The Battle of Britain

1943Movie⏱️ 54mNot Rated

DocumentaryHistoryWar

⭐ 7.1

IMDB Rating

1,102 votes

The official World War II US government account of Great Britain's stand against the Nazi war machine after the Dunkirk evacuation.

Director

N/A

Writers

Julius J. Epstein, S.K. Lauren

Stars

Douglas Bader, Arno Breker, Winston Churchill

Release Date

November 26, 1945

Language

English

Country

United States

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Wins

💬 5

Reviews

📋 1.1K

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🎭 Top Cast

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Douglas Bader

as Self (after downing Me-109 and Dornier)

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Arno Breker

as Self - Views Eiffel Tower with Hitler and Speer

Winston Churchill

as Self - with Londoners, Donates Coin on Street

Hermann Göring

as Self - with Hitler at the Berghof

Adolf Hitler

as Self - Führer und Reichskanzler

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John B. Hughes

as Self - Narrator

Walter Huston

as Self - Narrator

Frieda Inescort

as Self - Narrator

Alfred Jodl

as Self - Views Map with Hitler

Wilhelm Keitel

as Self - in Railway Carriage with Göring

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio

1.37 : 1

Sound

Mono

Color

Black and White

Production

U.S. War Department

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⭐ Featured Review

Why We Fight

by Michael_Elliott • 2009-12-12

"Battle of Britain, The (1943) *** (out of 4) The fourth film in Capra's "Why We Fight" series takes a look at Britain and their entrance into the war. As with the other films in the series, the main goal here was to teach people in the U.S. why we're entering the war and bring them up on what's been going on overseas. Today we have much better documentaries about all these events so it's important to keep in mind that these were rather fresh when originally released and the information being passed here was all that was known then. Today, much of the informati..."