Rent Castles in the Sky (2014)

Name: Castles in the Sky
Rating: 3.6

3.6 of 5 from 72 ratings

1h 30min

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A nail-biting fight against the clock to save Great Britain. This is the remarkable human drama behind the invention that was to prove pivotal in the Battle of Britain. Eddie Izzard stars in this funny, moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little known team of scientists in the run up to the Second World War. On 26th February 1935, Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated for the first time that aircraft could be detected by bouncing radio waves off them. By the time the war began in 1939, radar stations were dotted along the British coast, tracking aircraft at distances of 100 miles away.
It was this invention - more than any other - that saved the RAF in the 1940 Battle of Britain. But getting to this stage was a battle in itself.
Actors:: Eddie Izzard, Laura Fraser, Arran Tulloch, Lesley Harcourt, Alex Jennings, David Hayman, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Karl Davies, Stephen Chance, Carl Heap, Celyn Jones, Iain McKee, Joe Bone, Nick Elliott, Tim McInnerny
Directors:: Gillies MacKinnon
Producers:: Simon Wheeler
Writers:: Ian Kershaw
Studio:: Dazzler
Genres:: Drama