Top-rated
2005
In almost every piece of footage of Britain's great wartime leader Winston Churchill, is an anonymous figure: his bodyguard, Walter Thompson of Scotland Yard. This story tells how these very different characters met, and how the boy from the East End saved his boss from an IRA assassination attempt.
Top-rated
2005
After he became Churchill's bodyguard, Walter Thompson was given the challenge of keeping his boss alive during a visit to the Middle East. A leading British politician was a natural target for assassins and on several critical occasions, Winston was rescued by the enigmatic - Lawrence of Arabia.
2005
Having kept Churchill safe from assassination during a 1931 US lecture tour, Thompson soon left the police force. It also seemed that Winston's career was over. But a sinister new force, which saw Winston as an implacable enemy, was rising, and threats to his life brought the two men together again.
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2005
After returning to government and leading the Admiralty, Churchill ascends to the Prime Minister's post on the very day that Hitler invades the Low Countries. He immediately embarks on an aggressive campaign of personal diplomacy. Much to Walter's worriment, his travels include six trips to France on flights well within range of Luftwaffe fighters.
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2005
The early days of the war bring some of Churchill's most difficult--and dangerous--decisions. As bombs rain down on London, the Prime Minister stubbornly insists on walking the streets among the people, watching air raids from rooftops, and visiting anti-aircraft battalions, with only Walter to protect him from the terror above.
2005
Running a gauntlet of U-boats in the North Atlantic, Churchill and Walter set sail for American in an unescorted ship to plot Allied strategy with Franklin Roosevelt. Disaster comes closest, however, as the Prime Minister prepares to board a flying boat for the trip home and a crazed gunman lurks nearby.
2005
After two Atlantic crossings and two trips across the length of the Mediterranean, Churchill grows increasingly frustrated with Roosevelt and suspicious of Stalin. When the three leaders meet in Tehran in 1943, the Germans launch operation Longjump--a plot in which elite commandoes parachute into the city, bent on assassination.