How Britain's wartime leader and its only ever movie mogul changed the course of history.How Britain's wartime leader and its only ever movie mogul changed the course of history.How Britain's wartime leader and its only ever movie mogul changed the course of history.
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Dilly Barlow
- Self - Narrator
- (voice)
Ian Beyts
- Winston Churchill
- (voice)
Charles Chaplin
- Self
- (archive footage)
Winston Churchill
- Self
- (archive footage)
María Corda
- Self
- (archive footage)
Joseph Goebbels
- Self
- (archive footage)
Pamela Harriman
- Self
- (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
- Self
- (archive footage)
Leslie Howard
- Self
- (archive footage)
Joseph P. Kennedy
- Self
- (archive footage)
Alexander Korda
- Self
- (archive footage)
Vivien Leigh
- Self
- (archive footage)
Charles A. Lindbergh
- Self
- (archive footage)
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Winston Churchill: "... Henry VIII" I consider a magnificent production. Fully deserving of the great success it has achieved. My only criticism would be: a little less chicken bone chewing and a little more England building.
- ConnectionsFeatures The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
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Cautionary tale for media consumers
Interesting look at war monger Winston Churchill's use of media to get as many of Empire's farmboys pointlessly killed fighting somebody (turned out to be the Hun).
Churchill was, I dunno, bored after being disgraced by his blunders at the Dardanelles (aka Gallipoli) in The Great War. He hadn't seen enough of his soldiers slaughtered, I guess. So he was boning for sequel with Germany from the back benches of the English Parliament in the 1930s.
He hooked up with Hungarian movie-making refugee Alexander Korda, who had reinvented himself as a proper English gentleman. Korda was responsible for a few barely disguised propaganda films that helped to whip the LImeys into a fighting frenzy. I guess it worked. Churchill got his war to get more of his - and more regrettably - the British Empire's farmboys pointlessly killed on European soil.
Meanwhile, Americans mostly hated Britain and didn't want any part of Churchill's war lust. The catchphrase was ''America First." Ring any bells? Sadly, the Korda/Churchill tagteam - if we are to believe this documentary - made Lady Hamilton starring fake husband/wife Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh.
Apparently it worked. Many dead American farmboys ensued.
Cross-dressing civil-rights abuser J. Edgar Hoover had his FBI investigate Hollywood propaganda in general, and Korda in particular. Probably what today we call ''controlled opposition" since it didn't hold back America's authoritarian war-monger Franklin Roosevelt from maneuvering the U. S. into the killing fields in Europe or Asia.
None of this surprised me. I mean, who doesn't watch The Scarlet Pimpernel, That Hamilton Women, Fire Over England or The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, etc., and fail to realize that they are pro-war propaganda? Nevertheless, the valuable lesson is that media in general and Hollywood in particular have a lot to answer for. Keep that in mind when Tom Hanks, Stephen Spielberg, CNN, MSNBC, the NY Times or Washington Post are beating the war drum against (2022 enemy du jour is Russia but it's always gonna be somebody) or cranking out yet another film celebrating American soldiers' heroism in battle.
We are dupes.
Churchill was, I dunno, bored after being disgraced by his blunders at the Dardanelles (aka Gallipoli) in The Great War. He hadn't seen enough of his soldiers slaughtered, I guess. So he was boning for sequel with Germany from the back benches of the English Parliament in the 1930s.
He hooked up with Hungarian movie-making refugee Alexander Korda, who had reinvented himself as a proper English gentleman. Korda was responsible for a few barely disguised propaganda films that helped to whip the LImeys into a fighting frenzy. I guess it worked. Churchill got his war to get more of his - and more regrettably - the British Empire's farmboys pointlessly killed on European soil.
Meanwhile, Americans mostly hated Britain and didn't want any part of Churchill's war lust. The catchphrase was ''America First." Ring any bells? Sadly, the Korda/Churchill tagteam - if we are to believe this documentary - made Lady Hamilton starring fake husband/wife Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh.
Apparently it worked. Many dead American farmboys ensued.
Cross-dressing civil-rights abuser J. Edgar Hoover had his FBI investigate Hollywood propaganda in general, and Korda in particular. Probably what today we call ''controlled opposition" since it didn't hold back America's authoritarian war-monger Franklin Roosevelt from maneuvering the U. S. into the killing fields in Europe or Asia.
None of this surprised me. I mean, who doesn't watch The Scarlet Pimpernel, That Hamilton Women, Fire Over England or The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, etc., and fail to realize that they are pro-war propaganda? Nevertheless, the valuable lesson is that media in general and Hollywood in particular have a lot to answer for. Keep that in mind when Tom Hanks, Stephen Spielberg, CNN, MSNBC, the NY Times or Washington Post are beating the war drum against (2022 enemy du jour is Russia but it's always gonna be somebody) or cranking out yet another film celebrating American soldiers' heroism in battle.
We are dupes.
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