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 ...

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.