Synopsis
The Dam Busters (1955) is the British war film you can watch online on iFILM, built around a real RAF mission from the spring of 1943: take out the Ruhr dams with a weapon most experts had written off as impossible.
The first half is all engineering. Barnes Wallis (Michael Redgrave) spends years fighting to convince the brass that a bomb skipping across the water like a stone across a pond might actually work. The second half is the raid itself — 617 Squadron, led by Guy Gibson (Richard Todd), running low over the reservoirs through a wall of anti-aircraft fire. Michael Anderson directed.
That final approach down a narrow corridor toward the target would echo, almost shot for shot, in the Death Star trench run decades later. This is restrained, stiff-upper-lip war cinema where half the tension comes off a drawing board rather than a dogfight. Stream The Dam Busters (1955) online on iFILM.
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