Castles in the Sky

Castles in the Sky (2014)

England, while the storm clouds of Nazism menace Germany. Robert Watson Watt and a team of eccentric and brilliant meteorologists struggle to turn the mere idea of radar into a functional reality.

Date of release
2014-10-07
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (15)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Drama, History, TV Movie, War
Director
Gillies MacKinnon

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Edinburgh

Castles in the Sky is a British fact-based television drama first broadcast on BBC Two on 4 September 2014. The movie shows Robert Watson-Watt and other British scientists' struggle to invent radar in the years leading to World War II.

Production

Castles in the Sky was commissioned by Janice Hadlow for BBC Two and Kim Shillinglaw, head commissioner for science and natural history. It was produced by Simon Wheeler for Hero Film and Television with Arabella Page Croft and Kieran Parker as co-producers for Black Camel Pictures. Gillies MacKinnon directed and Ian Kershaw was the writer who had worked on Shameless.

Locations on the east coast of Scotland were used as filming locations including, Dunbar Beach and Hedderwick Sands in East Lothian, Newbattle Abbey and Arniston House in Midlothian, Gosford House in Longniddry and in Edinburgh. Mark Russell composed the musical score, whilst the costume designer was Gill Horn. Wheeler said that he hoped the film would illuminate the "sex appeal" of science.

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