Rating: G
Length: 132 minutes

Widescreen 2.35:1 Color (Anamorphic)

ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono

English, French, Spanish

This movie starts after the Germans have captured Dunkirk. Watch how the outmanned/outgunned English Air Force holds back the German onslaught keeping them from invading English soil.

First off this movie is historically correct as far as the battles go. It factually portrays the strategies and, in the case of the Germans, the errors that were made. The fight scenes were well done largely due to the fact that the plane they needed to film this movie were still available; there was no such thing as CGI in 1969.

Michael Caine's lack of screen time and the obligatory personal story that always has to permeate war films; this one between a pilot and his volunteering and somewhat defiant wife (yawn).

• Theatrical Trailer

This is an entertaining and abbreviated history lesson on the Battle of Britain for people that hate documentaries/textbooks. Fortunately the Spanish Air Force still had a lot of German planes for sale that was used in this film. The dogfights were well done and I like the fact that they paid attention to historical accuracies.

Guy Hamilton   [Diamonds Are Forever, Force 10 from Navarone, Goldfinger, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun]

Harry Andrews - Senior civil servant

[Alexander the Great]

Michael Bates - Warrant Officer Warwick

[A Clockwork Orange]

Michael Caine - Squadron Leader Canfield

[A Bridge Too Far, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Dressed to Kill, The Eagle Has Landed, The Prestige, The Quiet American, Secondhand Lions, Zulu]

Trevor Howard - Air Vice Marshal Keith Park

[Mary Queen of Scots, Superman, Von Ryan's Express]

Curd Jürgens - Baron von Richter

[The Enemy Below, The Spy Who Loved Me]

Ian McShane - Sgt. Pilot Andy

[The Golden Compass]

Kenneth More - Group Capt. Baker

[Sink the Bismarck!]

Laurence Olivier - Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding

[A Bridge Too Far, The Boys from Brazil, Clash of the Titans, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Spartacus]

Nigel Patrick - Group Capt. Hope

Christopher Plummer - Squadron Leader Colin Harvey

[A Beautiful Mind, Alexander, The Fall of the Roman Empire, The Insider, Malcolm X, National Treasure, Nuremberg]

Michael Redgrave - Air Vice Marshal Evill

Ralph Richardson - Sir David Kelly

[300 Spartans, Dragonslayer, Time Bandits]

Robert Shaw - Squadron Leader Skipper

[A Man for All Seasons, Battle of the Bulge, Force 10 From Navarone, From Russia With Love, Jaws, The Sting]

Patrick Wymark - Air Vice Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory

[Where Eagles Dare]

Susannah York - Section Officer Maggie Harvey

[A Man for All Seasons, Superman, Superman II]