The Valiant Years
The Valiant Years was a documentary produced by ABC based on the memoirs of Winston Churchill, directed by Anthony Bushell and John Schlesinger, narrated by Gary Merrill and with extracts from the memoirs voiced by Richard Burton. It ran in the United States from 1960 to 1961, in 27 30-minute episodes and was broadcast in the UK by the BBC from February to August 1961.[1] Its incidental music was written by Richard Rodgers, who won an Emmy for it in 1962. Scriptwriters included Victor Wolfson a dramatist and writer, playwright William Templeton, Quentin Reynolds, William L. Shirer, an American journalist, war correspondent and historian, and Richard Tregaskis. One of the programme's London-based producers was actor Patrick Macnee, just prior to his being cast as secret agent John Steed in the long-running cult TV series The Avengers.[2][3]
Awards
- Richard Rodgers won an Emmy award in 1962 for the music he wrote for the programme.
- Victor Wolfson, who wrote several episodes, won an Emmy Award 1960-1961 for Outstanding Writing Achievement in the Documentary Field.[4]
List of episodes
- The Gathering Storm
- Combat Deepens
- Dunkirk
- French Agony
- Take One with You
- The Ravens Remain
- Struggle at Sea
- Hinge of Fate
- Alone no More
- Out of the East
- The Torch is Lit
- Sand and Snow
- Strike Hard, Strike Home!
- Closing the Ring
- Be Sure you Win
- Turning of the Tide
- The Die is Cast
- D-Day
- Europe Set Ablaze
- Triumph in France
- Beginning of the End
- Final Christmas
- Yalta
- Tying the Knot
- Götterdämmerung
- Goodbye, Mr Churchill
- The Will to Victory
References
External links
- Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years at IMDb
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- The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898)
- Savrola (1899 novel)
- The River War (1899)
- London to Ladysmith via Pretoria (1900)
- Ian Hamilton's March (1900)
- Lord Randolph Churchill (1906)
- The World Crisis (1923–1931, five volumes)
- My Early Life (1930)
- Marlborough: His Life and Times (1933–1938, four volumes)
- Great Contemporaries (1937)
- Arms and the Covenant (1938)
- "Are There Men on the Moon?" (1942)
- The Second World War (1948–1953, six volumes)
- A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956–1958, four volumes)
depictions
- Bibliography of Winston Churchill
- Honours
- International Churchill Society
- Churchill War Rooms and Museum
- National Churchill Museum (Fulton, Missouri)
- Churchill College, Cambridge
- Memorial Trusts
- Schools and higher education (various)
- Boulevard in Mississauga, Ontario
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- Epstein busts
- Mishkenot Sha'ananim bust, Israel
- The Roaring Lion
- Sutherland portrait
- Cultural depictions
- "Churchillian Drift"
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- Clementine Churchill (wife)
- Diana Churchill (daughter)
- Randolph Churchill (son)
- Sarah Churchill (daughter)
- Marigold Churchill (daughter)
- Mary Soames (daughter)
- Winston Churchill (grandson)
- Lord Randolph Churchill (father)
- Jennie Jerome, Lady Randolph Churchill (mother)
- Jack Churchill (brother)
- John Spencer-Churchill (grandfather)
- Frances Anne Spencer-Churchill (grandmother)
- Leonard Jerome (grandfather)
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