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''The Valiant Years'' was a documentary produced by
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based on the memoirs of
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from ...
, directed by
Anthony Bushell
Anthony Arnatt Bushell (19 May 1904 – 2 April 1997) was an English film actor and director who appeared in more than 50 films between 1929 and 1961. He played Colonel Breen in the BBC serial ''Quatermass and the Pit'' (1958–59), and al ...
and
John Schlesinger
John Richard Schlesinger (; 16 February 1926 – 25 July 2003) was an English film and stage director. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for ''Midnight Cowboy'', and was nominated for the same award for two other films ('' Darling'' an ...
, narrated by
Gary Merrill
Gary Fred Merrill (August 2, 1915 – March 5, 1990) was an American film and television actor whose credits included more than 50 feature films, a half-dozen mostly short-lived TV series, and dozens of television guest appearances. He starr ...
and with extracts from the memoirs voiced by
Richard Burton
Richard Burton (; born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. Noted for his baritone voice, Burton established himself as a formidable Shakespearean actor in the 1950s, and he gave a memorable pe ...
. It ran in the United States from 1960 to 1961, in 27 30-minute episodes and was broadcast in the UK by the
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from February to August 1961.
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
William Lawrence Shirer (; February 23, 1904 – December 28, 1993) was an American journalist and war correspondent. He wrote ''The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'', a history of Nazi Germany that has been read by many and cited in scholarly w ...
, an American journalist, war correspondent and historian, and
Richard Tregaskis
Richard William Tregaskis (November 28, 1916 – August 15, 1973) was an American journalist and author whose best-known work is '' Guadalcanal Diary'' (1943), an account of just the first several weeks (in August - September 1942) of the U.S. M ...
. One of the programme's London-based producers was actor
Patrick Macnee, just prior to his being cast as secret agent
John Steed
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in the long-running cult TV series ''
The Avengers''.
Awards
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Richard Rodgers won an
Emmy award in 1962 for the music he wrote for the programme.
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Victor Wolfson, who wrote several episodes, won an
Emmy Award 1960-1961 for Outstanding Writing Achievement in the Documentary Field.
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
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Films about Winston Churchill
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