With the onset of World War II in September 1939, Churchill returns to government as First Lord of Admiralty. With reliable information from a Foreign Office civil servant who feels the government is not accurately reporting on rearmament, he provides accurate figures to Parliament and the tide begins to turn. As he continues to press his concerns about Hitler, he is cast as a warmonger and frequently shouted down in Parliament by members on both sides of the aisle. He has a close-knit group of supporter not the least of whom is his wife Clemmie, who he loves very dearly. He lost a great deal of money in the Wall Street crash and now writes - a biography of his ancestor the Duke of Marlborough, a newspaper column - and it's his only means of support. His was a lonely voice warning about German rearmament and the coming of a second major war on the Continent. In the 1930s, Winston Churchill was out of government, sitting as a backbench MP. Stephen Moyer plays a reporter who is romancing the girl, but has ulterior motives.It has a fantastic setting as well (around Fowey in Cornwall). Martin Clunes (Men Behaving Badly) briefly appears as the Minister of Defence and there’s a surprise appearance by old Labour stalwart Dennis Healey. Angus Deayton plays a delightful cameo as the head of MI5, swinging golf balls at Japanese tourists on the Thames. Prunella Scales (Fawlty Towers) plays the Government’s Minister of Fisheries who is sent to make Wilson’s character, Bill Webster, see some sense. Richard Wilson (One Foot in the Grave) is excellent as the cranky family patriarch and disaffected ex-Lord Chancellor who has the ability to topple a large part of the English Establishment.
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James Fleet (Vicar of Dibley) plays a smooth-talking Tory Prime Minister who eerily resembles Tony Blair - Fleet’s NHS TV ad is particularly well done. Writer/director Guy Jenkin successfully synthesizes a variety of English social, political and cultural themes in this 1996 British TV film. Anna Karenina is a classic revision adapted by Donald Bull and directed by Rudolph Cartier, who sweeps the film to a shocking conclusion. Shunned, heartbroken and trapped by the very love she'd always sought, Anna's actions become ever more desperate. Her actions cause outrage in St Petersburg society and her husband not only refuses her the dignity of a divorce but also prevents her from seeing her beloved son unless she agrees to leave Vronsky forever. Eventually succumbing to his allure, Anna grows to be his mistress. Trapped in a loveless, arranged marriage with the cold Alexei Karenina, Anna tries her best to resist the passionate advances of Vronsky. When the beautiful young aristocrat Anna Karenina (Claire Bloom) meets the dashing Count Vronsky (Sean Connery) at a Moscow railway station, their first encounter is overshadowed by misfortune.
The BBC's triumphant 1961 adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's romantic masterpiece starring Sean Connery and Claire Bloom.
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