This is always the challenge when making a film about real people: do you present unvarnished truth and put the audience to sleep or do you tell a good story and move things around a bit... or maybe more than a bit.

But I'm also bothered by the notion that a person (in this instance, Churchill) must be entirely good. No one is. We all f* up, sometimes more than we do it right. It doesn't make Churchill less important and heroic for having gotten it wrong for awhile. On the other hand, my father (stationed in England for several years during WWII) said that Churchill was often a laughingstock because of inebriation. Of course, my father had very littler tolerance for drunkenness, so take it with a grain of salt.