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Using newly-discovered film archive and photographs, based on private letters, diaries and paintings from the Churchill archives and inter-cut with superbly shot location sequences and interviews, Chasing Churchill is a series of three one-hour documentaries presented in high-definition and surround sound.
Winston Churchill died on 24 January 1965. His granddaughter Celia Sandys was at his bedside as he died, and she stood by his grave as he was laid to rest at Bladon within sight of Blenheim Palace, his ancestral home.
His public life was a remarkable journey - recounted many times by many people. But Churchill’s life involved another, much more private journey.
It was a journey in search of himself: to find stillness at the core of his boundless energy; to find solitude amidst the throngs of people he loved to have around him; to find contentment within the turmoil of his lonely, brilliant and troubled life. Churchill’s quest for his inner-self took two forms: a constant thirst for exotic travel and a deep-seated passion for the exuberance of painting and the beauty of words.
