Darkest Hour (2017)
1940 · Resource
Gary Oldman's Oscar-winning Churchill through May 1940 — the Norway fallout, the War Cabinet's peace-terms crisis, Dunkirk and the beaches speech. Accuracy note: the Underground scene is invented.
On these timelines: Historical films, Resources: Combined
Around 1940
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)