and cast blame and fault.
One of the greatest performence's of all time One of the greatest and underrated movies of all time One of the greatest speech's of all time ,,We Shall Fight on the Beaches"
The interesting thing about that passage: in that paragraph "surrender" was the only word he used that was of Norman French derivation (though there were a few words like "ocean" and "subjugated" that came from Greek or Latin by other routes).
To grasp the magnitude of Churchill's words you'd have had to have been there at that time. - The most powerful standing army in the world which has rampaged across the whole of Europe is barely 20 miles away. - You are completely alone (empire nations excepted). Your main ally the French have just been comprehensively out thought and cut to ribbons by the blitzkreig and your army barely got out alive. You have virtually no heavy weapons left. The country is wide open. - Your air force is hugely outnumbered and facing almost overwhelming odds against a battle hardened Luftwaffe. - You have no idea how you are going to defeat the enemy and frankly don't have the capability to even think about it. All you can hope for is to hold out and pray. Victory is a crazy dream. 'Balls of steel' doesn't even begin to do it justice....
Sainte Jeanne d'Arc 1429 and for good reason. Who held Europe against the axis. France? Oh wait they were knocked out in the space of a few weeks and surrendered. Half of modern France was ruled by Britain for centuries. Your “country” is somewhat a bit older than the USA, with probably as little culture. Before a few centuries ago you were squabbling duchies and before that some naked tribes running away from the Romans. Agincourt was a joke. So yeah. We have justification.
@Sainte Jeanne d'Arc 1429 You don't seem to deny anything I pointed out. At least we can agree that America is a cultural cesspool- devoid of anything cultural.
lol olol the reason you think America doesn’t have culture is because much of our culture has spread to the rest of the western world. We are the biggest producers of entertainment, which made it easy for our culture to spread. Each state, and often the larger cities, in the US has its own culture and history. Our country is set up in a similar way as the Europe Union. You have to think of each state as almost a separate country.
As an American, it is strange that one of the proudest feelings I have for my own nation is not by speech by an American, but by a Brit, saying with prophetic understanding and insight, the last line of this speech: "Until in God's god time the New World, with all its power and might steps forth to the rescue of the Old". This was so true, so necessary, yet we over here did not see it until it was almost too late. Thank God that we did! God bless Britain, and God Bless the United States! Allies and friends forever!
Yes, but what Churchill didn't understand was that we Germans were or are absolutely not interested in the UK. The UK died in its anti-German hatred, which the English had harboured long before 1914. A nation that ran a genocidal empire for centuries, covered up all its crimes and could only be stopped in two wars. Today, the British are where they belong. At the bottom and only just beginning to come to terms with their many crimes.
Canada was also supplying Britain, even before the Americans "officially" entered the war. Canadian destroyers guarded the lifeline of ships crossing the Atlantic. They carried Canadian food, Canadian munitions, and Canadian troops. And many of the pilots who defended the skies during the Battle of Britain were Canadian. And yes, we had help from the United States, even when the US was officially neutral. American pilots drove their planes across the border (drove, not flew) and left them for the Royal Canadian Air Force. And many American servicemen enlisted with the Canadian military before the United States offically declared war.
That's a remarkable thing Jack. The German experience after WWII is something I find fascinating and impressive in so many ways. I just wonder if this political self-negation of this most intelligent of peoples has gone too far.
I`m 63 and English, for the first 8 years of my life I was privileged to live at the same time as this truly great man I can remember watching his funeral on TV and as his coffin sailed passed on the Thames the dockers lowering their cranes jibs in salute. I`m biased of course but to me he was the greatest man of the 20th century.
I'm only 17, and thus have a much more restricted perspective on events, but I have a great respect for him and his achievements. He certainly wasnt perfect, but as far as I can make out, he was exactly what Britain needed at the time
Yes he was a great Man seeing not only threat of fascist regimes but communist regimes also I'm sure he viewed the fall of USSR. God bless men of vision. " Britannia rules the waves. "
@@miniatureben3558 you should be ashamed of your military honor. Everybody knows you're back at home like "thank god for pearl harbor". Don't worry. The US will give you a pass. Just change you poster to keep calm and kiss my cousin's ***
@@user-kvartz-a8 the 'original'....isn't the original. It was recorded in 1949 for posterity. The speech he gave in the commons was far more impassioned by all accounts and more importantly. It was NOT broadcast.
How would you know how Winston sounded. What you here and all here is a recording. The real speech was never recorded for security reasons. All films are over dramatic or no 1 would watch them. The train scene did not happen for example.
he sent thousands of working class men into certain death and yet because of he had a good command of the English language he has some how become a hero, if he was a hero why did the British public deny him a place in government.
This man was unbelievable. I guarantee that 99 out of 100 people in that position would have chosen to surrender, thank God Winston Churchill was there at that time.
@@maxmel1778 They had indeed. But I don’t think an invasion of Britain was ever feasible because of the massive superiority of the Royal Navy. Any invasion force would have met absolute mayhem in the channel. Even if the invasion force succeeded in landing, imagine the problems of re-supplying them.
I can remember as a child hearing that speech 4 the first time and knowing that at the time the UK was totally alone against the awesome German juggernaut and even though I didn't really understand it I listened to it in school. And when I here it as an adult i site there in awe great Britain was so lucky to have that man at that time leading them most men would have surrender thank God he did not!
This is probably the most balls of steel moment of the last century. If you just look at how badly positioned UK was in 1940 you get shoked. The decision to stand up even when the allies were in their knees literally shaped everything since them. Saved the western civilization as we know and shaped the eastern as it would be. The Balls of Steel Award goes to Winston and to the RAF.
Sacrificed half a million British lives, the whole British Empire and all of Britain's gold, so that Germans could get rid of fascism and prosper under the blessings of American style democracy. What a generous man Sir Winston was.
The allies weren't really on their kness though.. Realistically a German invasion was never possible, and they knew that. It was Germany that was the underdog here, the UK had a whole Empire, and plenty of Allies they could call in. Germany had only what they have taken, and the few allies that pledged their loyalty, and very finite resources. Compared to the allies, this speech would make far more sense given by the Reich chancellery, and it was. It was just forgotten. Because they lost.
@@nukni4225 That is the MOST propagandic British Statement I have ever heard lmao! This was absolutely not about Fascism. It was still just another power struggle. The UK and France have always fought against German hegemony with all their strength. For as long as they have existed as a nation.
Today is the 75th anniversary of the victory in Europe. Let us remember the soldiers, the tankers, the pilots, the sailors, the medical personnel and the men who lead them, lest we forget.
We shall remember The soldiers of the British Empire The soldiers of the Republic of France The soldiers of the United States The soldiers of the Netherlands The soldiers of Poland The soldiers of the Soviet Union The soldiers of China The soldiers of Italy that turned against Mussolini during the Italian Campaign And the people who fought in various resistance groups
You are absolutely right. The west has become a cartoon of its previous self. It seems like it no longer has the courage to do what is necessary, to stand for what is right, and to spill blood when needed.
Without starting WW3, sadly, there isn’t much anyone can do. WW3 wouldn’t end like like WW2. It would be a nuclear war, and that isn’t in the interest of any country
And in the future, we shall name one of our human spaceships “Winston Churchill”. In the event of an alien invasion, it shall defend our planet, whatever the cost maybe.
In response to the original comment, that's correct. USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81) is an Arleigh-Burke class destroyer in commission with the United States Navy.
Nancy Astor once told Churchill in Parliament that if he were her husband, she'd put arsenic in his tea. Churchill replied: "Madame, if I were your husband, I would drink it!!"
Max Oakmandel: Because Churchill, more than anyone else, is directly responsible for taking Britain into the two World Wars that caused bloodletting on a scale previously unimaginable. After the first one, in which Britain, France and Russia were unable to defeat Germany, only an idiot could possibly believe that a generation later Britain could defeat Germany alone. The scene is a very good and accurate historical representation and shows not just Churchill but most MPs were suffering from " War Sycosis " and yes it is a recognised mental condition. These people took Britain into a war it could not and subsequently did not win, bankrupting it in the process.
As a french, thank you. Churchill is a great man. He, at least fought till the end, he at least recognized that the french were needed and that they played a great role in Dynamo
Nothing says "You are needed and play a great role" and "we are here to liberate you" better then some pressuring of France (and other nations) to not proceed with peace with Germany after being pushed back to their country after briefly invading Germany via Saar, like some liberating indiscriminate and unrestricted terror bombing campaigns across France/Europe and the civilian populations/cities (such as Paris) that killed more French civilians then British civilians from Germany's bombing in retaliation to Churchill's back to back night bombings against German civilians for three months, or sinking French ships filled with citizens and military personel. Justifying it as "necessary to prevent Germany using their ships to reach Britain." Even though Hitler forced his generals to stand down and let the British at Dunkirk evacuate and return to Britain when Germany could have completely destroyed the trapped soldiers, continued the war by invading a nation that is weakened in strength when they abandoned their equipment at Dunkirk and had to use civilian ships to evacute the British soldiers. Or, captured the stranded and surrounded British troops as POWs and use them to make demands from Britain. Which he never made any demands from Britain or France. The "threatened" people of Britain faced no threat from Germany. Before the war, France also faced no threat from Germany until it invaded Germany. Nor the neutral nations that were used by the Allied powers to launch their invasion of Germany, by invading (in the sense of an unwanted presence of another country's military) those neutral nations. Hitler would have no need to defend his people from invasion by premptively striking and catching them offguard in these countries and pushed them back to their respective countries, if the Allied powers didn't disregard their neutrality and brought the war to their country. "Since the (British) bombardment of Friborg these objectives are open towns, market places and villages, burning houses, hospitals, schools, kindergartens and whatever else may come their way. Until now I have hardly had any reprisals. That does not mean this will be or is my only reply. I know that our answer, which will come some day, will bring upon the people unending suffering and misery. Of course, not upon Mr. Churchill, for he no doubt will already be in Canada where the money and the children of those principally interested in the war already have been sent. For millions of other persons, great suffering will begin. Mr. Churchill, or perhaps others, for once believe me when I predict a great empire will be destroyed, an empire that it was never my intention to destroy or even to harm. I do realize that this struggle, if it continues, can end only with the complete annihilation of one or the other of the two adversaries. Mr. Churchill may believe this will be Germany. I know that it will be Britain. In this hour I feel it to be my duty before my own conscience to appeal once more to reason and common sense in Great Britain as much as elsewhere. I consider myself in a position to make this appeal, since I am not the vanquished, begging favors, but the victor speaking in the name of reason. I can see no reason why this war must go on! I am grieved to think of the sacrifices it will claim. I should like to avert them. As for my own people, I know that millions of German men, young and old alike, are burning with the desire to settle accounts with the enemy who for the second time has declared war upon us for no reason whatever. But I also know that at home there are many women and mothers who, ready as they are to sacrifice all they have in life, yet are bound to it by their heartstrings. Possibly Mr. Churchill again will brush aside this statement of mine by saying that it is merely born of fear and of doubt in our final victory. In that case I shall have relieved my conscience in regard to the things to come." - Hitler. July 19th, 1940. "The blood of every single Englishman is too valuable to shed. Our two people belong together racially and traditonally. That is and always has been my aim, even if our generals can't grasp it." - Hitler. On the evacuation of Dunkirk. "It has come to war. I have done everything within my power here. Everything a man could possibly do, almost to the point of self-abasement to avoid it. I have made offer upon offer to the English. I consulted their diplomats here and pleaded with them to be reasonable. But nothing could be done, they wanted war and they made no effort to disguise it. For 7 years, Churchill has been declaring: "I want war!" I regret that these two peoples must fight with each other, whom I wanted so desperately to bring together. I extended my hand often -- in vain. They wanted this war, now they shall have it! The German Volk will see this fight to the end. The German Volk want to have peace finally. It wants a peace that allows it to be left alone and to work and which does not allow international scroundels to agitate among other peoples against us! These are the same vermin that make their fortune through war. I have no reason to wage war for material considerations. For us, it is but a sad enterprise: it robs us, the German Volk and the whole community of so much time and people. I do not possess any stocks in the armament industry, I do not earn anything in this fight. I would be happy if we could go back to working, like I used to work for my volk. But, these international war scoundrels are at the same time the armament industry's greatest black marketeers! They own the factories! They make the business! They are the same people we had here earlier. I do not desire to wage war but if it is forced onto me, I will wage it till my last breath! I can wage it today because I know the entire volk stand behind me! When this war is over, Germany will begin a great undertaking. A cry of "Arise!" shall echo through the German lands! Then the German volk will abandoned the production of cannons and will begin the labors of peace and rebuilding work for the mass millions! - Hitler. “We ask no favor of the enemy. We seek from them, no compassion. On the contrary, if tonight the people were asked to cast their votes as to whether a convention should be entered to stop the bombing of all cities, an overwhelming majority would reply ‘No, we will meet out to the Germans, the measure and more then the measure.’” - Churchill. While British politicians that demanded peace and stopping the bombing of civilians in Germany were silenced in various ways, while citizens that did the same were jailed, and the German officials that risked their lives to fly West and personally hand Hitler's peace offer just to be arrested and thrown in isolation to be forgotten about. "Imagine the people that say: Oh, in this country there is someone in power who is not to our liking. Therefore, we will just have to wage war against it for the next three years! Naturally, we won't wage it ourselves but we will search the world for someone who will wage it in our stead. We will provide the cannons and grenades to him and he will provide the grenadiers, the soldiers, the men. What recklessness! What would they have said of us had we at one point, stood up and declare: We do not like this regime in power: for instance, let us say France or Britain. Therefore, we will force war upon it now. What utter recklessness! To drive millions of people to their deaths because of that!? There is a conspiracy against the people in this world that knows no scruple in regards to their own people, only selfish desires for themselves and their social class. Let there be no doubt as to one thing: We shall pick up the gauntlets. We shall rid the world of this conspiracy!" - Hitler Churchill was in debt by the millions before being appointed as Prime Minister. He was chosen because he is a warmonger, his favorite past time was to force their non-white compatriots in Africa and the Middle East to submit to Britain's rule by dropping bombs, using concentration camps to place natives of the continent/country in and starve them to death, 20,000 plus Africans dead. After the war, he was a multi millionaire. I imagine his net worth today would be much higher. "I am taking on this battle at last. And I am taking it on with the same determination that which I always take on battle: Fight to the very last! They wanted it, they shall have it! They want to destroy Germany from the air! I shall show them who will be destroyed! The English civilians, for which I only have sympathy for, can thank the common criminal Churchill for this! Mr. Churchill, with this war, has started the greatest military nonsense for which any warlord or leader has ever been responsible! He is fighting a war that will, in one way or another, destroy England!" - Hitler. September of 1940 (Not long after Hitler forced his generals to let the British evacuate) , announcing Germany's retaliation after 3 1/2 months of Hitler pleading for peace with Britain and not retaliating in kind. Dropping leaflets containing English translation of his "A Last Appeal to Reason" speech over London and other Britain cities while the British RAF continued to bomb German civlians at night because they couldn't penetrate Germany's air space, beginning in March of 1940 with the British RAF bombing civilians in Dresden, but picked up significantly in August 1940. Between 1939-1945, the allied powers dropped 3.4 million tons of bombs. Much more greater then Germany’s. Hitler and Chamberlain agreed to no bombing warfare against any civilian population. Hitler was against the use of bombing warfare and detested it. Churchill rejected that agreement upon his appointment to Prime Minister.
WW2, no matter the politics of Britain at the time they all just came together. Right wing, left wing, liberals and conservatives all came together to win the war. Churchill had his flaws like any man but he was without any doubt the perfect man for the job
Would the liberals, conservatives, and socialists come together today to fight a common enemy? No chance. This country hasn't never been this divided since the English Civil War.
@@stuartcolwell5045 Always feels that way, until the moment of crisis comes. I think you'd be surprised what your nation is still capable of, if it was asked to do it.
@@stuartcolwell5045 In reality, when cornered, the British unite and fight intelligently (radar, Battle of Britain) and with terrible vengeance (Dresden firestorms). Then as soon as the peril has passed, resume bickering amongst themselves. Think about a brother reacts if you attack the sibling he constantly quarrels with.
@Sassysim Not like he requested that the princely states give any food they have in surplus to the Bengal region, which they all refused to do so, or anything,
Humans are tribal, they'll find ways to create division in a group of 10, until they find a bigger common enemy to unite against. If aliens invaded tomorrow, the world would unite together as one, if not then we'll likely declare whatever foreign power is enemy number one for xyz reasons and go on merrily on our way to world war 3.
Churchill was 5foot 6. (Please realise that this is a joke and it's sad that I feel I have to clarify before making one but that's the world we live in/the internet)
I’m a Canadian, a woman, born after WWII ended. I want to (and plan to) memorize this speech so well that I can put great passion into it. Then I’ll try teaching it to my granddaughters! 🤗🥰 My grandfather was in vaudeville. My Dad in the Canadian navy during WWII. My mother born, raised and living in Canada til 1941, worked for British Intelligence in the US til the end of the war.
People want to tear down his statues. He chose to continue the fight against Hitler even after he was offered peace because he understood the evil he faced. One of the heroes of the free world
haha a hero is a bit of a stretch. He wasn't so heroic for people on some parts of the world. But I don't condone this rabid "cancel culture" that's tearing down statues and all.
yeah the hero who hoped Mahatma Gandhi died in the british policy induced bengal famine that killed 3 million people. did not allow grain to be unloaded cause he wanted to create reserve stockpiles in Britain.never really paid back war debt owed to India.
The main reason he did not want to surrender was because he was bankrupt and was put back into stature by bankers on the one condition that he would never surrender, you oaf. Churchill was a severe sell-out, just like the empire was.. claiming they represented "peace" whilst killing millions simultaneously in their colonial dominions.
@@e-dating He offered india and other places independence, he just wanted india to help us because they were the only thing in the way of japan meeting germany from the east and west of them. But any and all country's apart of the empire chose to join the war of their own accord, nobody was forced.
@@aryaaswale7316 I'm a Dutch guy. I hope India will never receive a penny. You do not deserve it. India is not a hair better than the old British Empire. You killed perhaps even more people. Besides that, the people who did this and the people who suffered are all dead. You just want easy money!
I went to US Army basic training in Fort Benning in 2017… close to graduation our Drill Sergeants played this very same Speech from the actual Churchill. It was one moment from my army career I will always remember
Any particular reason why? For an American I would have thought if any British speech would make it into the end of training it might be Shakespeare Henry V not this...
@@Delogros because it’s a speech about a man trying to get his country to fight on and not surrender in the face of adversity. No matter who’s it from it’s a good way to motivate people to keep fighting. When I joined the army in 2017 lots of things were going in the world. And here in America lots of leaders are saying we should get less involved even when our Allies ask for help. This was a way to motivate us to keep fighting. It’s the message in the speech that inspired us soldiers here in America
That's one of if not the greatest war time speech in history. His words gave strength and will to his people and the world. His words were heard loud and clear in Washington DC.
Lol...proud for what...he starved 3 million Bengalis to death...but it don't matter as Majid killed 1 million Jews who were Europeans....we it's due to Majid that all of our countries are now free... Take a bow.... desrespect from India
@@ashutoshkumar1960 if it wasent for churchill the uk would never have survived and germaney would never have been defeated and the Americans and russians would stand alone with all of the uk and her colonels gone
The guts, the confidence, the raw emotional power, the complexity of his words, the determination, never giving up, when everything is against you, going to the end, against all odds. A speech to combine it all, this has to be one of the greatest speeches of all time, the situation at hand was too serious. Coming out on top in the end.
It’s sad that people have forgotten just how important this speech was. Now people want to persecute this example of longevity and utmost confidence. Screw the b.s politics, this is what we rally behind.
As an American, I LOVE this man more than words can describe. Thank you Brits for standing the line against the ultimate tyranny until we could join in with you 🇺🇸🇬🇧
@@tbow6719 I'm just sorry it took us so long. We had to be goaded into it. But once Roosevelt had his excuse, he opened up ALL the floodgates of industry and might. And - though we were attacked in the Pacific - who did we come to aid FIRST? Our dear friends in the British Isles of course!
As a Mad Dog and Englishman............Let me tell you.........We love you American people.............and will always be eternally grateful for the sacrifices that the American people made in being our "Brothers In Arms" in both World Wars........ until our deserved victory.
@@logandarklighter It wasn't your war to fight. Glad you did in the end, but there was no good reason for young Americans to die because we Europeans couldn't stop warring. Thankfully, it turned out Hitler was more than just another European warlord, and a genuine great evil that transcended continents. Still, it was good of you to step in.
Churchill is inspired by the speech of George Clemenceau, whom he respected a lot. Clemenceau pronounced this during the 1st World War: "The Germans can take Paris, but that will not stop me from continuing the war.We will fight on the Loire, we will fight on the Garonne, we will fight even in the Pyrenees.And if, in the end, we are pushed back outside the Pyrenees, we will continue the war at sea " Two great man of the same temper!
The political leader who most positively influenced his country during the war, and who gained the most prestige from it, is unquestionably Clemenceau. One can not imagine the prestige he has acquired at the end of this world conflict. In France we call it even "Père la Victoire" in English : Father of Victory . Churchill was admiring this extraordinary man, and to return to the famous speech, Churchill was present during the speech. And for real, Churchill loses World War I politically speaking. The battle of the Dardanelles is a disaster and it is the main craftsman. His political credit and almost ruined after his. But it makes her heroic return during the "dark hours" even more magnificent. We do not make any more of her ...
@Rosida Andriyana Churchill has an advantage because today we speak English more than French. But Hitler's rise to power was a direct consequence of Clemenceau's ferocious jingoism against the Germans. Nobody in WW2 came close (and that's not a criticism of Churchill, but realistically it was harder to convince the public to support a new war after their memory of WW1)
@@Sawrattan No, if Clemenceau was allowed to do as he wished by the other allies, Germany would have been splitted into several small states, unable to do any harm.
@@nicolas.p331 because that would've worked right? Hint, no it wouldn't, it would've ended in the same situation you have seen as the Entente tried to split up turkey.
This was arguably one of the most important speeches by any British politician ever. I love the line by Lord Halifax at the end (not in this clip). Winnie has just mobilised the English language and sent it into battle. When watching this film in the cinema there was an elderly lady sitting a few seats behind me reciting this speech word for word. She was of that generation, whose "finest hour" saved our nation. Winston's great oratory has now become the stuff of history and legend. He was indeed a Titan, shaped by events and shaper of them also. We owe this man a debt of gratitude that is beyond ordinary measure. His memory and honoured place in our island story is assured. We will never see his like again. God bless this man and all he did for our country and the cause of freedom. (By the way, I'm not even a Tory)...
@@DarkMatterX1 No. Because I also recognise that for all Winston's achievements, he and I would have some serious political differences as to how best to run a free and independent country. My point of agreement with him was that we should be in fact be free in the first place to make those choices. I cite you one other example of this man's greatness. When the WW2 was over and we had an election in which the Labour Party won a resounding victory Winston was asked by a somewhat perplexed American reporter how he felt about being rejected by the British People and did he feel they were showing somewhat how ungrateful they were - to which his perfect reply was. Not at all. That's why we fought the war. Brilliant response. Only a true and sincere patriot and democrat could have replied thus. What a statesman? What a man? Wish we had more like him today on all sides of the political divide.
Tay Arslan “The finest hour of the darkest hour”. It basically means the greatest hour in that dark time, Germany was planning Operation Sea Lion, the invasion of the British home islands. It makes perfect sense
Rotten Tomatoes describes Oldman’s performance in this movie as “electrifying.” I think that’s the best word they could have used, he knocked it out of the park.
Gary Oldman is one of the very finest actors in all of film history. Right up there with Dustin Hoffman and Johnny Depp. This guy doing an immaculate version of Winston Churchill has had SO MANY diverse roles, and he excelled in everything he did.
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“If you’re going through hell, keep going”
Sir winston Churchill
Jack the certified G-- I love that quote. I think of it often lately.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. -Edmund Burke
Rodney Aitkins- Country singer.
Jack the certified G my mom told me that and it got me through five years in a mental hospital. Out now for two years and not looking back
“I am facist”
Mosley
“We shall never surrender.” A quote that will never leave me.
From the siege of Londonderry 1689 and repeated at The Battle of The Somme (36 Ulster Division) in 1916 'No Surrender'
No surrender is edged into the British psyche.
Immune system in your body during covid be like 3:01
It's interesting that we hold up 'never surrender' as a good thing, when in reality the logical extension of such a position is that a leader is willing for an entire nation, men women and children to be fodder in a war. I get the 'gut' feel that such statements can give to bolster troops.
@@DanielVerberne It works when you don’t start the war and aren’t the aggressor, for sure, it was totally apt in the case of Sir Winston using it.
You have enemies? Good, that means you have stood up for something, sometime in your life. -Winston Churchill
churchill also killed thousands of Indians but there we go
That's one great KD ratio then
Raphix HAHAAHAHAHA
@@benmonk6495 but you could say he had a large part in the saviour of the entire free world so there we go
@@likeablechuck1448 still doesn't justify the killings of innocents does it?
I almost cried when he said "if necessary, for years, if necessary, alone"
Being able to turn fear into courage in the face the most hopeless odds is the purest form of love for your country.
For your homeland and your people, your family and your children's future.
This speech is better delivered than the original.
Gary Oldman deserves an award for this.
Uhm, he won the Oscar for best male lead for his portrayal of Churchill.
@@BrutusMaximusAurelius it's great to hear I didn't know
He did won, Academy would be damned if they don't give him the Oscar.
UK: if necessary, for years, if necessary, alone
USA: you’re not alone 🫡
@@Simone_Maresca they were never alone. They have colonies
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchill
How to be a dictator in the name of democracy?
"Colonization" -Winston Churchill
@@laveenr you ruined the vibe you pillock. Good quotes are good quotes, I doesn’t really matter if it comes from a colonizer or not. Go touch some grass Laveenr
@@laveenr He was a man of his time mate. Times change.
@@laveenr
How to be a Dumbass
*"Be laveenr"*
-laveenr
@@laveenr The irony that he was criticizing colonization with that quote and you couldn't wrap your head around it.
What made this speech even more impressive is the fact that it was before the German invasion of the Soviet Union and America's entry into the war. Britain was alone against the most powerful army in the world at that time.
Like a mighty old lion taking a last stand.
this is what boris meant when he said Britain and Ukraine are one!
@@andrewcooper1046 hoppe ukraine can make the tsars armies bleed enough to send ripples back to his palace and give the oppressed natives breathing room to start rip his regime apart from the inside.... and avoid any worse or larger scale war being needed.
@@welshboi2228 aye....or a old wolf defending its den and cubs to the last breath.... perhaps not as quick like in its youth ,but on the other hand experienced and skills to draw on.
hmm...reminds me of that story where a guy that made himself famous genociding predators in the us , hade a encounter with a wolf pair who's sdisplay of bonding changed his view and if i recall correctly where part of why alaska was kept semi wild rather then being 'tamed'
to live is to endure ,to endure is simply to survive longer then others...
shame the scale of current technology means anything larger then proxy or 'small states' war when the theater is limited to a single planet would mean the death of the garden in the process :/ for i bet a lot of people wish right now they hade some 'direct dmocracy' to smack down more directly then through sanctions on the current tsars despotism.
My Grandfather never forgot that speech. It was one that stuck with him, even through Alzheimer’s. He fough on the beaches, he fought on the landing grounds, in the streets, and the hills.
That is powerful, made me tear up, respect
Well, not exactly on the beaches, landing grounds, streets or hills Churchill refers to.
@@unscentednapalm8547 but he did fight, in streets, ion landing grounds, and and the hills.
@@letsgoblue9596 how? he had alzheimers
@@AOSMAKAKMS Thats what we don’t know, he had Alzheimer’s, forgot almost everything. The almost being the war, er, both wars. He did forget most things about them, but the songs stuck with him. Whenever I would visit by him he would always sing God Save the Queen on some days, and Deutschland Hymn on the others. The last song he ever sang was It’s a Long Way to Tipperary. It did and always will bring me to tears.
"we shall defend our island whatever the cost may be!" - that was truely the most heartwarming sentence of his speech!
Yeah defend it from the one who offered peace 19 july 1940. Nonsense. England's "victory" resulted in losing all its empire...
The way he said "Our Island!" gave me chills. It is their island because they have given it a thousand years of British blood, sweat, and tears. One of my favorite movies
@@cccccccc135 you do know who is and WHY "the one" offered peace to britain?
@@theonkelneico6995 Hitler, of course. Offered it because he never saw Britain as an enemy, the opposite is true. He wanted to take back east german territories and in the middle run expected an inevitable war against communist Russia. Britain fought a war that had nothing to do with her, finally to loose all its empire and give Poland and half Europe to Stalin...
Taiwan
I don't see enough recognition for Gary Oldman. His performance is spectacular.
Thought he won an Oscar for this?
@@jamesmason8436 he did indeed, but I was refering to the fact that the comment section doesn't mention his performance at all, except for the ones that criticize his performance.
Casper Lindberg I’m guilty I thought this was a documentary and this was Winny himself.
And yet, they admit they did a lot of makeup on Gary here.
PS: I love Gary Oldman.
Soledad Zignago no way... you trying to tell me Oldman doesn’t look like this naturally? 🤓
Ps: Oldman is the best.. he’s a once in a generation talent. Use Alan Rickmans obituary as a benchmark and try to imagine the outcry the world will show when Oldman passes. Knock on wood or whatever we should enjoy Oldman for 2 more decades at least.
"If necessary for years... if necessary... alone."
The EU has a short memory... When Europe fell the UK stood to defend it
My favourite part. It's so well delivered.
@@RikologyGaming Hey EU did not leave UK, UK left EU
@@majormoolah5056 it was the fact that the EU didn't allow Britain to become part of the EU at first
@@memecrusader456 What? "We have our own dream and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked but not combined. We are interested and associated but not absorbed. If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea." - Winston Churchill
"He mobilized the English language and sent it into the battle."
And won.
@@dinomra7771 hahahahahha
Great line, shame about that “z” though...
and then some
@@gettysb19 Why? It's the preferred spelling in the Oxford English Dictionary.
When he said "if necessary, for year's and if necessary, Alone" that is courage
Its another of Churchill's calls to the U.S., he doesn't say it verbatim but that is the message. He says it later referencing 'the new world' obviously. Churchill does this in many of his speeches, he knows if the U.S. were to enter the war the industrial output capability alone would overwhelm German, Italy, and Japan. But Roosevelt was president of a country that was sorely tired of 'European wars' having gone over there 20 years earlier in WW1.
“If you are going through hell…keep going.” - Winston Churchill
One of my most favourite quotes of all times
Love this quote as well, got me through dark times in high school.
Although there’s no record of Churchill himself actually saying it
Oda clan?
@@ozymandias5513 At this point, it barely matters if he really did say it. He's credited with it, and it helps people.
@G E T R E K T he may have done some less than good things, genocide in East Africa, the Bengal famine, Gallipoli, and so on, but he was the leader the UK needed in the darkest hour
Me: I promise I won't get all Political
3 drinks later:
Hahaha, imagine waking up with a hangover only to see that you somehow declared war on Germany last night.
Considering Churchill drank more alcohol for breakfast than most of us do in a week, I'm gonna say that's a historically accurate description.
I'm convinced his slurring manner of speech was because his blood counted as 80-proof wine.
This is too acuratte
Hitler quit rage the plan .
Good job mates .
"Are you afraid?"
*_looks at his shaking hand_* "I must be."
"Good."
"Why is it good?"
"Means you're not stupid."
King of the North!.
no fear is stupid
Rest easy Theon.
A stannis reference might have been more fitting
@@hamzamahmood9565 ”Fewer”
As an American, it is this speech that will always give me strength. English, Welch, Scottish, or irish..... a nation United against true evil. Steadfast against the worst of humanity in a time where utmost evil is ready to claim its jaws on the world and at the time, it was one nation united that showed the world it would fight. May Churchill live on.
Except Ireland is and wasn’t a part of the UK
@@VetrixOfficial oh, so people from Northern Ireland are not Irish ?
@@VetrixOfficial The few small insignificant men within Southern Ireland's local executive may not be part of the UK, but many within Southern Ireland's populace volunteered to join the British Armed Forces to fight against tyranny. At a time when De Valera, the head of Southern Ireland, wanted to appease and submit to Nazism.
And the Northern Irish? The people of Ulster are some of the most patriotic in the world. Their pride is proven and warranted.
@@shredtildeath777 they are, but saying Irish would include all of Ireland
@@jamesg9468 I get your point, and although many joined the British armed forces, that doesn’t make us British.
The easiest way to trigger an Irishman is to call them British.
My great grandfather served in the British army in WW2 so I know many left to join
British MP's are banned from clapping. The paper you see is called the Order Paper which details that days Parliamentary business. In this case it is being waved in appreciation of the speech. No applause allowed so waving the Order Paper is the replacement.
David Bradley- Thank you, Always wondered about that.
@@pompeygerry And it was the Labour MP's who supported him while the Tories sat quiet
@Alex Churchill was a conservative, conservative are republican, labour democrat in US terms. Labour supporting Churchill is kinda like McConnel supporting Obamacare
@@alexproud4974 Churchill actually switched parties from labour to Conservative
@@alexproud4974 no
Churchill: Why do I hear boss music...oh wait, it's mine
Dude this seriously made me lol
But that just makes me wonder: if Churchhill had his own boss theme, what would it sound like?
@@FirstNameLastName-oz5ij Pure testosterone.
@@FirstNameLastName-oz5ij Rule Britannia
@@FirstNameLastName-oz5ij probably god save the queen
@@stratigangames508 *Bass Boosted*
"And if necessary... alone"
Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, swimming across the sea: WE'RE COMING MUM
I heard my country calling, away across the sea,
Across the waste of waters, she calls and calls to me.
Her sword is girded at her side, her helmet on her head,
And around her feet are lying the dying and the dead;
I hear the noise of battle, the thunder of her guns;
I haste to thee, my mother, a son among thy sons.
@@thegeneralmitch where is that from?
@@connoroneill9406 its from a verse in "i vow to thee my country" that has been dropped in years past. No idea why, i think it gives a great nod to the commonwealths sacrifices.
@@thegeneralmitch ah, that makes more sense. I knew I knew it 😂
USA: Hold my beer, Dad.
Very few people in the world have had a speech like this...where you announced the fact that it was you, your nation alone against the "End of the World". He was incredible, not without flaws but still incredible.
He should have made peace with Germany. WW2 could have been avoided.
@@ecofilm100 COWARD
@@ecofilm100 ??? No? That is completely false
@@ecofilm100 it was unavoidable. Hitler would never stop eating countries, Britain drew the line on Poland and Hitler attacked nonetheless. Appeasement made him overconfident, he didn't believe Britain would actually go to war again, he was wrong.
He was a drunk and a buffoon, making grand speeches about lofty goals that he had no ability to achieve. He condemned Europe to 5 more years of war instead of negotiating a peace after the fall of France.
A speech that defined one of the greatest moments in British history.
@@oldtin82 “We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”
@@oldtin82 What was the alternative then? you idiot
and the World's
This and “This was their finest hour”.
Not just British but world history
The British
The only people who can make waving bits of paper look intense.
i must try this with some paper in my spare time while cheering to see if this is true or not.
But first a cup of tea as encouragement. maybe listen to Primeminister Churchill's speech as well.
Those are handkerchiefs.
Basically there's a rule or a convention that says you're not allowed to clap your hands in the house of Commons so they have to wave papers
i want you to look up the flag at iwo jima
Yes..............No other people could make it look that intense.....but at the end of the day we meant it.............and fought with such determination and ferocity, even the Japanese honoured us with the name "Muteki"."invincible warrior".
Gary Old man’s performance is so outstanding that it feels like Churchill came back to play himself.
@@Ringoffire506 How could you know that? There was no audio recording made at the time. The public knew about the wording from quotes made by BBC announcers in 1940. Churchill made a record of these wartime speeches post-war, in 1949.
@@Ringoffire506 Recorded later.
@@Ringoffire506 There were no microphones in the House of Commons until at least 1950.
ALL of the audio recordings you hear were made later.
The audio for the speech still wasn't the actual main speech Churchill made to The Commons. What's on TH-cam is either the Commons recorded archive done in the 1950's, or a saved recording of the same speech broadcasted on British Radio after the meeting. Either way, Churchill didn't have a need to do a fiery speech on sound recording, he just needed to get his point across for scholars and/or his countrymen.
Whether the actual speech given to Parliament was as boastful as it was on this recreation is lost to time, but I do imagine a mix of both -- as Churchill was a bit old and pudgy at this time, which could hinder the flavour a bit as he delivers his greatest speech.
Oldman has played a terrorist, Dracula and Churchill all with utter believability. That’s talent. Regarding Churchill, someone I can’t recall said…Winston marshaled the English language and sent it to war. True.
I come back to this often as it is so uplifting and inspiring. The movie is a masterpiece like almost every Churchill movie.
Today it would be like:
Churchill: "We shall fight on the.."
Bercow: "Ordeeeeeeeeer!"
Bercow is gone
LMAO true
More like... oooodaaaaa!!!
Where have you been? Bercow has been replaced. 😂🤣
Bercow: "I might remind the Prime Minister that any insult towards Europe will not be tolerated on my watch!"
Churchill: *pulls revolver out and shoots Bercow* "Now, where was I.. Oh yes, the beaches!"
Hitler: “I’m going to conquer Great Britain :)”
Churchill: “And I took that personally”
"Here, here!"
These comments tho
@@manchesterunited4619 Which Tyrant did he defeat?
And because a tyrant defeats another tyrant, doesnt mean he is some kind of a hero.
He just defeated another tyrant. Simple as that.
I notice you are biased, but thats okay, biased goes hand in hand with poor education.
@@nr1NPC No my friend. He had many faults but not as a war leader. He inspired this country to fight against the worst form of tyranny this present generation will ever know.
Churchill gave him 60.
This is the finest example of the English language at war. Heart stirring.
This physically gave me goosebumps. hahaha
He mobilized the English language and sent it to war.
Mosley was the superior orator and not a sIave of the bankers like this drunkard.
Not the "St. Crispin's Day" speech in Henry V?
Was that actually said during the conflict, or is it Shakespeare's genius after the effect?
OMG...Gary Goldman disappears as Sir Winston Churchill. His most famous speech has me in tears still. Churchill's Speech in Parliament can inspire all people who aspire to liberty from now until kingdom come. We will forever fight on the beaches.... As an American, I Love this!
At the same time, the UK held hald the globe oppressed.
“When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
The Bulldog, -Winston Churchill
That's not a quote from Winston Churchill, but from Victor Hugo (from the 1845 essay "Villemain").
Words to live by!
@@pilazpilaz well, fortunately I'm in the age category such that I don't care.
"Sir, I must object to putting you on a plane 'with the bois' headed for Berlin."
"I don't care what you think monty just get me on that damn airplane"
More like Zionist puppet who created the first steps of the great replacement !
"We will ride out the storm of war and outlive the menace of tyranny. If necessary for years; if necessary alone"
RizzleBazzle Britain will never stand alone.
- The Commonwealth
This speech is gold. That line and many others choke me up.. England will never stand alone.. Australia is coming from one way, were coming from the other.. and we're bringing Canada with us.. long live Western democracy. Your American cousins
@@cashcleaner The problem was that, at that time, the Commonwealth could offer very little help.
@@HansLandaNaranja Famines were an unfortunate aspect of Indian existence which Britain could never prevent. They were never engineered however.
@@HansLandaNaranja we survived at the cost of 2.1 million people who were still living in the 1300s good deal imo were going forward not backwards it's called the advancement of the human race.
*"Nations that go down fighting, rise up again. Those that surrender tamely, are finished. "*
_SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL_
Literally Poland
It’s actually pronounced ser in the way the queen proclaims
Well looking at present France he was correct
@Sasuke Uchiha not really Germany is quite powerful right now
That’s Germany in Russia and a nutshell
"I need amunition, not a ride!" has the same vibe
Schopenhauer wrote a book called "Will and Representation"
Churchill said the exact right words , in the exact right order, with the exact right willpower.
Sacred words right there. In the darkest hour the nation came together like a Roman Phalanx, impenetrable, indefatigable.
We have so much to be proud of.
Yeah we really “won” that war
>Roman phalanx
Yea sorry abt that
Hope yall can forgive us
churchill was a nonsense fellow who starved millions of people in india and africa for his stupid war...of course understandable why the west hails him
@@sanjaysriram7294 “Starved people in India and Africa”
*Wrong* - You mean the Bengal famine in India?
That was mass disease, his policies merely enhanced it.
He was partly to blame, but he didn’t starve them.
Especially considering he sent hundreds upon thousands of tons of resources after he found out the situation’s depth.
Stop making lies about him. Enough with that left wing BS.
This wasn't an address to Parliament. It was a promise to the world.
Meester Writer beautifully said.
Nice pfp
Meester Writer
I mean... it was an address to Parliament. But okay
@@MichaelJ44 Of course I forgot radios hadn't been invented and speeches weren't re-read later on. My bad.
British parliament was not broadcast until the 1980s on radio only and TV later.
“We shall never surrender!”
*[Everyone liked that]*
Belgium, France, Netherlands, west Germany, Italy and some other countries
"Hope rises"
Apart from the axis...
A few short years after the war Britain surrendered to the 3rd world when HMS Windrush arrived with a load of immigrants from Jamaica. And they have yet to realize the full extent of their lose.
What’s your problem with immigrants you obviously have no idea what you’re talking about 😂
A truly iconic speech will never be forgotten in Britain. That man had courage, grit and fight to change Britain's fortunes in WW2
Remarkable when you consider that at the same time Churchill kept half the world oppressed and committed unimaginable crimes. British genocidal empire, some American scholars say.
He should have made peace with Germany. WW2 could have been avoided.
@@ecofilm100No. Just no
@@ecofilm100You degenerate. May I remind you that PM Chamberlain went to Munich to sign a peace agreement w hitler along with France and Italy. Shortly after, Hitler broke one of the agreements by invading Czechoslovakia. At first, the allies let it slide. However Poland is a different story.
Just before the war started, the UK, France and Poland signed a mutual defence pact, if one of the countries were attacked by a foreign power, the others would declare war on that country and aid one another. Kind of like what NATO is today. So you and ur snarky comment can piss off.
Look at where Britain is now.
If necessary for years, if necessary alone. As an Englishman, those words mean so much.
impressive.
Same as a Welshman. Once again, I’m assuming that an English person actually means British.
Welsh Ed Yes!
bigkev73 how so?
I’m not English but American , his words bring tears to my eyes. I know what the United Kingdom was going through at that time. Thank God Great Britain and the free world had such a leader as Winston Churchill. He was truly the greatest man of the 20th Century.
“Then, our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British fleet” this fragment, undoubtedly, is the fire that turned the spark on. Touching the strings of the purest British pride.
Such a grandest orator who put the English language in motion into war.
Battered, bloodly, and nearly broken, the British people in all their pride entrenched themselves and sent a message to Mr Hitler, stating "we can do this all day".
"He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle."
Random fact: it wasn't coined the "Battle of the Atlantic" until Admiral Donitz first radioed the line "The Battle of the Atlantic has begun" to his U-boats following Canada's declaration of war (Canada which, despite then-numbering only eleven million people, would be one of only three nations directly responsible for D-Day landings and would field the third largest navy in the world by the end of the war).
@@speakingofreality4886 O Canada which would later freeze bank accounts of brave truckers and their single mother supporters
It's also extremely correct. Germany actually never stood a chance they just got lucky in the start. Churchill is just reminding everyone.
Showed this to my kitten. He’s now a lion.
Love it🐱🦁!
Loved that well done 👍🇺🇸🇬🇧
Genius
Showed it to my dog, now he's a wolf
Showed this to my piper cub. Now it’s a spitfire
Crying, and I’m an American. Much love and solidarity to our closest ally❤
Heartbreaking that in 20 years if we call upon them for solidarity, we will be responded to in not English, but Arabic. England as we remember them has fallen
This speech is awesome. This movie was awesome.
Also American. I think we like Churchill more than the Brits do as a general rule haha.
But he had such a command of the English Language. I read a lot and still to this day, after hundreds of books by the best writers in the world, it's the words of Churchill that have the most power.
@@WE_WUZStop listening to FOX. It's toxic .
grow up then, and stop crying. This is overdramatized, go listen to the actual speech, it's nothing like this. Jeez
@@redwall1521The orginal was never recorded . The " orginal " was many years after
The recorded one would never have got Parliament cheering which is what happend
God damn he was perfect in this role. I had goosebumps
drummerhere when is he never perfect for a role?
drummerhere What about the Real Churchill?
Who is this?
Strongly disagree. Oldman, while an excellent actor, butchered this delicate speech.
The best Churchill I've seen is Brendan Gleeson in Into The Storm.
That speech without a doubt changed the course of history.
Edit - : Wow! 1,000 likes! Cheers!
Well, yes and no. There are a lot of factors.
@@ferrynator15 not rlly that was the speech that decided if we was going to surrender he change last minute
@Megas Pantelos I would urge you to read more on the subject. I don't want to tell you you are wrong, as everyone should have there own opinion. However, even the earnest of Churchill's critics would easily admit Churchill's individual contribution to the war was rather substantial, if at times damaging. To suggest that the Soviet contribution is 'the only thing that changed history' is to make an incredibly facile statement.
Lad you haven't heard my scouse mum going mental at me and my brothers. That's what makes you want to run away an join a battle field anywhere away from her an her mouth
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"national spirit increases 100%"
"War Support 100%"
Stability 100%
PP 2000
Immigration 100%
PP Hard
This gives me chills every single time I watch it.
Sending love to you proud brits from Houston TX
I'm an American and this scene gives me goosebumps because in this moment Churchill & his countrymen vowed to fight win or lose. That's something to be proud of. Long live our best friend, England.
We have blood ties, my friend as we fought together against a force that would have crushed society. So did people in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Canada, Australia and dozens of other countries across the world.
Thanks mate.
Best wishes Stephanie.
If I were American it would give me goosebumps too. Hail the moment when the traitor Churchill decided to turn over the British Empire to the USA without a fight and deviate its formidable military and industrial capacity against an enemy who had never been nor intended to become a threat to it. Well done, Sir Winston.
@@nukni4225 Churchill isn’t a traitor comrade, he sacrificed the empire for a greater good. Either a Brit rules the empire or the empire shall fall all together.
Neville chamberlain's speech fills people with dread.
Winston's fills people with determination and hope
Proud Portfolio And Trumpius' drivel?
Macsen Wledig So Hitler didn’t start WWII, but Tyler Kent did? 🤣😂🤣
Ironically many think Churchill saved Britain but he may have actually destroyed it. Had Neville Chamberlain simply surrendered, the British would have needed to swallow their pride and make a few adjustments but now they would be much better off (with no immigrants).
Chamberlain is sitting there like, "You win, Winston. I give up."
Chamberlain in retrospect did alot behind the scenes to prepare for war. He effectively stalled as long as possible to get industry ready for war.
He was well liked on the domestic front that Churchill appointed him (and trusted him) to run home affairs whilst he dealt with foreign policy and the war cabinet.
As an American I get very proud at the end when he calls on the new world to rescue and liberate the old. We have fallen very far from the days when we would unite and mobilize as a people to defend the ideals we were built on. I sincerely hope one day we can find our way back.
Please take it from an Englishman, that no matter the circumstance or cause, no mater the cost in lives lost or power amassed remember that the Brittan is behind you and with her comes her sons your brothers and we a family that has stood against the tyranny's of the world twice, will gladly raise our spears and bend our body's to the task of defense from any tyranny that would seek to drive us apart.
God save the Queen!
God help us... we’re doing a great injustice to our forefathers who have so much to establish these beautiful lands.
From the words of the King: "Go to the people, they will tell you their mind". So it has always been. Churchill understood that. Too many now fail to listen to the people. The people are the strength of the nation. To subvert it always leads to downfall and failure. History is a relentless and uncaring teacher, one ignores her at dire peril. Churchill studied and understood history as it was. That was his strength.
God bless, you sir, and God bless America. Our 2 nations have been through so much together; truly, we are not exaggerating when we speak of "the special relationship".
it's too late. democracy has failed us
That ending was amazing. Not only was it a rally cry, but a plea for help. It could not have been said better.
United Kingdom gains National Spirit: "We Shall Never Surrender!"
*_War Support +20%_*
*_Political Power Gain +5%_*
*_Ideology Drift Defense +50%_*
*_Recruitable Population Factor +10%_*
What game reference is this ?
@@harryohrt5255 Hearts of Iron IV
@Justinmatthew Perez stability + 100%
Fighter Agility +50%. Fighter Air Attack +50%
Harry Ohrt hoi4 my man
I'm American and I'm crying. One of the most patriotic and inspiring speeches in human history. We love Churchill here in the USA, and we love the United Kingdom! ❤️
As a fellow American, I agree 1000%
Great Britain is our brother
thats cap
Don't forget Carl, Winston Churchill was half American.
@@adamdriver1016 Wut? No way?
Churchill was not a perfect man, but he was what the western world needed.
Mr Fafaa Right you are. No one in history is perfect and even those who did great things also did some questionable ones too. We have to take the bad with the good.
there is only two in this world you and me
No one is perfect, Winston was what he needed to be to win us the war against an even worse man, and in doing so gave us all the right to judge and cast blame and fault.
You mean like we need cancer, he was a terrorist, he commited Genocide, shall I continue.
@@paulgarrett1622 Is there such a thing as redemption?
One of the greatest performence's of all time
One of the greatest and underrated movies of all time
One of the greatest speech's of all time
,,We Shall Fight on the Beaches"
The ''We shall never surrender'' gave me goosebumps
The interesting thing about that passage: in that paragraph "surrender" was the only word he used that was of Norman French derivation (though there were a few words like "ocean" and "subjugated" that came from Greek or Latin by other routes).
As it was intended to, I'd assume
It gave me globalism. Sigh.
@@brucetucker4847 i wouldn't call that interesting
Everyone says we shall never surrender until they surrender.
I can tell that that's not Winston Churchill because I can understand what he's saying.
Agreed, this actor is clearly sober.
Zack Osborn ...exactly what I was about to wright
We new what he was saying in 1939.
The accent just screws it up... But it's still a good crack goddamn it...
Barely.
To grasp the magnitude of Churchill's words you'd have had to have been there at that time.
- The most powerful standing army in the world which has rampaged across the whole of Europe is barely 20 miles away.
- You are completely alone (empire nations excepted). Your main ally the French have just been comprehensively out thought and cut to ribbons by the blitzkreig and your army barely got out alive. You have virtually no heavy weapons left. The country is wide open.
- Your air force is hugely outnumbered and facing almost overwhelming odds against a battle hardened Luftwaffe.
- You have no idea how you are going to defeat the enemy and frankly don't have the capability to even think about it. All you can hope for is to hold out and pray. Victory is a crazy dream.
'Balls of steel' doesn't even begin to do it justice....
@Sainte Jeanne d'Arc 1429 elaborate for me moiseur , how is this aggressive patriotism when it is quite literally what happened to the British ?
He also mentioned U.S.A. where if the British empiree were to fall then they would carry on the fight.
Sainte Jeanne d'Arc 1429 and for good reason. Who held Europe against the axis. France? Oh wait they were knocked out in the space of a few weeks and surrendered. Half of modern France was ruled by Britain for centuries. Your “country” is somewhat a bit older than the USA, with probably as little culture. Before a few centuries ago you were squabbling duchies and before that some naked tribes running away from the Romans. Agincourt was a joke. So yeah. We have justification.
@Sainte Jeanne d'Arc 1429 You don't seem to deny anything I pointed out. At least we can agree that America is a cultural cesspool- devoid of anything cultural.
lol olol the reason you think America doesn’t have culture is because much of our culture has spread to the rest of the western world. We are the biggest producers of entertainment, which made it easy for our culture to spread. Each state, and often the larger cities, in the US has its own culture and history. Our country is set up in a similar way as the Europe Union. You have to think of each state as almost a separate country.
As an American, it is strange that one of the proudest feelings I have for my own nation is not by speech by an American, but by a Brit, saying with prophetic understanding and insight, the last line of this speech: "Until in God's god time the New World, with all its power and might steps forth to the rescue of the Old". This was so true, so necessary, yet we over here did not see it until it was almost too late. Thank God that we did! God bless Britain, and God Bless the United States! Allies and friends forever!
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Yes, but what Churchill didn't understand was that we Germans were or are absolutely not interested in the UK. The UK died in its anti-German hatred, which the English had harboured long before 1914. A nation that ran a genocidal empire for centuries, covered up all its crimes and could only be stopped in two wars. Today, the British are where they belong. At the bottom and only just beginning to come to terms with their many crimes.
Well, better late than never
@@spnhm34we were helping before we got involved directly. The destroyers for bases act gave the British 50 naval ships
Canada was also supplying Britain, even before the Americans "officially" entered the war. Canadian destroyers guarded the lifeline of ships crossing the Atlantic. They carried Canadian food, Canadian munitions, and Canadian troops. And many of the pilots who defended the skies during the Battle of Britain were Canadian.
And yes, we had help from the United States, even when the US was officially neutral. American pilots drove their planes across the border (drove, not flew) and left them for the Royal Canadian Air Force. And many American servicemen enlisted with the Canadian military before the United States offically declared war.
I am a German and I can say to hear and see this most patriotic, famous speech from Churchill gives me every time again goose bumbs
It certainly have hitler those goosebumps.
Ironic
That's a remarkable thing Jack. The German experience after WWII is something I find fascinating and impressive in so many ways. I just wonder if this political self-negation of this most intelligent of peoples has gone too far.
@@jimmyhillschin9987 they are not most intelligent of peoples they are ordinary peoples and peoples are mostly dumb in general
you are an inspiration to so many with this statement
I`m 63 and English, for the first 8 years of my life I was privileged to live at the same time as this truly great man I can remember watching his funeral on TV and as his coffin sailed passed on the Thames the dockers lowering their cranes jibs in salute.
I`m biased of course but to me he was the greatest man of the 20th century.
I'm 73 and remember, too.
I'm only 17, and thus have a much more restricted perspective on events, but I have a great respect for him and his achievements. He certainly wasnt perfect, but as far as I can make out, he was exactly what Britain needed at the time
Yes he was a great Man seeing not only threat of fascist regimes but communist regimes also I'm sure he viewed the fall of USSR. God bless men of vision. " Britannia rules the waves. "
Im not even english and I feel the same way good sir - This man was a giant, a perfect knight in a time when darkness took its hold on Europe.
@@Ragnarswe Thank you Ragnar.
Adolf Hitler: "We will conquer the world"
Winston Churchill: "Pour me a large glass of Brandy"
let me guess you saw my comment on the ERB video
I might be battling you even tho i’m toasted
@Max Smith my parents died when they were young and it was morbid, but at least they didn't ditch me while they were alive like yours did
@@hank780 Oh **** world war 2 soon we'll teddys dropping so you best go hide in your tube
@@miniatureben3558 you should be ashamed of your military honor. Everybody knows you're back at home like "thank god for pearl harbor". Don't worry. The US will give you a pass. Just change you poster to keep calm and kiss my cousin's ***
Gary Oldeman brings this speech to life. Other actors and even Winston himself give a dry delivery.
To be fair the one from Winston himself was recorded years after the speech was given.
I couldn't agree more. I prefer to listen to this version instead of the original.
@@user-kvartz-a8 the 'original'....isn't the original.
It was recorded in 1949 for posterity.
The speech he gave in the commons was far more impassioned by all accounts and more importantly.
It was NOT broadcast.
The original wasn’t dry. It wasn’t recorded, the recorded “original” by Churchill was apparently much less passionate than he was in the commons
How would you know how Winston sounded. What you here and all here is a recording. The real speech was never recorded for security reasons. All films are over dramatic or no 1 would watch them. The train scene did not happen for example.
This is still one of the most moving and profound speeches in all of recorded human history.
- What shall we do now Mr. Churchill?
- Bring me everyone.
- What do you mean everyone?
- Eeeeeeveeeeeeryooooooone!!!
i like these calm little moments before the storm
@Elek They remind me of Beethoven...
Commonwealth Assemble!
"Errrrbody!"
You have just sent a audio😄
Adolf hitler: “why do I hear boss music?”
Bruh Lmao
Dunkirk called and said no
@@jamrocks464 the british got away
Polushka polye~
URAAAAAA
One of the most magnificent performance by an actor I have ever seen on the screen.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill
He mobilised the English language and sent it to battle.
Charles-Olivier Denis poetic..beautiful..
well said.
We didn't have anything else to be honest
he despised the working class
he sent thousands of working class men into certain death and yet because of he had a good command of the English language he has some how become a hero, if he was a hero why did the British public deny him a place in government.
This man was unbelievable. I guarantee that 99 out of 100 people in that position would have chosen to surrender, thank God Winston Churchill was there at that time.
Take it up with God who decided in his ultimate wisdom to preserve his favoured sons with the defence of a moat!
God sent him there, as he places us all on this earth to do something
Why surrender. How would Germany get it’s forces across the channel with the mighty Royal Navy literally in the way.
@@davidpryle3935 they had a massive air force which could assist
@@maxmel1778 They had indeed. But I don’t think an invasion of Britain was ever feasible because of the massive superiority of the Royal Navy. Any invasion force would have met absolute mayhem in the channel. Even if the invasion force succeeded in landing, imagine the problems of re-supplying them.
I can remember as a child hearing that speech 4 the first time and knowing that at the time the UK was totally alone against the awesome German juggernaut and even though I didn't really understand it I listened to it in school. And when I here it as an adult i site there in awe great Britain was so lucky to have that man at that time leading them most men would have surrender thank God he did not!
Wiston Churchill was not a good man. Some may even say that he is a bad man. But, no one can ever deny that he was a Great man.
I wouldn't say he was bad. He saved Britan and possibly the free world.
Edit:he was to complicated of a man do simply pin down to "good" or "bad".
@@richardroberson2564 Certainly. He's also responsible for the death by starvation of 3 million Indians.
@@SamyTessier It has been disproven a million times that he caused that.
@Lang Hansen bad food system built up over generations and the fact thag Japan was invading Bengal, destroying infrastructure.
@Lang Hansen Because its real, they were and are still breeding too much
This is probably the most balls of steel moment of the last century. If you just look at how badly positioned UK was in 1940 you get shoked. The decision to stand up even when the allies were in their knees literally shaped everything since them. Saved the western civilization as we know and shaped the eastern as it would be. The Balls of Steel Award goes to Winston and to the RAF.
Sacrificed half a million British lives, the whole British Empire and all of Britain's gold, so that Germans could get rid of fascism and prosper under the blessings of American style democracy. What a generous man Sir Winston was.
Other empire's fall due to war, revolutions, famines, plague and ect.
The british empire fall to save the world from the fascist.
Nahhh…Israel at the beginning of the 6th day war was…
The allies weren't really on their kness though.. Realistically a German invasion was never possible, and they knew that. It was Germany that was the underdog here, the UK had a whole Empire, and plenty of Allies they could call in. Germany had only what they have taken, and the few allies that pledged their loyalty, and very finite resources. Compared to the allies, this speech would make far more sense given by the Reich chancellery, and it was. It was just forgotten. Because they lost.
@@nukni4225 That is the MOST propagandic British Statement I have ever heard lmao! This was absolutely not about Fascism. It was still just another power struggle. The UK and France have always fought against German hegemony with all their strength. For as long as they have existed as a nation.
Today is the 75th anniversary of the victory in Europe. Let us remember the soldiers, the tankers, the pilots, the sailors, the medical personnel and the men who lead them, lest we forget.
Unfortunately, people seem to be forgetting quite easily.
Soulsphere001 And such a shame it is, to forget people we owe so much to.
@@Able141 "Never in the field of human history has so much been owed by so many to so few." - Sir Winston Churchill
To all those who served and to those who gave their lives for our freedom, thank you. Lest we forget.
We shall remember
The soldiers of the British Empire
The soldiers of the Republic of France
The soldiers of the United States
The soldiers of the Netherlands
The soldiers of Poland
The soldiers of the Soviet Union
The soldiers of China
The soldiers of Italy that turned against Mussolini during the Italian Campaign
And the people who fought in various resistance groups
That last scene where he was walking out got me in tears 😢
The World needs a man like this right now, more than ever before in the past seven decades!
Yes we definitely need or else the old ones would have sacrificed for nothing in ww2
You are absolutely right. The west has become a cartoon of its previous self.
It seems like it no longer has the courage to do what is necessary, to stand for what is right, and to spill blood when needed.
You are right, I hope Velensky is something like Churchill.
exactly! here here
Without starting WW3, sadly, there isn’t much anyone can do.
WW3 wouldn’t end like like WW2.
It would be a nuclear war, and that isn’t in the interest of any country
The US named one of their ships ‘USS Winston Churchill’. You can really see this mans influence on the world
And the navigation officer MUST always be British.
And in the future, we shall name one of our human spaceships “Winston Churchill”. In the event of an alien invasion, it shall defend our planet, whatever the cost maybe.
Well his mother was American so in a way he’s an honorary American
Rosida Andriyana Pardon?
In response to the original comment, that's correct. USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81) is an Arleigh-Burke class destroyer in commission with the United States Navy.
Nancy Astor once told Churchill in Parliament that if he were her husband, she'd put arsenic in his tea. Churchill replied: "Madame, if I were your husband, I would drink it!!"
Some of us wish he had drunk poisoned liquid of some kind.
@@derrickfield8957 why?
Because Churchill was the biggest disaster ever to befall Britain.
Derrick Field And how so?
Max Oakmandel: Because Churchill, more than anyone else, is directly responsible for taking Britain into the two World Wars that caused bloodletting on a scale previously unimaginable. After the first one, in which Britain, France and Russia were unable to defeat Germany, only an idiot could possibly believe that a generation later Britain could defeat Germany alone. The scene is a very good and accurate historical representation and shows not just Churchill but most MPs were suffering from " War Sycosis " and yes it is a recognised mental condition. These people took Britain into a war it could not and subsequently did not win, bankrupting it in the process.
As a french, thank you. Churchill is a great man. He, at least fought till the end, he at least recognized that the french were needed and that they played a great role in Dynamo
Nothing says "You are needed and play a great role" and "we are here to liberate you" better then some pressuring of France (and other nations) to not proceed with peace with Germany after being pushed back to their country after briefly invading Germany via Saar, like some liberating indiscriminate and unrestricted terror bombing campaigns across France/Europe and the civilian populations/cities (such as Paris) that killed more French civilians then British civilians from Germany's bombing in retaliation to Churchill's back to back night bombings against German civilians for three months, or sinking French ships filled with citizens and military personel. Justifying it as "necessary to prevent Germany using their ships to reach Britain." Even though Hitler forced his generals to stand down and let the British at Dunkirk evacuate and return to Britain when Germany could have completely destroyed the trapped soldiers, continued the war by invading a nation that is weakened in strength when they abandoned their equipment at Dunkirk and had to use civilian ships to evacute the British soldiers. Or, captured the stranded and surrounded British troops as POWs and use them to make demands from Britain. Which he never made any demands from Britain or France. The "threatened" people of Britain faced no threat from Germany. Before the war, France also faced no threat from Germany until it invaded Germany. Nor the neutral nations that were used by the Allied powers to launch their invasion of Germany, by invading (in the sense of an unwanted presence of another country's military) those neutral nations. Hitler would have no need to defend his people from invasion by premptively striking and catching them offguard in these countries and pushed them back to their respective countries, if the Allied powers didn't disregard their neutrality and brought the war to their country.
"Since the (British) bombardment of Friborg these objectives are open towns, market places and villages, burning houses, hospitals, schools, kindergartens and whatever else may come their way. Until now I have hardly had any reprisals.
That does not mean this will be or is my only reply. I know that our answer, which will come some day, will bring upon the people unending suffering and misery. Of course, not upon Mr. Churchill, for he no doubt will already be in Canada where the money and the children of those principally interested in the war already have been sent.
For millions of other persons, great suffering will begin. Mr. Churchill, or perhaps others, for once believe me when I predict a great empire will be destroyed, an empire that it was never my intention to destroy or even to harm.
I do realize that this struggle, if it continues, can end only with the complete annihilation of one or the other of the two adversaries. Mr. Churchill may believe this will be Germany. I know that it will be Britain.
In this hour I feel it to be my duty before my own conscience to appeal once more to reason and common sense in Great Britain as much as elsewhere. I consider myself in a position to make this appeal, since I am not the vanquished, begging favors, but the victor speaking in the name of reason. I can see no reason why this war must go on! I am grieved to think of the sacrifices it will claim.
I should like to avert them. As for my own people, I know that millions of German men, young and old alike, are burning with the desire to settle accounts with the enemy who for the second time has declared war upon us for no reason whatever. But I also know that at home there are many women and mothers who, ready as they are to sacrifice all they have in life, yet are bound to it by their heartstrings.
Possibly Mr. Churchill again will brush aside this statement of mine by saying that it is merely born of fear and of doubt in our final victory. In that case I shall have relieved my conscience in regard to the things to come." - Hitler. July 19th, 1940.
"The blood of every single Englishman is too valuable to shed. Our two people belong together racially and traditonally. That is and always has been my aim, even if our generals can't grasp it." - Hitler. On the evacuation of Dunkirk.
"It has come to war. I have done everything within my power here. Everything a man could possibly do, almost to the point of self-abasement to avoid it. I have made offer upon offer to the English. I consulted their diplomats here and pleaded with them to be reasonable. But nothing could be done, they wanted war and they made no effort to disguise it. For 7 years, Churchill has been declaring: "I want war!" I regret that these two peoples must fight with each other, whom I wanted so desperately to bring together. I extended my hand often -- in vain. They wanted this war, now they shall have it! The German Volk will see this fight to the end. The German Volk want to have peace finally. It wants a peace that allows it to be left alone and to work and which does not allow international scroundels to agitate among other peoples against us! These are the same vermin that make their fortune through war. I have no reason to wage war for material considerations. For us, it is but a sad enterprise: it robs us, the German Volk and the whole community of so much time and people. I do not possess any stocks in the armament industry, I do not earn anything in this fight. I would be happy if we could go back to working, like I used to work for my volk. But, these international war scoundrels are at the same time the armament industry's greatest black marketeers! They own the factories! They make the business! They are the same people we had here earlier. I do not desire to wage war but if it is forced onto me, I will wage it till my last breath! I can wage it today because I know the entire volk stand behind me! When this war is over, Germany will begin a great undertaking. A cry of "Arise!" shall echo through the German lands! Then the German volk will abandoned the production of cannons and will begin the labors of peace and rebuilding work for the mass millions! - Hitler.
“We ask no favor of the enemy. We seek from them, no compassion. On the contrary, if tonight the people were asked to cast their votes as to whether a convention should be entered to stop the bombing of all cities, an overwhelming majority would reply ‘No, we will meet out to the Germans, the measure and more then the measure.’” - Churchill.
While British politicians that demanded peace and stopping the bombing of civilians in Germany were silenced in various ways, while citizens that did the same were jailed, and the German officials that risked their lives to fly West and personally hand Hitler's peace offer just to be arrested and thrown in isolation to be forgotten about.
"Imagine the people that say: Oh, in this country there is someone in power who is not to our liking. Therefore, we will just have to wage war against it for the next three years! Naturally, we won't wage it ourselves but we will search the world for someone who will wage it in our stead. We will provide the cannons and grenades to him and he will provide the grenadiers, the soldiers, the men. What recklessness! What would they have said of us had we at one point, stood up and declare: We do not like this regime in power: for instance, let us say France or Britain. Therefore, we will force war upon it now. What utter recklessness! To drive millions of people to their deaths because of that!? There is a conspiracy against the people in this world that knows no scruple in regards to their own people, only selfish desires for themselves and their social class. Let there be no doubt as to one thing: We shall pick up the gauntlets. We shall rid the world of this conspiracy!" - Hitler
Churchill was in debt by the millions before being appointed as Prime Minister. He was chosen because he is a warmonger, his favorite past time was to force their non-white compatriots in Africa and the Middle East to submit to Britain's rule by dropping bombs, using concentration camps to place natives of the continent/country in and starve them to death, 20,000 plus Africans dead. After the war, he was a multi millionaire. I imagine his net worth today would be much higher.
"I am taking on this battle at last. And I am taking it on with the same determination that which I always take on battle: Fight to the very last! They wanted it, they shall have it! They want to destroy Germany from the air! I shall show them who will be destroyed! The English civilians, for which I only have sympathy for, can thank the common criminal Churchill for this! Mr. Churchill, with this war, has started the greatest military nonsense for which any warlord or leader has ever been responsible! He is fighting a war that will, in one way or another, destroy England!" - Hitler. September of 1940 (Not long after Hitler forced his generals to let the British evacuate) , announcing Germany's retaliation after 3 1/2 months of Hitler pleading for peace with Britain and not retaliating in kind. Dropping leaflets containing English translation of his "A Last Appeal to Reason" speech over London and other Britain cities while the British RAF continued to bomb German civlians at night because they couldn't penetrate Germany's air space, beginning in March of 1940 with the British RAF bombing civilians in Dresden, but picked up significantly in August 1940.
Between 1939-1945, the allied powers dropped 3.4 million tons of bombs. Much more greater then Germany’s. Hitler and Chamberlain agreed to no bombing warfare against any civilian population. Hitler was against the use of bombing warfare and detested it. Churchill rejected that agreement upon his appointment to Prime Minister.
This is so British, it colonized my computer (Edit) 8.7k likes, nice
It turned my made in China computer into made in great Britain
@@coolguyx14 Let me rephrase your comment " it took my computer that reads: (made in China) and turned it in to: (made in Hong Kong)".
COLONIZER
You spelled colonise wrong 😉
@@connoroneill9406 colonize
WW2, no matter the politics of Britain at the time they all just came together. Right wing, left wing, liberals and conservatives all came together to win the war. Churchill had his flaws like any man but he was without any doubt the perfect man for the job
Would the liberals, conservatives, and socialists come together today to fight a common enemy? No chance. This country hasn't never been this divided since the English Civil War.
@@stuartcolwell5045 Always feels that way, until the moment of crisis comes. I think you'd be surprised what your nation is still capable of, if it was asked to do it.
@@stuartcolwell5045 In reality, when cornered, the British unite and fight intelligently (radar, Battle of Britain) and with terrible vengeance (Dresden firestorms). Then as soon as the peril has passed, resume bickering amongst themselves. Think about a brother reacts if you attack the sibling he constantly quarrels with.
@Sassysim Not like he requested that the princely states give any food they have in surplus to the Bengal region, which they all refused to do so, or anything,
Humans are tribal, they'll find ways to create division in a group of 10, until they find a bigger common enemy to unite against. If aliens invaded tomorrow, the world would unite together as one, if not then we'll likely declare whatever foreign power is enemy number one for xyz reasons and go on merrily on our way to world war 3.
And now some people want to tear down statues of this giant...
Im from Australia and have more respect for British history then a lot of its current inhabitants
Churchill was 5foot 6.
(Please realise that this is a joke and it's sad that I feel I have to clarify before making one but that's the world we live in/the internet)
There's only one Winston Churchill 💪
Exactly.
The Defender of Democracy in Europe.... So sad how people rewrite history.....
The Cinematography and camera work in this series is wonderful to watch. Close ups, with a pallet of the surroundings. Beautifully made.
I’m a Canadian, a woman, born after WWII ended.
I want to (and plan to) memorize this speech so well that I can put great passion into it. Then I’ll try teaching it to my granddaughters! 🤗🥰
My grandfather was in vaudeville. My Dad in the Canadian navy during WWII.
My mother born, raised and living in Canada til 1941, worked for British Intelligence in the US til the end of the war.
Let me tell you something, Britain could not have survived without her Canadian family.
People want to tear down his statues. He chose to continue the fight against Hitler even after he was offered peace because he understood the evil he faced. One of the heroes of the free world
haha a hero is a bit of a stretch. He wasn't so heroic for people on some parts of the world. But I don't condone this rabid "cancel culture" that's tearing down statues and all.
yeah the hero who hoped Mahatma Gandhi died in the british policy induced bengal famine that killed 3 million people. did not allow grain to be unloaded cause he wanted to create reserve stockpiles in Britain.never really paid back war debt owed to India.
The main reason he did not want to surrender was because he was bankrupt and was put back into stature by bankers on the one condition that he would never surrender, you oaf. Churchill was a severe sell-out, just like the empire was.. claiming they represented "peace" whilst killing millions simultaneously in their colonial dominions.
@@e-dating He offered india and other places independence, he just wanted india to help us because they were the only thing in the way of japan meeting germany from the east and west of them. But any and all country's apart of the empire chose to join the war of their own accord, nobody was forced.
@@aryaaswale7316 I'm a Dutch guy. I hope India will never receive a penny. You do not deserve it. India is not a hair better than the old British Empire. You killed perhaps even more people. Besides that, the people who did this and the people who suffered are all dead. You just want easy money!
*"Sir, this is a Wendy's drive thru..."*
LMAOOOOOOO
AWESOME FUNNY !!!!
@People who Use youtube would you shut up man
@@aangm8681 this is so unpresidential
@People who Use youtube r/woooosh
I went to US Army basic training in Fort Benning in 2017… close to graduation our Drill Sergeants played this very same Speech from the actual Churchill. It was one moment from my army career I will always remember
Any particular reason why? For an American I would have thought if any British speech would make it into the end of training it might be Shakespeare Henry V not this...
@@Delogros because it’s a speech about a man trying to get his country to fight on and not surrender in the face of adversity. No matter who’s it from it’s a good way to motivate people to keep fighting. When I joined the army in 2017 lots of things were going in the world. And here in America lots of leaders are saying we should get less involved even when our Allies ask for help. This was a way to motivate us to keep fighting. It’s the message in the speech that inspired us soldiers here in America
That's one of if not the greatest war time speech in history. His words gave strength and will to his people and the world. His words were heard loud and clear in Washington DC.
As was no doubt the intention.
As was the ones of Hitler were they bringing good nah not always
Theoden King and Aragorn Elessar couldn't have done better.
You dont have to be British to be proud hearing these words. You have to be human.
Lol...proud for what...he starved 3 million Bengalis to death...but it don't matter as Majid killed 1 million Jews who were Europeans....we it's due to Majid that all of our countries are now free...
Take a bow.... desrespect from India
@@ashutoshkumar1960 as if India actually matters. Hahahaha
@@ashutoshkumar1960 if it wasent for churchill the uk would never have survived and germaney would never have been defeated and the Americans and russians would stand alone with all of the uk and her colonels gone
@@ashutoshkumar1960 if it wasn't for churchill you would under the control of germaney
He killed 2.1 million Bengalis ... doesn't sound human to me...
Being french i am very grateful of what the british led by winston churchill did for us during ww2. We are today a country because of this man
Jules De Boni yet you allow invaders wearing sheep’s clothes. They pretend to flee from terror, and yet that is exactly what they bring.
@@ynamaxathey ran from Germany since they got ambushed and then they freed France when they were strong enough
Zxzi
Man I’m talking about so called “refugees”
@@ynamaxa there is no British refugees
The refugees which come to the UK is nothing compared to other countries like Italy
Zxzi I was responding to the first post- the guy being French and all...
The guts, the confidence, the raw emotional power, the complexity of his words, the determination, never giving up, when everything is against you, going to the end, against all odds. A speech to combine it all, this has to be one of the greatest speeches of all time, the situation at hand was too serious. Coming out on top in the end.
It’s sad that people have forgotten just how important this speech was. Now people want to persecute this example of longevity and utmost confidence.
Screw the b.s politics, this is what we rally behind.
to right to many key board warriors spouting garbage you cant use todays Pc logic on a man brought up in the time of Queen Victoria
Yes. It is.
I bet they want to remove him from history because he exerted white privilege
As an American, I LOVE this man more than words can describe. Thank you Brits for standing the line against the ultimate tyranny until we could join in with you 🇺🇸🇬🇧
Unstoppable united 🇬🇧🇺🇸
@@tbow6719 I'm just sorry it took us so long. We had to be goaded into it. But once Roosevelt had his excuse, he opened up ALL the floodgates of industry and might. And - though we were attacked in the Pacific - who did we come to aid FIRST? Our dear friends in the British Isles of course!
As a Mad Dog and Englishman............Let me tell you.........We love you American people.............and will always be eternally grateful for the sacrifices that the American people made in being our "Brothers In Arms" in both World Wars........ until our deserved victory.
@@logandarklighter It wasn't your war to fight. Glad you did in the end, but there was no good reason for young Americans to die because we Europeans couldn't stop warring. Thankfully, it turned out Hitler was more than just another European warlord, and a genuine great evil that transcended continents. Still, it was good of you to step in.
@@richardhorrocks1460 It became our war as well when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and killed 2000 people, and then Germany/Italy declared war on us.
Churchill is inspired by the speech of George Clemenceau, whom he respected a lot. Clemenceau pronounced this during the 1st World War:
"The Germans can take Paris, but that will not stop me from continuing the war.We will fight on the Loire, we will fight on the Garonne, we will fight even in the Pyrenees.And if, in the end, we are pushed back outside the Pyrenees, we will continue the war at sea "
Two great man of the same temper!
Nicknamed ''Le Tigre''
The political leader who most positively influenced his country during the war, and who gained the most prestige from it, is unquestionably Clemenceau. One can not imagine the prestige he has acquired at the end of this world conflict. In France we call it even
"Père la Victoire" in English : Father of Victory .
Churchill was admiring this extraordinary man, and to return to the famous speech, Churchill was present during the speech. And for real, Churchill loses World War I politically speaking. The battle of the Dardanelles is a disaster and it is the main craftsman. His political credit and almost ruined after his.
But it makes her heroic return during the "dark hours" even more magnificent. We do not make any more of her ...
@Rosida Andriyana Churchill has an advantage because today we speak English more than French. But Hitler's rise to power was a direct consequence of Clemenceau's ferocious jingoism against the Germans. Nobody in WW2 came close (and that's not a criticism of Churchill, but realistically it was harder to convince the public to support a new war after their memory of WW1)
@@Sawrattan No, if Clemenceau was allowed to do as he wished by the other allies, Germany would have been splitted into several small states, unable to do any harm.
@@nicolas.p331 because that would've worked right?
Hint, no it wouldn't, it would've ended in the same situation you have seen as the Entente tried to split up turkey.
Fantastic performance by Gary Oldman he was fantastic as Winston Churchill I glad he got the full Oscar for his performance
This was arguably one of the most important speeches by any British politician ever. I love the line by Lord Halifax at the end (not in this clip). Winnie has just mobilised the English language and sent it into battle. When watching this film in the cinema there was an elderly lady sitting a few seats behind me reciting this speech word for word. She was of that generation, whose "finest hour" saved our nation. Winston's great oratory has now become the stuff of history and legend. He was indeed a Titan, shaped by events and shaper of them also. We owe this man a debt of gratitude that is beyond ordinary measure. His memory and honoured place in our island story is assured. We will never see his like again. God bless this man and all he did for our country and the cause of freedom. (By the way, I'm not even a Tory)...
In such a time, political parties in Britain were not important.
You should be
well said
@@DarkMatterX1 No. Because I also recognise that for all Winston's achievements, he and I would have some serious political differences as to how best to run a free and independent country. My point of agreement with him was that we should be in fact be free in the first place to make those choices. I cite you one other example of this man's greatness. When the WW2 was over and we had an election in which the Labour Party won a resounding victory Winston was asked by a somewhat perplexed American reporter how he felt about being rejected by the British People and did he feel they were showing somewhat how ungrateful they were - to which his perfect reply was. Not at all. That's why we fought the war. Brilliant response. Only a true and sincere patriot and democrat could have replied thus. What a statesman? What a man? Wish we had more like him today on all sides of the political divide.
@@williambodin5359 Wrong War, Dude. An "A" for effort though!
This is the finest hour of the darkest hour
Amen to that.
That doesn't make sense
Tay Arslan It does make sense. Clearly you didn’t learn any ww2 history or watch this movie
OutrageousGamer I did, actually. And what does him not making any sense have to do with WW2 or the movie?
Tay Arslan “The finest hour of the darkest hour”. It basically means the greatest hour in that dark time, Germany was planning Operation Sea Lion, the invasion of the British home islands. It makes perfect sense
Rotten Tomatoes describes Oldman’s performance in this movie as “electrifying.” I think that’s the best word they could have used, he knocked it out of the park.
Gary Oldman is one of the very finest actors in all of film history. Right up there with Dustin Hoffman and Johnny Depp.
This guy doing an immaculate version of Winston Churchill has had SO MANY diverse roles, and he excelled in everything he did.
As an Austrian, I can only thank Sir Winston Churchill for this history-changing speech
U dont have to. Your brothers and sisters did it in 38' :D
If necessary for years, if necessary, alone.
A different time, a different place, for a different people.
AMEN!
No. The old spirit is still there. It just sleeps.
We were never alone. The UK was enslaving half the world then.
Mark Harrison oh shut up
lol
Girls Locker Room: I hate PE. Oh my god Samantha is that perfume?
Boys Locker Room: We shall fight on the beaches...
We shall fight on the streets!🔥
We shall fight in the hill
@@assassinarapata7066 we shall fight on the landing grounds
Bruh I'm rolling😂💀
"We shall never surrender!!"
"We shall *never* surrender!" Words to live by. 👏👏