Battle of Britain

1   7   6.5 

1952: The plot centres on a young fighter pilot immediately before and during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War. Some scenes in the film were shot at RAF Uxbridge, home to a wartime operations room. "Angels One Five" refers to RAF radio procedure words, from the Second World War, meaning an altitude of 15,000 feet.

43   5.9   6.8 

1969: The film endeavoured to be an 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 Sealion – Hitler's plan to invade Britain. The film is notable for its spectacular flying sequences. It is shown regularly on British television.

escafeld's rating:

1   6   6.4 

1943: A black and white wartime film made by Ealing Studios. The film was intended to give praise to the British Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS). Although a fictitious plot, many of the incidental shots were taken at actual fires that were started during the air raids on London in the previous two years.

1   6   6.2 

1941: The film's love-story plot revolves around the fictional composer of the Warsaw Concerto, a piano virtuoso and "shell-shocked" combat pilot, who meets an American War Correspondent in Warsaw, and later goes back from America to join the RAF in England to continue to fight against the Nazis.

21   6.4   7.2 

2001: The film is about Czech pilots who refuse to submit to their Nazi occupiers, and flee to the United Kingdom to join and fight for the British Royal Air Force during World War II.

7   0   7.3 

1943: Filmed in documentary style showing the lives of firemen through the Blitz in World War II. The film uses actual firemen rather than professional actors.

2   7   7 

1942: It is a biography of R.J. Mitchell, the designer of the Supermarine Spitfire. The film's title refers to the words of Winston Churchill who, when speaking of the Battle of Britain aircrew said: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

1   0   7.4 

1943: In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140 year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.

3   3.5   6 

1939: A documentary style propoganda film. The film is recounted in various "chapters" with a linking story revolving around a senior Royal Air Force officer.

0   0   6.9 

1943. Propoganda film showing life in a wartime aircraft factory. When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life, and begins a relationship with a young airman.

25   7.7   7.7 

1942: Produced as a propaganda film aimed at ending American isolation from the war by attempting to undermine Hollywood's prewar depiction of England as a glamorous bastion of social privilege, anachronistic habits and snobbery in favour of more democratic, modern images.

1   6   7.7 

1968: A Czechoslovakian movie about Czech pilots in RAF service during the Battle of Britain, and the ongoing aerial battle in Northern Europe. It tells the story of the crews of the RAF's No. 311 Squadron, which was mainly crewed by escaped Czech airmen, and their bombing raids during the Second World War.

2   6   7.3 

1957: The film chronicles the true exploits of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, a German flyer shot down over England south of Marden, Kent. shot down during the Battle of Britain and captured he is sent to a POW camp. He makes a number of escape attempts, on one occasion getting as far as the cockpit of an aircraft he was trying to steal while passing himself off as a Dutch pilot on a secret mission. He is then sent to Canada, where he escapes from a heavily guarded train. Walking overland and crossing a frozen river, he manages to enter the United States, which at that time was still neutral, and claim asylum.

1156   5.5   5.4 

2001: Rafael McCawley is accepted to go to Britain and join Eagle Squadron, a squadron of volunteer American pilots serving with the Royal Air Force in the fight against the Germans.

escafeld's rating:

2   7   7 

1956: Biographical film of aviator Douglas Bader who lost both legs in a flying accident in 1931. He persuaded the RAF to let him re-join the service at the start of the Second World War and fought in the Battle of Britain. He was taken prisoner in 1941 after being forced to bail out over France, and was later imprisoned in Colditz Castle. The film continues to his release in 1945 when Bader is again able to lead his men in a flypast commemorating the war's end.

1   0   6.3 

1945: Musical film starring Rita Hayworth and Lee Bowman, about wartime romance and tragedy in a London music hall that was determined not to miss a single performance during the Blitz. Hayworth played an American showgirl who fell in love with an RAF pilot played by Bowman.

5   7   6.5 

1941: Black and white movie that features an American pilot who joins the Royal Air Force in England; not to defend England but to impress a former girlfriend. As the move progresses, his motivations gradually change as he begins to realize all that is at stake in the war and what the Allies are fighting for.