THE LANCASTER BOMBER (AKA SIR DAVID JASON: THE LANCASTER AT 80)

By Matt HARRIS

ABACUS MEDIA RIGHTS - as SALES

Documentary - Completed 2021

Tells the incredible story of how one of the most iconic aircraft in history was created and how, as Bomber Command’s most destructive weapon, it went on to become instrumental in the defeat of Nazi Germany during the second world war.

    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • UNITED KINGDOM
    • Duration
    • 60 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Matt HARRIS
    • Producer(s)
    • Thomas SCOTT EVANS
    • Synopsis
    • With contributions from military historians Alexandra Churchill, Dr Peter Johnston and James Holland, authors Leo McKinstry (Lancaster) and Mark Johnson (Pilots of the Caribbean), history enthusiast Arthur Williams and veteran Lancaster crewmembers, The Lancaster Bomber offers new angles on the aircraft’s complex legacy, the brave multi-cultural aircrews who flew it and the celebrated, but controversial, Arthur ‘Bomber’ Harris.