Films in Focus: Warbird

A young Bomber Command air crew deal with friendship, loss, and paralysing fear as British and allied forces prepare for the invasion of France in June 1944.

A young Bomber Command air crew deal with friendship, loss, and paralyzing fear as British and allied forces prepare for the invasion of France in June 1944.

Set in and around an RAF Bomber Command Airbase on the east coast of England in 1943/4, and more often than not in Lancaster Bomber C for Charlie, itself. A youthful seven man bomber aircrew, prepare for a maximum-effort raid deep over the heart of Nazi Germany’s industrial complex.

The expectation is that this will become yet another long, hard and deadly, but hopefully decisive raid, as Bomber Command strives for air superiority during the build-up to the rumored and impending allied invasion of Nazi occupied France. The stakes are therefore already extremely high, so when Barton, the young, overprotective and often unpredictable mid-upper gunner on this crew of unsung heroes learns that the others want him out, chaos ensues as his inner demons are laid bare for all to see.

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