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Churchill: The Nation's Farewell

Name: Churchill: The Nation's Farewell
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2015-01-30
Duration: 1 h
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Jeremy Paxman, Louise Baker, Boris Johnson

TV Movie
2015
1h

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6.7/10

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On the 50th anniversary of Winston Churchill's death, Jeremy Paxman tells the story of his state funeral and examines whether Churchill's immense legacy still has resonance today.On the 50th anniversary of Winston Churchill's death, Jeremy Paxman tells the story of his state funeral and examines whether Churchill's immense legacy still has resonance today.On the 50th anniversary of Winston Churchill's death, Jeremy Paxman tells the story of his state funeral and examines whether Churchill's immense legacy still has resonance today.

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6.7/10

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Jeremy Paxman

Self - Presenter

Louise Baker

Self - Archivist, Madame Tussauds

Boris Johnson

Self - Author, 'The Churchill Factor'

Celia Sandys

Self - Churchill's Granddaughter

Allen Packwood

Self - Director, Churchill Archives Centre

Nicholas Soames

Self - Churchill's Grandson
(as Sir Nicholas Soames)

Jane Portal

Self - Churchill's Secretary, 1949-55
(as Lady Williams)

Martin Bell

Self - Former BBC Journalist

Anthony Mather

Self - Officer in Charge, The Bearer Party
(as Lt Col Anthony Mather)

Lincoln Perkins

Self - The Bearer Party

Richard Dimbleby

Self - Funeral Commentator
(archive footage)
(voice)

Jim Phillips

Self - Bell Ringer, St Paul's Cathedral, 1965

Peter Wilson

Self - Trumpet Corporal, Household Cavalry, 1965

Basil King

Self - Trumpeter, Queen's Royal Irish Hussars, 1965

Chris Ryland

Self - Owner, Havengore

John Lynch

Self - Dock Worker, 1965

Jim Lester

Self - Fireman, Churchill Funeral Train

Frank Hall

Self - Verger, St Martin's Church, Bladon, 1965

Director
- John Hayes Fisher
Writer
- Jeremy Paxman
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[closing words]
Jeremy Paxman: History isn't made by great men. But sometimes a man or woman may so come to express the spirit of the age that they *become* great. Winston Churchill was such a figure. He looked a bit like a bulldog and, when the nation needed it, he expressed the determination of a bulldog. Sure, he was a chancer, an egotist, a workaholic and sometimes a bit of a charlatan, but in this age of political miniatures, there is no-one who can hold a candle to him. For the sake of the nation we must hope that the old cliché about never seeing his like again isn't true because, one day, we may need his like again. But in the fifty years since his death, there has been no sign of such a figure.