The Eighty Days (1944)
Humphrey Jennings’s Crown Film Unit short on the summer 1944 V-1 “doodlebug” campaign, tracking a salvo from the coast toward London as it runs Britain’s layered defenses—coastal AA guns, RAF fighters, and barrage balloons—capturing both interception and impact in a stark report of terror and resilience.
- Date of release
- 1944-01-02
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 14m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Humphrey Jennings
Casting
- Edward R. Murrow — Self (commentator)
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