Churchill's First World War: Film Analysis

Churchill’s First World War is definitely an entertaining documentary. As a hobby I have always read and researched a lot about World War 2 and I took this opportunity to look into a central figure I do not know much about. I knew of Churchill’s prowess as a leader during the 2nd World War but not what made him into the person he was. This documentary mainly covers his exploits during the first World War from 1914 to 1918. During this time Churchill had a few blunders and complete failures that forged him into the man he was to become. His self-motivation, self-determinism and support his wife Clementine Churchill definitely played a large part into his success in life and ability to lead. The documentary uses the letters between his Winston and Clementine as the main source of information as to his moods and inner thoughts throughout the film.

From this position he held the responsibility to inform the Royal Navy to “begin hostilities against the Germans”. The film then goes on to online the relationship between Clementine Churchill and Winston Churchill and explain that the wrote each other on an almost daily basis during this period in history. The treasure trove of history these letters have preserved is priceless as the documentary goes on to show. Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, shows his flexibility and ability to forward think. He promotes the use of naval aircraft to support the ground troops over the trenches in the European Theater of War. This emboldens him to start engineering weapons and mechanical contraptions to help solve the stalemate witch would become to be known as Winston’s Follies. The greatest of these contraptions was a tracked vehicle that was designed to cut through barbed wire. Later in the war it was developed into the first modern day