The King's Speech Resources

Check out this site for everything from the movie's entire cast to what it grossed in box offices all over the world. Here's a hint to the second question: it was a lot.

Click this link to find out just why 94% of critics and 92% of audiences love this movie, making it one of the most popular ever.

Can't get enough of Lionel Logue? Well this book delves deeply into the man's methods and how he actually managed to "save the British monarchy" through his speech therapy techniques.

This article from The Guardian newspaper helps to show us how King George VI's struggles came to represent Britain's resistance against Nazism during World War Two. Oh yeah, and don't worry—Britain and its allies won World War Two.

In a sea of praise for The King's Speech, here's one article that tries to take the movie down a peg by showing how it distorts history.

Check out this article on The King's Speech from "The Stuttering Foundation," a nonprofit speech therapy center. After all, who can give a better account of the movie's portrayal of stuttering than the folks who know this stuff best?

Hop in the old time machine and fly back to 2010 to check out the theatrical trailer that would have given you your first glimpse of The King's Speech.

Who can get enough of the movie's climactic scene? So let's all watch it again, and again, and again…

Yup, it's a real tearjerker. Bring your hankies.

Click this link to check out the video that apparently made actor Colin Firth (Bertie) tear up when he first saw it.

You've heard the movie version. So now how about having a listen to the actual speech from 1939 by the real King George VI?

If you thought it was impressive to hear a speech by King George VI, how about hearing a Christmas speech from his Dad, King George V?

And here's another great example of what King George VI actually sounded like when he first went on the radio.

If only we'd had a young Tim Curry to play him in this movie. Not to say that Colin Firth didn't do a great job.

And here we find Bertie's brother David and Wallis Simpson, the woman he was wiling to give up the throne for.

She died in 2002, and as the Queen's mother she was incredibly popular for almost all the 100 years of her life.