Gary Oldman and Joe Wright on Winston Churchill -- as an icon and a man
Words, in the new movie "Darkest Hour," are weapons. Set roughly during the same time period as "Dunkirk," between May and June 1940, the World War II drama takes place not on the beaches of northern France, where hundreds of Allied soldiers were cornered by German troops, but in the backrooms of England’s war cabinet. It is there that the newly installed prime minister, Winston Churchill (played by Gary Oldman), struggles with how to rally Parliament and the British people for the coming Battle of Britain.