Above and Beyond (2006)

Directed by

Sturla Gunnarsson

Genre

drama

Country

Canada

Length

1 season, 2 episodes

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of civilian pilots and crew are recruited to fly bombers from Canada to Britain during the early days of World War Two. The series follows their dangerous missions across the Atlantic Ocean and the personal costs of the war.

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What happens

Above and Beyond is a four-hour 2006 miniseries aired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on October 29 and 30, 2006. It stars Richard E. Grant, Jonathan Scarfe, Liane Balaban, Allan Hawco, Kenneth Welsh and Jason Priestley. The miniseries deals with the Atlantic Ferry Organization, tasked with ferrying aircraft from North America to Europe in the early years of the Second World War. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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