Lancaster

2022

1h 50m

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Archival material and extraordinary aerial footage tells the story of the Lancaster, the iconic British bomber that's responsible for some of the most famous flying missions during World War II.

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John J

It is a very good representation of what it was really like according to my uncle who was a Lancaster pilot.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/26/24

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Jake C

Finally an honest account of what these brave men went through from the men themselves. No other branch of the armed forces suffered bigger losses than the men of bomber command, a 50% survival rate. And no other branch was treated as badly after the war. Inspirational and humbling in equal measure. A beautifully crafted film that needs to be watched.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/31/23

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P G

Good. I think there was a missed opportunity, to interview the bomb squads from Germany. These guys are all in their 90s now, so unlikely to capture their side of the story to give a complete picture. I still think the spitfire doc was better overall.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

05/16/23

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Ruby E

Beautiful and sad. Wish more of them could have been atound to share their stories

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/26/23

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Ron H

Where to start? I was expecting an in-depth documentary of the aircraft, its origins, its manufacture, its systems and mechanics and the training and responsibilities of its crew. What I got was a little of the above and much more about the bombing campaign, its successes and failures and the ethics of the whole endeavour. The "Butcher Harris" controversy and the shunning of Bomber Command after the war (which I suspect was more important to later-day historians than people in the U.K. who lived through those times) was the final unnecessary straw. Save your 10 bucks.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

12/31/22

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Peter G

This is an extraordinary mixture of real newsreel of WW2 bombing raids, with extracts from the 1950s film "The Dambusters", with thoughtful interviews with former crew who must have been in their late 90s, with the Battle of Britain Lancaster starting up and taking off. In the credits is a tribute to NX611 "Just Jane", being restored to flying condition as a tribute to Bomber Commnad at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre - currently to taxying condition only. I saw it take off from Sydney in 1965 - once heard, never forgotten.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

11/07/22

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David Fairhead

Director

Ant Palmer

Director

Charles Dance

Narrator

Trevor Beattie

Producer

Jeremy Chatterton

Producer

Gareth Dodds

Producer

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Carol Midgley

Times (UK)

In the end this was less a film about the Lancaster bomber as a piece of military hardware, and more about what it meant to those young men, some only teenagers, who risked their lives in it.

Rated: 4/5

Jul 29, 2022

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Edward Porter

Times (UK)

This sturdy account, with lots of striking details, sees no need to be preachy and judgmental about the damage done by British bombing raids. It lets the veterans give their thoughts on the matter, and these — unsurprisingly — are humane and reasonable.

Rated: 4/5

Jun 2, 2022

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

It’s solid, no frills film-making, but that’s entirely appropriate given the sobering stories recounted by surviving members of Bomber Command, now in their 90s.

Rated: 3/5

May 29, 2022

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Richard Crouse

Richard Crouse

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but the words of the people that were there, in the sky and on the ground, paint a vivid portrait of the destruction brought from above.

Rated: 4/5

Nov 10, 2022

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Roger Moore

Movie Nation

Briskly covers a lot of ground, making it a most watchable overview of a subject that whole documentary series and a library's worth of books have been devoted to.

Rated: 3/4

Oct 14, 2022

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James Croot

Stuff.co.nz

Their warts-and-all, often emotional testimony (at times, as questioning of their own actions and critical of their command, as they are of the opposition they were there to stop) is what really makes for enlightening and compelling viewing.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 31, 2022

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Synopsis

Archival material and extraordinary aerial footage tells the story of the Lancaster, the iconic British bomber that's responsible for some of the most famous flying missions during World War II.

Director: David Fairhead, Ant Palmer
Producer: Will Clarke
Production Co: Haviland Digital, British Film Company, Trevor Beattie Films
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English (United Kingdom)
Runtime: 1h 50m

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