Finest Hour

Finest hour may refer to:

  • This was their finest hour – 1940 speech by Winston Churchill
  • The Finest Hours, a 1964 documentary based on the above speech
  • Their Finest Hour - the second volume of Sir Winston Churchill's history of World War II
  • Finest Hour – Japan-only 1989 arcade game by Namco
  • Their Finest Hour (1989 video game) - air combat video game by Lucasfilm Games
  • Call of Duty: Finest Hour – first-person shooter for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and GameCube by Spark Unlimited
  • The Finest Hour (film) – 1991 war-drama film
  • Finest Hour (band) - an American Indie Rock band
  • Finest Hour - an album by comedian Patton Oswalt
  • Hearts of Iron III: Their Finest Hour, an expansion pack for Hearts of Iron III

Famous quotes containing the words finest hour, finest and/or hour:

    “Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.””
    —Winston Churchill (1874–1965)

    “I had withdrawn so far within the great ocean of solitude, into which the rivers of society empty, that for the most part, so far as my needs were concerned, only the finest sediment was deposited around me. Beside, there were wafted to me evidences of unexplored and uncultivated continents on the other side.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “This is the Hour of Lead—
    Remembered, if outlived,
    As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow—
    First—Chill—then Stupor—then the letting go—”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)