Finest Hour - The Battle of Britain
by Nick Read
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Actor: Will LymanDirector: Nick Read
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 220 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Pbs Paramount
Movie Reviews of Finest Hour - The Battle of Britain
Movie Review: God in a cup of tea
Summary: 5 Stars
Like Ken Burns' haunting "The Civil War", "Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain" (not to be confused with many other "Finest Hour" productions) is the last word in documentary magic. Arguably no other society since the Spartans has shown the raw, hanging-by-the-fingernails courage that the British summoned to hold out against the Nazi war machine. Narrated by the great Will Lyman, this documentary's strength lies in the personal accounts of profoundly British individuals who survived staggering hardship, and went on to enjoy their four o'clock tea; and in its standard-raising, professional quality.Like all great documentaries, this production leaves the viewer with a profound sense of history as an aggregate of individual acts of courage, eccentricity, and occasionally just plain opportunism - all of which lead to Churchill's "broad, sunlit uplands" of the mind and spirit.
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