LANCASTER

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By David FAIRHEAD, Anthony PALMER

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Documentary - Completed 2022

Winning a war is not easy. LANCASTER tells the story of the iconic WW2 bomber, through the words of the last surviving veterans.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Duration
- 110 mn
- Director(s)
- David FAIRHEAD, Anthony PALMER
- Producer(s)
- Gareth DODDS, Trevor BEATTIE, Jeremy CHATTERTON, Steve MILNE, Keith HAVILAND, David FAIRHEAD, Anthony PALMER
- Synopsis
- Winning a war is not easy. LANCASTER tells the story
  of the iconic WW2 bomber, through the words of the
  last surviving veterans. Starting with ‘The Blitz’, we
  follow our 38 contributors as they join-up, learn to fly
  and go to war. With the enemy strong and RAF Bomber
  Command badly equipped, losses were high. But
  eventually, the tide turned with the introduction of the
  ‘Lanc’. Designed to take the war to the enemy - and to
  win it – the Lancaster was both loved and feared.
  
  From the firestorms of Hamburg, through the famous
  Dambuster raids and the still-controversial bombing of
  Dresden, emotional testimonies tell of courage, fear,
  friendship and moral ambiguity. For there was a deadly
  price to be paid in the lethal night skies over Germany
  - 55,000 aircrew and 600,000 civilians were killed.
  Such was the cost of defeating the Nazis and restoring
  peace to Europe.