‘Spitfire— Birth of a Legend‘ tells the story of the Spitfire from a radical design on the drawing board to the fighter aircraft that became the symbol of Britain’s determination to fight on to victory. It celebrates the history of this acclaimed aircraft, the men who designed and built it, and those who flew and fought in it. The story, along with dramatic archive and colour film of aerial combat, graphically illustrates the appeal and fascination the Spitfire has maintained since it faced and fought the fighter and bomber formations of the Luftwaffe.
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Nazi propaganda film about the Condor Legion, a unit of German "volunteers" who fought in the Spanis...
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
One of Britain’s greatest landscape artists, Eric Ravilious, is killed in a plane crash while on com...
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This World War II documentary rests on an unusual thesis: it argues that, in the wake of Pearl Harbo...
In 1914, the suffragette Mary Richardson attacked the Rokeby Venus at the National Gallery in London...
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