Battle of Britain
- IMDb link: 0064072
- IMDb rating: 7 (26,992 votes) Search
- Genres: Action, Drama, War, History
- Director: Guy Hamilton
- Cast: Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews, Curd Jurgens and others
- Release date: 24 Oct 1969
- Release year: 1969
- Runtime: 132 minutes
- Country: United Kingdom
- Keywords: battle of britain, royal air force, world war two, air battle, airplane shot down, aerial combat, london england, aviation, based on true story, year 1940
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In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.
It is 1940, and the diabolical mind of Adolf Hitler is planning to bomb England into submission to his warped dreams of a "Fortress Europe". Standing between Britain's freedom and Hitler's terrifying plans is the Royal Air Force, dedicated pilots who took to the skies again and again in the face of overwhelming odds. The German Luftwaffe's planes outnumber the R.A.F.'s by more than two to one, six hundred fifty planes of the R.A.F. versus two thousand five hundred of the Luftwaffe. These odds, however, do not deplete the determination of the R.A.F. to stop Hitler, and as the Luftwaffe launches wave after wave of Heinkel 111 bombers against British cities, the R.A.F. responds, under the leadership of Air Vice Marshal Park (Trevor Howard) and Squadron Leaders Canfield (Sir Michael Caine) and Harvey (Christopher Plummer), who lead the newest pilots of the R.A.F. into confrontation after confrontation with the Luftwaffe's experienced veterans, with the aim of driving Hitler's forces away from Dover's white cliffs for good.
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