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Narrator: This is the story
of britain's greatest leader,

Seen in color
for the first time.

[gunfire]

A born fighter,
he's drawn to the sound of guns.

[gun firing]

The first world war
tests his skills...

[gunfire]

...And his character.

Winston churchill:
I have nothing to offer

But blood, toil,
tears, and sweat.

Narrator: He is a maverick
who makes catastrophic blunders.

Rarely seen home movies

Record his ups...

And downs...

[gunfire]

...Peaking as prime minister
in the crucible of world war ii.

He boosts morale
and national resolve

In britain's darkest hour...

Churchill: We shall fight
on the beaches.

We shall fight on
the landing grounds.

We shall never surrender.

Narrator:
...Leading britain to victory.

Churchill: Advance britannia.

Long live the cause of freedom.

Narrator:
And cementing his place

In the nation's heart.

This is the story
of winston churchill,

As you've never seen it before.

♪

Princess elizabeth: ...I'll be
devoted to your service.

♪

Narrator: 1942.

El alamein, egypt.

[guns firing]

British forces
begin to beat back

German troops
occupying north africa.

It's a decisive moment
in world war ii.

Churchill: A bright gleam

Has caught the helmets
of our soldiers

And warmed and cheered
all our hearts.

Narrator:
Prime minister winston churchill

Delivers the news
at a lunch at mansion house,

The lord mayor's
residence in london.

Churchill: Rommel's army
has been defeated.

Narrator: Inside and out,
people hang on every word.

Churchill:
Now, this is not the end.

It is not even
the beginning of the end.

But it is perhaps
the end of the beginning.

[applause]

Narrator: Churchill
is nearing his zenith,

A journey he's been on
for 68 years.

♪

As a boy, winston leonard
spencer churchill

Loves all things military.

He marshals
brigades of toy soldiers

In the sprawling grounds
of his ancestral home,

Blenheim palace,

Where he was born
on November 30, 1874.

His father randolph

Is a maverick
conservative politician.

His mother, jennie jerome,
here with two-year-old winston,

Comes from a wealthy
american family.

Even aged 16,

Churchill is already certain
destiny has chosen him.

He tells a friend,
"I see into the future.

I shall save london and England
from disaster."

It seems unlikely.

He fails the entrance exam
at the royal military academy

At sandhurst twice
before finally enrolling at 18.

His military training
will serve him well

Through his long
and varied career.

1899.

South africa.

[gunfire]

Films capture
british highlander troops

Fighting descendants
of dutch settlers,

Known as boers,

For control of the colony.

Eager for action and glory,

Churchill, just 25,
heads to the frontline

As war correspondent
for the morning post.

His skill as a writer

Makes him the highest paid
journalist there,

Earning 250 pounds a month--

A staggering
25,000 pounds today.

[whistle blows]

On November 15,

He's aboard a british
armored train on a scouting run

When boers derail
and attack the locomotive.

Churchill is captured.

After 27 days
imprisoned in pretoria,

He stages a daring escape.

♪

The boers offer 25 pounds
for his capture.

But over 11 days,
trekking 300 miles,

The fugitive evades the foe.

The escapes makes him
a national hero.

[cheering]

Back in britain, churchill
turns his newfound fame

Into political office.

In October 1900,

The 25-year-old
is elected conservative mp

For oldham in lancashire.

This busy mill town is home
to 35,000 cotton workers.

Churchill now represents
ordinary working men and women.

He begins to call
for social reform.

Four years later, he defects
and boldly joins the liberals.

[mendelssohn's wedding March
playing]

September 12, 1908.

St. Margaret's, westminster.

It's churchill's wedding day.

He's marrying clementine hozier.

She's from an established
liberal family

And will be her husband's rock
and social conscience.

His star rises.

By 1910, churchill
is home secretary,

In charge of prisons
and the police,

And about to face
his first crisis.

Early on January 3, 1911,

200 police officers besiege
a house on sidney street

In east london.

Inside are three anarchists
who have killed policemen.

[gunfire]

[gunfire]

Churchill makes the newsreels--
a personal first--

By edging close
to the firing line.

[gunfire]

Controversially,
he deploys the scots guards.

For six hours,
the sides exchange shots.

[gunfire]

Hundreds gather
to witness the firefight.

Eventually the hideout
catches fire,

And two of the three robbers
burn to death.

Critics fault churchill
for using excessive force.

But his no-nonsense approach
means the siege of sidney street

Builds his reputation
as a military man.

That October, aged 36,

Winston churchill is named
first lord of the admiralty,

The royal navy's political head.

♪

The former soldier
takes to navy life,

Often sailing the admiralty
yacht, enchantress,

To visit bases and warships.

Churchill and king george v

Inspect hms new zealand
at portsmouth.

Churchill warns the king

That germany is expanding
its navy for war.

He persuades the government

To modernize and reshape
the royal navy.

He commissions
super-dreadnoughts,

The latest and fastest
battleships.

♪

By 1914, europe is at war.

Outside buckingham palace,

King george and queen mary

Review british, australian,
and new zealand troops.

Below the podium,

Churchill doffs his hat
in salute.

The first lord
orders the british fleet

To sail with all speed
to the north sea

To prevent a german invasion.

[guns firing]

[explosion]

February 19, 1915.

The dardanelles strait.

This 38-mile waterway
links europe and asia.

The strait also controls
access to constantinople--

Today, istanbul--

Capital of the ottoman empire,

A german ally.

Hoping to weaken
the ottoman turks,

Churchill authorizes
a naval assault.

[firing]

He badly miscalculates.

The turks sink
three allied ships,

Killing 700 men.

The war cabinet
pushes to withdraw.

Ignoring political
and military advice,

Churchill throws another 30,000
australians and new zealanders

At the gallipoli peninsula

On the north shore
of the dardanelles.

In nine months of fighting,
46,000 men perish.

Stubbornly, churchill
stands by his actions.

But gallipoli, infamous
as "churchill's folly,"

Will haunt him
for the rest of his days.

Disgraced, he resigns
from government.

Clementine thinks
he might die of grief.

But within a year,

Churchill hungers
to return to office.

He and clementine attend
an event in chelmsford

To raise money
for scottish prisoners of war.

[boom]

His reputation
as a speaker is growing.

10,000 come to hear him.

"we must not weaken
our resolve," he tells them.

"whilst the germans
may be reeling,

They are not beaten.

Far from it."

♪

In 1916, with the war
still raging,

New liberal prime minister
lloyd george

Forms his cabinet.

At some personal risk,

He appoints churchill
minister of munitions.

In his new role,
he tours factories

Like manchester's
westinghouse works,

Which makes trains
for the war department.

Churchill's job is to keep
allied armies shooting,

Supplying more than
50 million shells a year.

This is a day's supply of rounds
for a single gun.

By 1918, as the tide turns
against the central powers,

Churchill visits
liberated areas in France.

He goes to lille for a parade
by the 47th london division.

Never far from the action,

He takes up position
on the saluting base.

Fourteen days later,
an armistice ends the war.

Back in london,

Churchill survives the shift
to a peacetime cabinet.

But once again,

His maverick tendencies
lead him to a fall.

Trafalgar square, london.

On March 19, 1924,

With the liberals
tilting sharply left,

Churchill stands
as an independent

In the westminster
by-election...

And loses.

In that October's
general election,

He again crosses party lines.

In epping,
he rejoins the conservatives

And wins--

Part of a wave bringing
that party back to power.

But fellow mps
mistrust his disloyalty.

They protest when conservative
prime minister stanley baldwin

Names him chancellor
of the exchequer.

Churchill's new office

Is one door down
from 10 downing street.

The war has wrecked
britain's economy.

With no previous experience,

Churchill takes an enormous
and controversial risk.

To steady
the fluctuating currency,

He returns britain
to the gold standard,

Linking the pound
to the price of gold.

It will be a disastrous move.

Britain's limited gold reserves
render the pound overvalued.

It means goods like coal,
britain's biggest export,

Cost too much to sell abroad.

Miners balk
at the resulting pay cuts.

Unemployment rises.

On may 4, 1926,

1.7 million workers
join a general strike,

Paralyzing britain.

The military has to step in
to deliver milk and food.

Critics call churchill
the worst chancellor ever.

Churchill says he's inclined
to agree with them.

His gold standard decision

Leads to the conservative
defeat in 1929.

Churchill remains an mp,

But has held his last
ministerial office for a decade.

The wilderness years begin.

♪

In August 1929,

Churchill crosses the atlantic
to his mother's homeland

For the first time
in almost 30 years.

He's supposed to be
on holiday in america,

But uses the trip to promote
his book about the great war.

Brother jack brings along
a movie camera.

The churchills stay
at white eagle,

The long island home

Of their cousin,
frederick edward guest,

And family.

In california,

Tycoon and politician
william randolph hearst,

To churchill's left,

Hosts the author
and studio boss louis b. Mayer.

Actor-director charlie chaplin
welcomes his countryman

On the set of "city lights" at
his studios on sunset boulevard.

Chaplin's crew
films his visitors--

Churchill,

Son randolph, right,
and at left,

British ambassador
alexander moore.

For once, churchill
is happy to be upstaged.

In a letter to clementine,

Churchill describes chaplain
as "a marvelous comedian,

Bolshie in politics
and delightful in conversation."

Back in britain,

Churchill delivers
a newsreel message

To his american hosts.

Churchill: In every part
of the united states

I have found a friendly welcome,

And I find it a matter
of absorbing interest

To travel about
throughout this vast land.

♪

Narrator: At home, now 60,

Churchill retreats to chartwell,
his residence in kent.

He says with
his happy family around him,

He dwelt at peace...

Reflecting, recharging,

And planning how to battle back
into public life

From an all-time low.

This amateur film,

Thought to be shot
by his friend lord cherwell,

Captures churchill
and son randolph

Away from the ups and downs
of politics.

With his children, churchill
enjoys the swimming pool

He's just built.

Happy moments against a backdrop
of his infamous black-dog moods.

♪

Escaping to the french riviera
with family and friends,

He starts writing a second book
about the great war.

Randolph and daughter diana
join him.

Another guest
is aristocratic socialite

Doris castlerosse.

Decades later, rumors circulate

About both winston
and son randolph

Having an affair with her.

But in this footage,
no one seems worried

About being caught
with their pants down.

In 1935,
epping re-elects churchill,

Though he still holds
no cabinet post.

Churchill: I'm very glad
to begin my fourth contest

For the epping division,

And in an election
of such momentous consequence

To our country,
both at home and abroad.

[cheering]

Narrator: German belligerence
and the growing shadow of war

Consumes him.

[crowd chanting and cheering]

However,
prime minister stanley baldwin

Opposes rearming britain.

Stanley baldwin:
I will never stand for a policy

Of great armament.

And I give you my word,

And I think
you can trust me by now.

Narrator: Churchill,
here in essex, disagrees

And argues tirelessly that
britain must prepare for war.

Churchill: Many people think
that the best way to escape war

Is to dwell upon its horrors.

But how would it help us

If we were attacked
or invaded ourselves?

That is the question
we have to ask.

Narrator: His predictions
will come all too true

And all too soon.

When neville chamberlain
becomes prime minister in 1937,

Germany is openly aggressive.

In munich the following year,

Chamberlain
negotiates with hitler.

The prime minister returns,

Brandishing a scrap of paper
promising "peace in our time."

Chamberlain: Here is the paper

Which bears his name upon it
as well as mine.

[cheering]

Narrator:
Less than a year later,

Germany reneges
and invades poland.

[bell tolling]

September 3, 1939.

After three years
of appeasing hitler,

An ill-prepared britain
declares war on germany.

Churchill is vindicated.

Chamberlain invites the veteran
into his war cabinet

To serve as first lord
of the admiralty again.

A few weeks later, ever eager
to put himself forward,

Churchill addresses the nation.

Churchill: We are in
a very different position

From that we were in
ten weeks ago.

We are far stronger
than we were ten weeks ago.

We are far better prepared

To endure the worst malice
of hitler and his huns

Than we were at the beginning
of September.

[guns firing]

[explosion]

Narrator: The worst comes.

Germany invades neutral nations
denmark and norway

With ground troops
and its luftwaffe air force.

For years,
governments have ignored

Churchill's warnings
about german air power.

Denmark surrenders.

And after only nine weeks,
norway falls, too.

The conservatives turn
on neville chamberlain,

Forcing him out on may 10, 1940.

Reflecting popular will
and despite cabinet opposition,

Churchill is appointed
prime minister.

It's as if his whole life has
been building up to this moment.

He later writes that he was
"walking with destiny."

Three days into the job,

He addresses
the house of commons.

As always,
he's ready for a fight.

Churchill:
I have nothing to offer

But blood, toil,
tears, and sweat.

You ask what is our aim?

I can answer in one word.

Victory.

Victory at all costs.

Victory in spite of all terror,

Victory, however long and hard
the road may be.

For without victory,
there is no survival.

Narrator: This tenacity
earns him the nickname

"british bulldog."

But his confidence seems to fly
in the face of reality.

[explosions]

[gunfire]

German troops are advancing
on France's northern coast,

Threatening allied forces.

At dunkirk,
over 300,000 troops are stranded

And facing annihilation.

A desperate churchill
calls civilian boats

To join allied warships
to cross the channel,

Defying
the relentless luftwaffe.

He rallies his nation by radio.

Churchill:
We shall fight on the beaches.

We shall fight
on the landing grounds.

We shall fight in the fields
and in the streets.

We shall fight in the hills.

We shall never surrender.

Narrator: The miracle of dunkirk

Momentarily lifts
britain's spirits.

But the germans are closing in.

[cheering]

On June 14, 1940, paris falls.

Hitler rejoices.

France capitulates to germany.

Churchill is certain britain
is the reich's next target.

[gunfire]

[explosion]

German bombers blitz britain
night after night

For eight months.

As the country burns,

Churchill once again
turns to his words

To inspire a beleaguered nation.

Churchill: Though fury
and might of the enemy

Must very soon be turned on us,

Let us therefore
brace ourselves to our duties.

If the british empire
and its commonwealth

Last for a thousand years,

Men will still say
this was their finest hour.

Narrator: But the prime minister
is clearly shocked

By the ruins
of coventry cathedral.

Still, he maintains
a fierce public presence.

Bombed-out londoners cheer
their tenacious leader.

Police restrain the crowds.

But one woman
breaks through the cordons

To get an autograph.

Churchill works tirelessly,

But with 43,000 civilians dead,

Britain is teetering
on the edge of defeat.

Desperate for help,
on August 9, 1941,

Churchill sails west
aboard hms prince of wales.

Off newfoundland,

The prime minister boards

U.S. Navy cruiser
uss augusta.

He's there to meet with
president franklin d. Roosevelt.

Handing him a letter
from king george,

Churchill initiates a series
of crucial meetings

That occur throughout the war.

Roosevelt wants to help britain,

But americans are wary of
joining another european war.

Churchill fears
that without america's might,

Britain will fall.

When the japanese bomb
pearl harbor a few months later,

America finally enters the fray.

♪

Churchill: Now we are not alone.

We have mighty allies.

We shall drive on to the end
and do our duty, win or die.

Narrator: He heads
straight back to america

To meet president roosevelt

And cement his relationship
with the nation and its leaders.

[applause]

As a mark of respect
and urgency,

Congress invites churchill
to address a joint session.

Churchill: It is not given to us

To peer into the mysteries
of the future.

Still I avow my hope and faith,

Sure and inviolate,

That in the days to come

The british and american peoples

Will, for their own safety
and for the good of all,

Walk together in majesty,

In justice, and in peace.

[applause]

Narrator:
With america in the fight,

Churchill believes victory
is now within their grasp.

♪

February 1943.

Tripoli, libya.

Soldiers at castel benito field

Crowd around churchill's
commando liberator.

Wearing an honorary raf uniform,

The prime minister congratulates
general bernard montgomery

On his triumph
at el alamein in egypt,

A battle that has
turned the tide

Against the axis powers.

Churchill watches
the celebratory parade

From a saluting base.

He later writes,

"before el alamein,
we never had a victory.

After alamein,
we never had defeat."

[train whistle blows]

A huge reception
marks his return

From his north africa tour.

Wife clementine, brother jack,
and cabinet ministers

Greet the prime minister.

Grandson julian
is happiest of all.

Newly confident crowds
cheer their war leader

As he heads back
to 10 downing street

Before his next trip abroad.

November 28, 1943.

Tehran, capital of iran.

It's been two years since hitler
invaded the u.S.S.R.

At the soviet embassy,

Churchill meets
marshall joseph stalin

With president roosevelt.

The big three begin what will be
a series of conferences

On how to win the war
and organize a peaceful europe.

Working closely
with general dwight eisenhower,

Commander of american forces
in europe,

Churchill, cigar in hand,
plans the liberation of France.

[guns firing]

On June 6, 1944,

Nearly 7,000 allied ships
and landing craft

Cross the english channel.

As ever, churchill is desperate
to accompany the fleet,

But is forbidden
by his great friend,

King george vi.

The vessels land

156,000 american, british,
and canadian soldiers

Along a 50-mile stretch
of normandy,

Undertaking one of history's
largest military assaults.

Churchill's vision of victory
is coming true.

As the frontline shifts,

The war leader,
with general montgomery,

Visits the rhine city
of remagen.

Only days before,
american troops captured

One of the last standing bridges
across the river.

Ever the daredevil,
churchill persuades montgomery

To join him aboard
an amphibious vehicle.

The two cross
into enemy territory

For thirty minutes.

[cheering]

A delighted churchill
returns unharmed.

It's his last tour
of a battlefield

Before world war ii ends.

[bell tolling]

May 8, 1945.

A huge crowd celebrates victory
in trafalgar square.

The prime minister is to give
an historic broadcast.

Churchill:
The german war is at an end.

Advance britannia.

Long live the cause of freedom.

God save the king.

[cheering]

Police struggle
to control joyous citizens

As churchill leads mps
to st. Margaret's, westminster,

To attend a victory service.

Up and down the country,

Britons begin
two days of celebrations,

With street parties,
dancing, and singing.

Crowd: ♪ once you live down
lambeth way ♪

♪ any evening, any day ♪

♪ you'll find us all ♪

♪ doing the lambeth walk, oh! ♪

Narrator:
After years of rationing,

And fond of
a drink or two himself,

Churchill gets assurances
from the ministry of food

That there's
enough beer for all.

Tens of thousands
make their way down the mall.

They've come to see
their war hero

With the royal family

On the balcony
of buckingham palace.

[applause]

Among many great moments,

This is the greatest

In winston churchill's
exuberant life.

[cheering]

On may 23, 1945,

Churchill dissolves
the war cabinet.

Confident of the outcome,

He calls the first
general election in a decade.

The conservatives
build their campaign

Around him
and his wartime valor.

He criss-crosses the country,

Convinced
of the nation's support.

He urges them to help him
finish off japan.

Churchill:
For the sake of the country

And of your own happiness,

I call upon you to March with me
under the banner of freedom.

Narrator: On election day,
25 million people vote.

So do millions of servicemen
in the field.

Collection of absentee ballots
delays the count.

Churchill spends
the three-week interim

Relaxing in the south of France.

As a diversion, he paints,

One of his favorite hobbies.

But mediterranean scenes
cannot muffle thoughts

Of the ballots stacked at home.

The count begins.

Churchill is re-elected
as an mp.

But in a shock result,

The war-weary voters
turn out the conservatives.

A campaign for peace
and a welfare state

Has put labour on top
by a landslide.

Clement attlee: The country
is ready for a new policy

To face new world conditions.

Narrator: Churchill says
the power to shape the future

Has been denied him.

In peacetime,
no one needs a war hero.

King george names clement attlee
prime minister.

As leader of the opposition,
a role he loathes,

Churchill looks instead
to the world stage.

[cheering and applause]

Americans still love him.

He travels there in March 1946
to a hero's welcome.

President harry truman welcomes
the lion of british politics

To fulton, missouri.

30,000 people
descend on the town

Where churchill will give
yet another historic speech.

Truman: It's one of the great
privileges of my lifetime

To be able to present to you
that great world citizen,

Winston churchill.

[applause]

Narrator: The man of the hour

Does not disappoint the audience
at westminster college.

Churchill: The name westminster

Somehow or other
seems familiar to me.

[laughter]

Narrator: Jokes aside,
he turns to graver matters.

He popularizes
the definitive phrase

Of the post-war era.

Churchill:
From stettin in the baltic

To trieste in the adriatic,

An iron curtain has descended
across the continent.

Narrator: To guarantee peace
and check soviet ambitions,

Churchill believes
the continental european states

Must unite.

In 1948, as honorary president,

He attends the congress
of europe in the netherlands.

He passionately urges
800 delegates

To work towards
a united states of europe.

Churchill: We cannot aim
at anything less

Than the union of europe
as a whole,

And we look forward
with confidence

To the day when that union
will be achieved.

Narrator: At home, britons
see him as a world statesman

But write him off
as a domestic force.

But the british bulldog
will be back.

♪

October 4, 1951.

London.

Labour calls an election.

In liverpool, churchill arrives
to cheering thousands.

He launches
the conservative campaign.

[cheering]

At 76, churchill
still has the power

To inspire crowds
and win elections.

Churchill: We are the same
people on the same island

As we were in the great days
we can all remember.

Never shall we lose
our faith and courage,

And never shall we fail
in exertion and resolve.

[cheering and applause]

Narrator:
After a conservative victory,

King george vi

Names churchill
prime minister once more.

[cheering and applause]

Enthusiastic crowds
greet him at 10 downing street.

But not everyone thinks
he's up to the job.

There's talk he's senile,
unable to lead.

Health issues will dog
churchill's second premiership.

In December 1953,
amid cold war tensions,

Churchill flies to bermuda
for talks with western allies.

The greeting committee
is governor sir alexander hood

And billie the goat,

Mascot of the royal
welsh fusiliers.

Next to arrive
is french premier joseph laniel.

Hours before
the conference begins,

The american
presidential plane lands.

Churchill welcomes
his former wartime associate,

Now president dwight eisenhower.

Talks about the rising threat
of the soviet union

Take place privately
at the mid ocean club.

But eisenhower ignores
churchill's calls

For caution and diplomacy.

Britain's empire is crumbling.

The country
is fast losing status.

The once revered leader
is almost obsolete.

[drumming]

Westminster hall.

November 30, 1954.

Drummers beat churchill's
trademark "v for victory" salute

In morse code.

It's his 80th birthday.

2,500 guests attend
the televised celebration.

Clementine, his partner
in triumph and failure,

Is by his side.

Clement attlee pays tribute
to his formidable opponent.

Attlee: You will realize
that I should be in breach

Of my duty
as leader of the opposition

Were I to wish you
long continuance

In your present office.

[crowd laughs]

But may I hope that you will
live to see the beginnings

Of an era of peace in the world

After the storm which has been
your lot to encounter.

I ask you to accept
this portrait.

[cheering]

Narrator:
The painting is the work

Of noted british artist
graham sutherland.

Churchill famously hates it.

Churchill: It's a remarkable
example of modern art.

[crowd laughs]

Narrator: He is resentful
of being shown as old.

Years later, clementine
secretly burns the canvas.

Churchill: I'm now nearing
the end of my journey.

I hope I still have
some services to render.

However that may be
and whatever may befall,

I'm sure I shall never forget
the emotions of this day

Or be able fully
to express my gratitude

To those colleagues
and companions

With whom I have lived my life

For this wonderful honor
they have done me.

[applause]

Narrator: Rumors grow that
churchill is about to resign

Due to ill health.

But first,
a highly public farewell

To the young monarch
he has mentored.

On April 4, 1955,

The churchills host
the first and only dinner

Held at 10 downing street

For queen elizabeth
and the duke of edinburgh.

The leader has served
under six monarchs.

The next day,
under the glare of cameras,

Churchill drives
to buckingham palace

To resign as prime minister.

In a political career
of 55 years,

He has been home secretary,

First lord
of the admiralty twice,

Chancellor of the exchequer,

And twice
britain's prime minister.

After a life in public service,
his new reality hits hard.

Later that day, returning home
to hyde park gate,

Churchill is visibly diminished.

Even so, and despite ill health,

He spends much
of his retirement traveling.

After a mediterranean journey
in 1959,

His decline is clear to see.

He grows ever more frail.

On January 10, 1965,
he has a massive stroke.

Two weeks later,
on January 24, aged 90,

Winston leonard spencer
churchill dies.

A thick fog
descends on westminster.

Outside westminster hall,

300,000 mourners line up
silently to pay their respects.

Inside, churchill lies in state
for three days and three nights.

Commentator: Winston leonard
spencer churchill,

Knight of the garter,

Order of merit,

Companion of honor.

Narrator: In the 20th century,

No other prime minister
has yet had a state funeral.

142 soldiers draw his coffin
on the gun carriage first used

At queen victoria's funeral.

Outside st. Paul's cathedral,

The lord mayor
welcomes queen elizabeth.

As a tribute to churchill's
place in the nation's history,

She breaks protocol and arrives
before his family.

It's one of very few
civilian funerals

Ever attended
by a british monarch.

[choir singing hymn]

As eight grenadier guards
carry the coffin in,

The churchill family
follow solemnly behind.

Inside, everyone joins to sing

The hymn requested
by churchill himself,

The american "battle hymn
of the republic."

Choir: ♪ ...Is marching on ♪

[cannons fire]

Narrator: As his cortege
moves down the river thames,

The cranes
are lowered in salute.

Choir: ♪ glory, hallelujah ♪

Narrator:
It's the end of an era,

But the legend
of winston churchill,

The man who led britain

Victoriously through
its darkest days,

Lives on.

Choir: ♪ ...Marching on ♪