BBC.The.Complete.Churchill English Subtitles

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The whole fury
and might of the enemy
must very soon be turned on us.
 
Hitler knows that he will have
to break us in this island
or lose the war.
If we can stand up to him,
all Europe may be freed,
and the life of the world may move
forward into broad, sunlit uplands.
 
Britain's greatest war leader.
The inspiration he brought
to the country
and the whole war effort.
He was a figure larger than life.
And he had the capacity
to make other people see things
through his vision.
He knew that he had this fantastic
challenge, and you sensed that he
felt a sort of elation about this.
And the energy was unbelievable!
We have before us an ordeal of the
most grievous kind.
We have before us many, many long
months of struggle and suffering.
 
He got contact with, and expressed
the thoughts of, the common man.
He had a very engaging simplicity,
and a sympathy which seemed
to go out to an audience.
You could see the audience being
attracted to him as a man.
The British nation is stirred
and moved as it never has been
at any time in its long,
eventful, famous history.
And it is no happy trope of speech

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On the 10th May, 1940,
as German forces drove into
France, Belgium and Holland,
Churchill became Prime Minister.
He was 65.
I speak to you for the first time
as Prime Minister, in a solemn hour
for the life of our country,
of our Allies, and above all,
of the cause of freedom.
A tremendous battle is raging
in France and Flanders.
The Germans, by a remarkable
combination of air bombing
and heavily-armoured tanks...
Within two weeks of his becoming
Prime Minister,
the German Army had smashed through
the Allied defences in France,
who were in full retreat
before the German Blitzkrieg.
There was no question of surrender.
Arm yourselves
and be ye men of valour
and be in readiness for conflict.
It is better to perish in battle
than to look upon the outrage
of our nation.
It was as if he had been waiting
for this moment all his life,
and as if we had been waiting all
OUR lives for him to come forward.
When you're up against
the threat of defeat,
and when you are standing alone,
then you have to have
someone like Churchill,
who isn't rational, isn't
weighing the chances soberly,
but who is giving rein
to his romantic fantasy life
in his speeches,
who rallies people into becoming
heroes and working twice as hard.
CHEERING
'Now at last the gloves are off.
We must return ten blows
for every one we get.
'The Allied war machine rolls on...'

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In January 1943,
Churchill flew to North Africa
to greet General Montgomery
and to celebrate Rommel's defeat.
He was more than a little proud to
be among the victorious soldiers.
He told them that his directive
to General Montgomery -
brief and very much to the point -
had been "sweep Rommel out of Africa".
The Eighth Army had done so.
In Tripoli, Churchill
took the salute at the first
victory parade of the war.
The Desert Army had proved
that the invincible German
war machine COULD be defeated.
 
It was an awfully good parade.
It was astonishing
that these soldiers could emerge
from the desert looking so superb.
Their kit was obviously
a new issue for the parade.
Both the New Zealanders
and the 51st Highland Division,
who did the two marches
past Churchill and Monty,
they did march
absolutely superbly.
Churchill was obviously very moved.
He stood there
with tears pouring down his cheeks.
It was very moving for everybody.
The final victory in North Africa
took longer than Churchill expected.
 
It took 6 months from Alamein
to a total German/Italian surrender.
Britain was now "master
of the North African shores."
 

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After five years of war, Churchill
was with the allied armies
as they crossed into Nazi Germany.
"Forward on wings of flame to final
victory!" he told the troops.
I got word that Churchill
was coming.
This was because we had captured
part of the Siegfried Line -
the so-called dragon teeth,
the concrete emplacements.
It was on Germany's frontier.
It was both strategic AND symbolic.
 
You were penetrating Germany.
There he was with his cap
and cigar, trooping around
and inspecting
all these tank traps.
And it came time to have a pee.
I was standing right next to him
and I could see the glint
in his eye and this puckish grin
when he said, "Let's do it
on the Siegfried Line!"
And that was absolutely marvellous.
There was all of us lined up -
all these generals and me
and Churchill -
peeing on Hitler's Siegfried Line!
 
Two months later,
in May 1945, Britain was celebrating
the first day of peace in Europe.
We may allow ourselves
a brief period of rejoicing.
Today is Victory in Europe Day.
Tomorrow will also be
Victory in Europe Day.
"Yankee-Doodle Dandy"
 
Strangely enough in this great hour
of victory, when they had been
through so much together,