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
16 March 1880, Penwortham, Preston, Lancashire, England, UK
4 June 1892, London, England, UK
27 September 1907, Uxbridge, Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, UK
7 November 1912, Berlin, Germany
29 October 1897, Rheydt [now Mönchengladbach], Germany
12 January 1893, Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany
27 December 1890, Market Giffard, Ivybridge, Devonshire, England, UK
21 September 1906, London, England, UK
30 November 1874, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK
20 April 1889, Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
January 24, 1919 in Heidelberg, Germany
16 March 1925, England, UK
19 July 1884, Sunderland, Tyne-and-Wear, England, UK
26 March 1892, Trani, Puglia, Italy
21 August 1900, London, England, UK
19 July 1919, West Derby, Liverpool, Lancashire [now in Merseyside], England, UK
11 July 1884, London, England, UK
1 August 1918, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK
15 November 1923, London, England, UK
1 March 1910, London, England, UK
26 October 1903, Bishop Stoke, England, UK
2 January 1904, Hamburg, Germany
27 July 1917, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
25 May 1888, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
3 October 1893, Woodford, England, UK
1 February 1917, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
19 October 1909, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
19 October 1913, Tottenham, London, 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.
