Darkest Hour
2017 · 2 hr 5 min
PG-137.484%82%74%
In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.
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Directed By
Joe WrightWritten By
Anthony McCartenStudio
Focus Features, Working Title Films, Perfect World PicturesCast of Darkest Hour
Gary OldmanWinston Churchill
Kristin Scott ThomasClementine Churchill
Lily JamesElizabeth Layton
Stephen DillaneEdward Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax
Ronald PickupNeville Chamberlain
Ben MendelsohnGeorge VI
Nicholas JonesJohn Simon, 1st Viscount Simon
Samuel WestAnthony Eden
David SchofieldClement Atlee
Richard LumsdenMajor-General Hastings Ismay
Malcolm StorryGeneral Sir Edmund Ironside
Hilton McRaeArthur Greenwood
Benjamin WhitrowSir Samuel Hoare
Joe ArmstrongJohn Evans
Adrian RawlinsAir Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
David BamberVice-Admiral Bertram Ramsay
David StrathairnFranklin D. Roosevelt (voice)
Jeremy ChildJames Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope
Brian PettiferSir Kingsley Wood
Michael GouldCharles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry
John AtterburySir Alexander Cadogan
Charley Palmer RothwellMiles Aldridge
Hannah SteeleAbigail Walker
Philip Martin BrownSawyers
Nia GwynneAlice Simpson
Faye MarsaySybil
Jordan WallerRandolph Churchill
Mary AntonyMary Churchill
Bethany MuirSarah Churchill
Anna BurnettPamela Churchill
James EelesMaurice Baker
Roisin O'NeillAgnes Dillon
Joanna NearyJerome Margaret
Flora NicholsonJessie Sutton
Richard GloverBrigadier Nicholson
Paul LeonardAdmiral Dudley Pound
Eric MacLennanTom Leonard
Tom AshleyRamsay Staffer
Pip TorrensBBC Producer
Bronte CarmichaelYoung Girl on Train
Patsy FerranMaid
John LockeOliver Wilson
James HarknessAD Nicholl (Secretary #1)
Joshua JamesW D Wilkinson (Secretary #2)
Kieran BuckeridgeCecil Beaton
Adolf HitlerSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
Johnny OttoMember of Parliament (uncredited)
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