Young Winston

Young Winston is a 1972 film based on the early years of future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

The film was based on the book "My Early Life: A Roving Commission" by Winston Churchill. The first part of the film covers Churchill's unhappy schooldays, up to the death of his father. The second half covers his service as a cavalry officer in India and the Sudan, during which he takes part in the cavalry charge at Omdurman, his experiences as a war correspondent in the Second Boer War, during which he is captured and escapes, and his election to Parliament at the age of 26.