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Battle of Britain (1969)

★ 6.9 · 344 ratings on TMDB

Never was so much owed by so many to so few.

Battle of Britain poster★ 6.9

In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing an attempted Nazi invasion.

DirectorGuy Hamilton
CastChristopher Plummer, Curd Jürgens, Harry Andrews, Ian McShane, Kenneth More, Laurence Olivier
GenresAction, History, War
The emergence reading

Battle of Britain keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E11/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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