The First of the Few (Spitfire)
In 1920s, R.J. Mitchell is known as a famous aircraft designer. But a holiday in Germany he persuaded Hitler that it is vital to create a perfectly new type of plane which had huge impacts on Britain
19 October 1909, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
1 February 1917, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
January 24, 1919 in Heidelberg, Germany
2 January 1904, Hamburg, Germany
26 October 1903, Bishop Stoke, England, UK
1 March 1910, London, England, UK
14 July 1898, Balcombe, Sussex, England, UK
27 July 1917, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
16 March 1880, Penwortham, Preston, Lancashire, England, UK
19 July 1884, Sunderland, Tyne-and-Wear, England, UK
7 November 1912, Berlin, Germany
26 March 1892, Trani, Puglia, Italy
13 February 1899, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire, England, UK
11 July 1884, London, England, UK
19 July 1919, West Derby, Liverpool, Lancashire [now in Merseyside], England, UK
20 April 1889, Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
25 May 1888, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
26 June 1889, Dublin, Ireland
30 November 1874, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK
3 April 1893, Forest Hill, London, England, UK
19 October 1913, Tottenham, London, England, UK
21 September 1906, London, England, UK
27 September 1907, Uxbridge, Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, UK
15 November 1923, London, England, UK
27 December 1890, Market Giffard, Ivybridge, Devonshire, England, UK
12 January 1893, Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany
1 August 1918, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK
January 31, 2018
This film is brilliantly conceived, superbly produced and directed, and has some of the finest lighting and photography yet seen in British films.
