The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

An unforgettable story of forty gallant years.

A sweeping, affectionate portrait of a soldier's life across four decades, tracing how love, friendship, and changing times reshape a man's ideals and relevance.

General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.