In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against the combined might of European fascism. After the fall of France, Belgium and the Low Countries, Hitler turned his insatiable appetite for Lebensraum to British shores. In order to launch his planned invasion (codenamed Operation Sea Lion), Germany would have to achieve decisive air superiority over the Royal Air Force.

As photo reconnaissance aircraft recorded a huge armada of Invasion barges being gathered along the coasts of Belgium, Holland and France, the British knew that to prevent a quarter of a million Nazi storm troopers from invading, they would have to defeat them in the air.

During the Battle of Britain, which began in July, the Luftwaffe aimed to neutralise the RAF, destroy Britain’s aircraft industry and infrastructure, and demoralise the civilian population. During over a hundred days of ferocious airborne fighting, almost 3000 aircraft were shot down; over 3800 crew members were injured. The epic struggle also led to the tragic deaths of over 30,000 civilians.

This film offers an unprecedented viewpoint of the famous battle. Both British and German aerial reconnaissance photographs taken at the time have now been layered over a 3 dimensional contour map to create a CGI ‘model’ of the battle. These high resolution images allow the viewer to track the battle, step by step, from the air. We meet the pilots who participated in these dramatic events, placing individual stories of courage and heroism can be placed in the exact location where they took place.

Using cutting edge technology, unique archive film, re-enactments and extraordinary interviews with ‘the few’ who survived, this documentary provides us with an insightful and revolutionary new image of the struggle for Britain’s skies.