Category Archives: Modern documentaries
Bouncing bomb reaches US screens
If you haven’t yet caught up with the Windfall Films documentary Building the Bouncing Bomb, screened last May in the UK and later in Canada, you now have a chance to see it, if you live in the USA. It’s … Continue reading
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The race to smash the German dams
James Holland’s film, shown on BBC2 last Tuesday night, is available for UK viewers to watch again on iPlayer until Saturday 19 November. Follow this link. So far, I can’t find any reviews posted online, but I have come across … Continue reading
Filed under Dams Raid crews, Modern documentaries
Another date for the diary
BBC2 is to screen yet another documentary about the Dams Raid next Tuesday, 8 November at 9pm. Subtitled “The Race to Smash the German Dams”, this promises to be a less superficial film than last autumn’s effort, which was fronted … Continue reading
Filed under Les Munro, Modern documentaries
Bouncing bomb back
If you missed the Channel 4 documentary, Building the Bouncing Bomb, last May, you now have another chance to see it. It’s being repeated on Channel 4 this Saturday, 24 September, at 7.30pm.
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Meet the bomb-bouncers at Cheltenham
If you enjoyed the ‘bouncing bomb’ documentary on Channel 4 earlier this month then you will be pleased to know that the engineers involved, Hugh Hunt and Hilary Costello, will be speaking at the Cheltenham Science Festival on Sunday 12 … Continue reading
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Hello, good evening and welcome
If this is your first visit to the only Dambusters blog on the interwebnet, you are very welcome. You may well have arrived here after watching the Channel 4 documentary on Monday 2 May, in which modern engineers rebuilt a … Continue reading
‘Return of the Dambusters’ to air on C4 in May
Channel 4 has now announced that its documentary about the recreation of the Dams Raid will be aired on Monday 2 May at 8pm. in May. No exact date has yet been given, but my guess that sometime around the raid’s … Continue reading
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Dambusters Declassified discussed
The Dambusters Declassified documentary shown on BBC a couple of weeks ago wasn’t widely reviewed in the national press, but has been the subject of debate on a number of internet forums. One of these discussions, on a forum widely … Continue reading
Filed under Jack Liddell, John Fraser, Modern documentaries
It’s big, and it bounces
Here’s a bigger and better version of one of the pictures snapped recently in Mackenzie, British Columbia. It shows the bouncing bomb underneath a vintage DC4 (not DC3, sorry!) of Buffalo Air. See below for the full story. No word … Continue reading
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