"The Battle of Britain" was epic classic movie, with beautiful in-flight sequences of almost original aircraft, but usage of edited out material from this film in a documentary, is a misunderstanding. "Almost" makes a difference in this case. One could think, that Messerschmitts and Heinkels really had Merlin engines with huge radiators, because they saw it in a document... And, with due respect, special effects in the movie are not up to date. The documentary makes ridiculous usage of poorly disguised American vehicles as German ones in completely redundant scenes. But was I expecting too much?.. Well, the allegation alone, that any given "13 hours" saved Britain, should have given some hint as for seriousness of this production... By the way, the authors surely haven't heard, that in spite of "saving Britain" on 15 August, it was 18 August to be dubbed "The Hardest Day".
Despite civilian witnesses' perspective is quite interesting, but personally I was hoping to see some in-depth analysis of peculiar air raids, numbers of aicraft involved and squadron numbers... Not to mention, that it would have been nice to hear, that not only British pilots took part in that glorious day.
13 Hours That Saved Britain
2010
Documentary / History / War
13 Hours That Saved Britain
2010
Documentary / History / War
Plot summary
In this documentary, experts dissect the Battle of Britain, which took place on Sept. 15, 1940 — a day that determined the fate of the nation.
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July 24, 2022 at 09:58 PM
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Recycled disappointment
Could do much better
A lot of recycled footage from "The Battle of Britain" movie which is now quite old. Historically that material was pretty good but unfortunately they forgot to mention the Americans and Commonwealth pilots, let alone the poles. Even the original BoB movie featured Christopher Plummer with Canadian colours as well as the French and others.
My impression looking at how it was advertised was that we would see more on the management which was something special. Unfortunately, we only got the basics. The people who were interi added some colour but little information as they were.mostly children at the time.
Where were the Germans or indeed other adults from the time (I now that most would have passed but I'm sure there is footage on file)?
Dull and lacking in detail
Uses a lot of Battle Of Britain movie footage interspersed with some boring anecdotes. Not much detail about the pilots, the planes, the decisions made etc.