The RAF at War: Part Two

Jan 2, 2004

0h 55m

★ 0.0

Overview

Three part documentary of the history of the Royal Air Force during World War Two. They combine actual Air Ministry films and period newsreel footage with interviews of surviving members of the air force. The second part covers the early years of 1939-1940 from the threat of German invasion preceded by Oporation Eagle attacks on airfields and ports, through the Battle of Britain to the commencement of the British bombing of Berlin after attacks on London and wider civilian casualties such as Coventry.

Genres

War

Documentary

Production Companies

Pegasus Entertainment

Classic Pictures

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Cast

himself (Presenter)

Edward Woodward

Narrator

Jack McKenzie

Narrator

Ian Swann

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6.3

Up Periscope

Mar 4, 1959

Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes.

6.8

Dunkirk

Mar 20, 1958

A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches. Some come forward to help, others were less willing.

3.3

Furtuna

Feb 4, 1959

Story depicting the national liberation struggle of the Albanian people against the Italian and German invaders during World War II.

6.5

Sunshine

Sep 13, 1999

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

5.3

Zone Troopers

Oct 1, 1985

American soldiers, led by The Sarge, are stuck behind Nazi enemy lines. As they make their way across the Italian countryside, they come across an alien spaceship that has crash-landed in the woods. The alien pilot is dead, but one of the ship's passengers is on the loose. As the GIs hunt down the alien by splitting into smaller groups, they're not only tracked by the Nazis, but also a whole host of other aliens come to save their stranded party.

10.0

Mountains Clad in Green

Dec 31, 1971

Year 1943. A group of soldiers, carrying an injured comrade, are trying to reach the hospital.

0.0

Once at Dawn

Mar 8, 1971

A driver is tasked with sending weapons illegally to the partisan soldiers.

5.5

The Most Beautiful

Apr 13, 1944

Young women at a precision optics factory in wartime Japan push to exceed production quotas, enduring illness, injury, and personal hardship to “serve the country.” Led by Tsuru Watanabe, they fight fatigue and setbacks to keep their line moving—even when duty collides with grief.

7.5

Storm Front in Mayo

May 28, 2019

Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day comes to depend on the readings taken by Maureen Flavin, a young girl who works at a post office, used as a weather station, in Blacksod, in County Mayo, the westernmost promontory of Europe, far from the many lands devastated by the iron storms of World War II.

6.3

The Battle of the River Plate

Oct 30, 1956

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0.0

Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain

Jul 16, 2000

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6.0

No Escape

Sep 28, 2008

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0.0

The Discussion

Dec 26, 1961

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6.0

13 Rue Madeleine

Jan 15, 1947

Bob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students, Bill O'Connell, who is too good at espionage. His boss, Charles Gibson confirms that O'Connell is really a top German agent, but tells Sharkey to pass him, as they intend to feed the mole false information about the impending D-Day invasion.

10.0

Victory Over Death

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World War II. Albania is under the Nazi occupation. The Germans capture two young girls and torture them to learn more about the communist movement.

0.0

Łódź Ghetto

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The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation of the Jewish population into the ghetto, and the subsequent horrors are vividly chronicled via newsreels and photographs. The narration is taken almost entirely from journals and diaries of those who lived–and died–through the course of the occupation, with the number of different narrators diminishing as the film progresses, symbolic of the death of each narrator.

6.2

The Girl

May 7, 1965

A lyrical fourfold perspective on WWII through the eyes of a young partisan couple, a town photographer and a German officer.

5.5

Swing Shift

Apr 13, 1984

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5.4

Gung Ho!

Dec 20, 1943

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