Churchill's Rise — Trailer | How Churchill Became Prime Minister, May 1940

Four days. One debate. A Prime Minister falls.May 1940. Britain is eight months into the war. Neville Chamberlain commands an overwhelming majority in Parliament. There is no serious challenger. No expectation that anything is about to change.Then Norway happens. A campaign goes wrong. Parliament convenes to debate it. And something breaks — not from the opposition, but from within Chamberlain's own party.What begins as criticism becomes something sharper. More personal. More dangerous. Chamberlain wins the vote. But his majority collapses. And in that moment, his authority collapses with it.Churchill's Rise is a three-episode series from The Venetia Project tracing the extraordinary events of May 7–10, 1940 — the Norway Debate, the collapse of Chamberlain's authority, and how Winston Churchill, the man most still saw as a risk, became Prime Minister of Britain at its darkest hour.Episode 1: The Phoney War, Churchill's wilderness years, and the Norway disaster.Episode 2: The debate — the speeches that brought down a Prime Minister.Episode 3: Chamberlain resigns. Halifax declines. Churchill becomes PM.All three episodes available now.