Category Archives: Modern documentaries
Bouncing bombs, 2010 style
Great excitement in Mackenzie, British Columbia, Canada which is nearly 600 miles from Vancouver and an even longer distance from anywhere else. This small township lies on the southern end of Williston Lake, a huge man-made lake, the seventh largest … Continue reading
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BBC documentary coming, Monday 13 September
This was promised a few months ago, and will be aired on Monday – but only on BBC Yorkshire and East Midlands. The programme blurb says it ‘sheds new light on the story’ as Martin Shaw separates the facts from … Continue reading
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One for the diary
Coming to a TV screen near you sometime in the autumn is a new production from BBC North and BBC Lincolnshire. This features actor Martin Shaw, sometime screen heartthrob Raymond Doyle, as he pilots a light aircraft over the route … Continue reading
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Tonight at 8
Just a quick note to say that UK residents with access to Channel Five can see the documentary ‘Last of the Dambusters: Revealed’ again tonight at 8pm. It features one of the (now only four) surviving Dambusters, George ‘Johnny’ Johnson … Continue reading
Only original part from Dambuster Lancaster goes on display
Pic: Grantham Journal I might be wrong, but I think this is the only original part of a Dambuster Lancaster on public display anywhere in the world. Eleven Lancasters got back from the original Operation Chastise but those that survived … Continue reading
‘Last of the Dambusters’ on Youtube
I posted about this interesting (although misleadingly titled) documentary last year, when it was shown on British terrestrial TV. It shows the journey made by Sqn Ldr George (Johnny) Johnson, bomb aimer in Joe McCarthy’s AJ-T, to visit the site … Continue reading
The youngest Dambuster
The youngest airman to take part in the Dams Raid was Sgt Jack Liddell, rear gunner in the crew of AJ-E, piloted by Flt Lt Norman Barlow. He was 18 when he took part in the raid, and lost his … Continue reading
Filed under Dams Raid crews, Jack Liddell, Modern documentaries, Operation Chastise
History Channel documentary
The 2002 documentary, History Raiders: The Dambusters, made for the History Channel, can now be found in its entirety on Youtube. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 It’s interesting how the documentary makers use clips from … Continue reading
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Last of the Dambusters, not
I managed to see a recording of the Channel Five documentary ‘Last of the Dambusters’ the other night. (As I live in Ireland, I can’t get Channel Five, even though we get all the other British channels on our cable … Continue reading
Dams Raid Lancaster crash site on TV
This is not the crash site of one of the eight Lancasters lost on Operation Chastise (those have all been excavated years ago) but is where Lancaster AJ-T (ED825/G) crashed on the night of 10 December 1943 near Doullens in … Continue reading
