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The film endeavoured to be a generally accurate account of the Battle of Britain, when in the summer and autumn of 1940 the British RAF inflicted a strategic defeat on the Luftwaffe and so ensured the cancellation of Operation Sea Lion, Adolf Hitler's plan to invade Britain. The film is notable for its spectacular flying sequences.
Battle of Britain (1969) Eagles Over London (1970) Catch-22 (1970), American B-25 crewmen trying to survive the war in Italy; Hanover Street (1979) Hope and Glory (1987) Piece of Cake TV series (1988), RAF pilots in the Battle of Britain; Memphis Belle (1990), final mission of a B-17 crew; The Tuskegee Airmen (1995), depiction of the all-black ...
Films about or set in the Battle of Britain and The Blitz. Pages in category "Battle of Britain films" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total.
In 1969 he appeared in the film Battle of Britain (1969) as a pilot with facial burns in a scene with Kenneth More and Susannah York. He was a member of the Guinea Pig Club and gave support to burns victims from subsequent conflicts. He said he often had an empty seat next to him on his train journeys to work as people would move away when they ...
Hein Riess as Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring in the Battle of Britain (1969) Hein Riess (11 September 1913 – September 1993) was a German actor and folk singer. Riess was born in Hamburg-Eilbek. He was previously a sailor who began work as a cabin boy on ships and then became a professional singer, mainly of sea shanties.
The Blue and the Gray (TV miniseries, 1982) North and South (TV miniseries, 1985–86) – Book II episodes, depictions of the battles of Bull Run I, Antietam, Wilderness and Petersburg III; Lincoln (TV miniseries, 1988) Glory (1989), depictions of the Battle of Antietam, the Battle of Grimball's Landing, and the Second Battle of Fort Wagner
The Battle of Britain was the fourth of Frank Capra's Why We Fight series of seven propaganda films, which made the case for fighting and winning the Second World War. It was released in 1943 and concentrated on the German bombardment of the United Kingdom in anticipation of Operation Sea Lion , the planned German invasion.
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