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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
21 September 1906, London, England, UK
20 April 1889, Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
16 March 1880, Penwortham, Preston, Lancashire, England, UK
15 November 1923, London, England, UK
16 March 1925, England, UK
1 August 1918, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK
19 July 1919, West Derby, Liverpool, Lancashire [now in Merseyside], England, UK
26 June 1889, Dublin, Ireland
27 December 1890, Market Giffard, Ivybridge, Devonshire, England, UK
7 November 1912, Berlin, Germany
13 February 1899, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire, England, UK
19 October 1909, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
30 November 1874, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK
January 24, 1919 in Heidelberg, Germany
19 July 1884, Sunderland, Tyne-and-Wear, England, UK
11 July 1884, London, England, UK
4 June 1892, London, England, UK
27 July 1917, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
25 May 1888, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
1 March 1910, London, England, UK
29 October 1897, Rheydt [now Mönchengladbach], Germany
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.