Lancaster features rarely seen archive film and spectacular air-to-air footage of Britain’s sole remaining airworthy Lancaster, from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
But at its heart are the testimonies of the men who flew the aircraft in wartime. The film-makers’ previous documentary, Spitfire, was a comparatively upbeat story about the iconic fighter planes that won the Battle of Britain in 1940 and the heroic ‘few’ who flew them.
Lancaster, says Anthony Palmer, who co-directs the film with David Fairhead, ‘is a much darker story and a much bigger story’.This is because the campaign to bomb German cities remains one of the most contentious Allied actions of the Second World War.
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