Bomber Boys
2012 · 89 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 82 VOTES · DIR. Harvey Lilley
Overview
Brothers Colin and Ewan McGregor follow up their documentary The Battle of Britain with a film exploring Bomber Command, a rarely told story from the Second World War. The film focuses primarily on the men who fought and died in the skies above occupied Europe, with numerous examples of individual heroism and extraordinary collective spirit, and Colin learns to fly the key aircraft of the campaign: the Lancaster bomber. But this is also the story of a controversy that has lasted almost 70 years. The program covers six years of wartime operations, and traces the obstacles and challenges that were overcome as the RAF developed and deployed the awesome fighting force that was Bomber Command.
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00:00:10 of any British serviceman in the war.
00:03:59 Ah, a fantastic aeroplane, beautiful.
00:06:35 Yeah, exactly, yeah. I'm going to have to shift my view a little higher up next, I think.
00:10:59 - Shall we go in? - Yeah, let's do it.
00:14:37 Oh, fantastic. What a privilege it was.
00:18:19 They used photographs. They used photographs on the undercarriages of the planes
00:21:41 and nobody was going to bomb them.
00:24:50 it looked the part.
00:27:33 ages and nationalities, unthinkable before the war.
00:31:19 I was wound up before I went anyway, like the seven in the crew.
00:35:25 that building on the...
00:38:55 Even though the tail of the aircraft was close to breaking away
00:42:41 The German defences were becoming ever more deadly.
00:45:55 That is the only thing that was going to bring that aircraft down using a .303.
00:49:17 But the brilliant Lancaster was more than up to it.
00:52:39 I couldn't move a little finger, even
00:56:17 So, we sat three on the hood at the back, three on the front seat
00:59:32 We're travelling to Hamburg to find out more about the impact of the raid.
01:03:43 people lying in the streets dead, dead bodies.
01:07:54 Today, the RAF is using a detachment of just eight
01:11:36 something that is capable of carrying out applied violence in a very precise way.
01:15:58 is here to see the Lancaster on one of the few occasions in the year she takes to the air.
01:21:40 watch all the four engines starting up in front of you.
01:25:31 But a million troops, and thousands of anti-aircraft guns, were pinned down defending the Reich.