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Martin Shore

Is The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare a true story? Did it inspire James Bond?

Henry Cavill on a boat in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

You might be wondering if The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare a based on a true story. Not long after taking over Netflix with The Gentlemen, Guy Ritchie has unleashed his latest effort, a World War Two action-comedy starring Argylle's Henry Cavill, Reacher's Alan Ritchson, Eiza González (Ambulance) Alex Pettyfer (Stormbreaker), and many more.

The movie is the story of a secretive black ops crew, one established by a small group of wartime officials including Prime Minister Winston Churchill and future James Bond creator, Ian Fleming. We follow the secret unit as they take on the Nazis in an entirely unconventional (and decided "ungentlemanly") manner. In What To Watch's The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare review, we called it "one of the best movies of the year" and an "explosive good time". But is there any truth to this wartime story of derring-do? We've got the answers. 

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