"The thrill of history, the agony of defeat: 'Into the Storm,' a new HBO-BBC co-production about Winston Churchill's heroic leadership during World War II, also looks at what has long been a puzzling footnote to the story -- the fact that in 1945, the war over and England saved, a seemingly ungrateful nation rushed to the polls and voted Churchill out of office. "He was prime minister no more -- but would be again, in the early 1950s when, his legend having grown in the postwar period, he was voted back in. The film, however, is much more than a procession of facts and battles; it is a richly emotional story about an astonishing and complicated man and his wife, Clemmie, who excused a great deal of beastly behavior by her husband on the grounds that his country needed him for it to survive. "Many who have accomplished infinitely less have behaved far, far beastlier." washingtonpost.com
There's been a lot of publicity being given to this film. The trailer just seems too "Pearl Harbor"ish to me. A drama set during the war. The one thing that tickles my fancy is the fact that they were using real aircraft, at least in the trailer, versus total CG.
