Darkest Hour

Darkest Hour is on BBC One tonight and Winston Churchill's grandson exclusively shared with Express.co.uk just how historically accurate the Oscar-winning ...

He couldn’t bare the thought of another war and all that death and destruction. That is real courage.” And although Neville Chamberlain is often caricatured as weak and incompetent, he felt the film gave a fairer, more historic look at Churchill’s predecessor. The scene in question sees Churchill board a train to ask regular working people how they felt about the war, what action the government should take and if they were afraid. Gary Oldman famously went on to win the Golden Globe, BAFTA, SAG and Oscar award for Best Actor in his portrayal of the titanic figure, but just how historically accurate is the movie? He was just 16 when his grandfather died and walked behind his coffin at the 1965 state funeral. I didn’t live through the war, so I don’t know what he was like then.