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Three Days in May Event date:2012-01-23

Despite obligatory moments of red-white-and-blue willy waving, there is much to admire in Ben Brown's subtle documentary drama, which takes us back to three desperate days in 1940.

The scene is Churchill's Cabinet Room - atmospheric with green leather tables, Scotch, and a projected map of Europe, on which 250,000 British soldiers are retreating to a vulnerable embarkation point called Dunkirk. Belgium is on its knees and France is contemplating surrender. So here's the dilemma for Churchill's war cabinet: more 'jaw-jaw' with Hitler and Mussolini? Or war, at appalling human cost?

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