they TheDamBusters Movie 1-Disc Box Set for Gift Collection Blu-ray

Plot Summary

The 1954 British film "The Dam Busters" almost documented in documentary form the "punitive action" carried out by the Royal Air Force on the evening of May 16, 1943 during World War II. This film, details the Allied efforts to target German dams during World War Two. In very methodical, but also enthusiastic fashion, they figured out what plane, what bomb, what angle, what altitude, etc., were necessary to inflict maximum damage to the dams, while minimizing losses to the planes. The answer they came up with, sounds absurd, but it worked: very large, cylindrical bombs rotating backwards at a high rate of speed, causing them, when dropped, to skip along the sureface of the water, right up to the base of the dam. It is not an easy task to blow up a dam. The movie provides a detailed introduction to the design process of the bomb designer and the process of the British military adopting this plan (because it sounds like a fantasy at first glance). This movie is by no means boring, and even quite exciting. The film was nominated for Best Effects at the 28th Academy Awards and for Best Picture, Best British Film, and Best Screenplay at the 9th British Academy Film Awards.