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Episode 6 – Cinema
Churchill was a film fanatic and had an active interest in the movie business. He became friends with Charlie Chaplin and collaborated as a screenwriter in the 1930s with the great Hungarian-born director Alexander Korda. A scene set in the trenches of World War One from Churchill’s screenplay – never made into a film – is dramatized here for the first time. David Cannadine explores Winston Churchill’s love affair with the movies and Churchill’s growing awareness of the propaganda power of the moving image.
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