New to Netflix UK this month is Darkest Hour, a World War 2 drama and critical darling. Set in the early days of the war from ...

In some respects, "Darkest Hour" is one chapter of a sweeping cinematic tale, other pieces of which are told in this year's "Dunkirk" and the 2011 Oscar winner "The King's Speech." Churchill ...

Joe Wright's Darkest Hour starring Gary Oldman arrives on Netflix on July 16, 2025. A historical drama about Winston ...

Brian Cox as Winston Churchill. Graeme Hunter/Salon/Kobal / Shutterstock That same year, Gary Oldman, 66, played Churchill in the movie “Darkest Hour” and won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Such as when Churchill makes decisions like sacrificing the lives of 4,000 men in Calais to distract the German army away from Dunkirk and the effort to save 300,000 British soldiers trapped there.

Legendary actor Gary Oldman's list of accomplishments and incredibly memorable performances in so many great movies, dating back to 1986 with his intense portrayal of Sid Vicious in Sid & Nancy ...

Gary Oldman with his Oscar for ‘Darkest Hour’. Photo: Baz Bamigboye/Deadline His thoughts soon turned to his late mother, Kathleen, who died at 99, three months after he received his Oscar.

Gary Oldman has always lived life to the fullest, on screen and off. Maybe that's why he is often at his best in his pitch-perfect portraits of real-life personae such as Winston Churchill in Darkest ...