To Arms! Young Winston — (1972) - Color - PG — Simon Ward, Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins — Played by Simon Ward, young Churchill is ambitious and over-eager, with a tendency toward boastful over-exaggeration an... more »d opportunism, all of which served him well in overturning the low expectations of his father. The film flashes back through three main periods of Churchill's life narrated by the older, knowing Churchill. In boyhood and adolescence, Churchill's self-consumed parents, Lord Randolph and American-born Lady Jennie, are too busy with their own lives in Parliament and social engagements to see him off to boarding school, a task fulfilled by a beloved nanny. The Prisoner« less