My grandad was a polish spitfire pilot in Southampton. He was only 20 years old when he served Britain. So brave props to those airman and woman 🇬🇧

One freezing cold icy road snowing morning I get a phone call to go to the funeral of a pilot who survived WW2 as few folk were attending due to him been a loner. It was a honour to be at the funeral of the bravest man I ever met.

Rolls Royce Merlin, the greatest mechanical noise made by mankind .

We weren’t late we were just arriving in style

Magnificent flying scenes along with Ron Goodwin's brilliant music. Makes the hair stand up on my neck every time.

At the time of writing,Pilot officer John Hemingway, 103, is the last surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain.

As someone who has both British and Polish blood, I'm very proud of the brave airmen of both countries who defended Britain against the German aggressors in WW2.

Rolls Royce Merlin the original sound of freedom.

My uncle was 21 a BoB pilot. He said to me just before he passed away that if the Spitfire had been a human female she would have been one of the most beautiful and yet deadly woman on the planet. God bless all the brave boys and girls who served to keep this land of ours free.

As a young cop in Sunderland about 1990 i went to see an old couple who had their shed broken into. Over tea i noticed a large picture of a spitfire on the wall. "That was my plane" the old fella said.. He d Caught me off guard and i felt like saluting him. One of the few. Ill Never forget that god bless him.

Still makes the hairs on my neck stand up even after more then 40 years after I first heard it.

God bless the British,, Polish and Commonwealth men and women who gave there lives, spirit and time, like my grandad in RAF ground crew, to defeat evil.⚘

Its such a shame that you don't get any movie's like this anymore. this movie will always be a gem

:Help yourself lads, there's no fighter escort!"

makes me feel so proud of what those brave airmen did and not forgetting the women god bless

From the days when we had a country to be proud of

My parents took me to see this movie when it came out. I was spellbound through the entire film. Excellent music and aircraft. ❤

Brings tears everytime , such a wonderful rousing piece of music . The bravery of the young pilots and ground crews just amazing. Each time they flew they probably thought would be the last . Cant even begin to imagine that . Younger than my kids are .

18% in a battle of such fine margins - the Poles deserve a statue in central London.

Ah, the wonderful sound of the Rolls Royce Merlin engine. Some say the Spitfire was the most beautiful fighter of WW2. Yet the Hurricane had a beauty all its own.

My grandpa flew a spitfire in the battle of Britain, I showed him this clip, and his reaction was "Hmmm. Very accurate actually."

Ron Goodwin composition + Rolls Royce Merlin Engine made for one heck of a fine battle movie theme!

Simply iconic great music and film

Brilliant theme and very moving. The British War films of the 1950s and 1960s had some of the best themes ever. A fitting tribute to the brave men and women of both wars.

RIP Dad, and both my uncles, all RAF.......still get tears every time I hear this music

Phenomenal music.

Doesn't get old! it still sounds heroic in 2023! Incredible and impressive air combat shots! These can be recreated in the IL-2 videogame series! 😃

My family are British/Irish 🇬🇧🇮🇪this makes me so proud of the boys and girls who fought and died for us🌹☘️.

Forever By land Sea And sky The Brave British Will NEVER Be Forgotten 🇬🇧

Damn, as an Irish person this makes me uncontrollably patriotic,😂 just wanted to say thank you British pilots and soldiers, if British fell Europe would definitely fall🇮🇪🤝🇬🇧

Every old man my dad met in the 80's, would've either been a Spitfire pilot, a soldier, or just a bloke, and 8 times out of 10, it was a pilot.

Thanks to these boys we would not be in the world today without these

Puts the Great in Britain. Our finest hour.

If your British....you’ve still got it ya know!!! it comes from inside.

Just had a spitfire flight from biggin hill,brings a lump to your throat when your up in the sky

Absolutely nothing on this earth beats the roar of a Merlin overhead… well except maybe the scream of a boomerang but I’m a little bit there 😝

The greatest theme tune to the greatest war movie - EVER!

Met a Texan who'd flown for the film company. They apparently owed him a large sum when finished and he took a spitfire in payment. Saw a few yrs ago he was selling his collection including the spitfire still painted up as it was in the film. Liked his opinion on the spitfire saying "The P-51 Mustang wasn't any better than a spitfire it just did the same thing for longer"

To the Pilot who every year takes his personnel Spitfire out for a few high level loops whilst i am camping... I salute you. You are the icing on the cake for my trip.

To the Few...thank you from the hearts of all who enjoy the liberty of freedom

Ron Goodwin was a hell of a composer

Unfortunately it makes you sick how many died for our freedom and look how there repay us today😢

When England had a spine.

Bloody hell ! That spitfire at 2.14 dives in, then virtually stops mid air. What an incredible machine

Thanks for putting this back up! I used to have this on a playlist and on loop, but then it was removed; such a let down when that happened. Epic video!!

I love an inspirational theme like this of the RAF knocking the Jerries for six and foiling Operation Sealion. Backs to the wall stuff against the odds to save dear old Blighty from invasion. Tally Ho!!

30 years after the the second world war finished, we, school students, were still drawing WWll fighting machines. There were WWll comics and movies galore. We will never see the like again. Everything is remote, now. Fire and forget.

Goosebumps on my arms whever I hear this.

Thanks for the reupload. This video from the original channel got terminated for no reason.

It greatly depresses me to know these fierce warriors and legends are being replaced by blabbering idiots who can't even string a sentence together and break their own bloody laws. Thank you to ALL of the servicemen and servicewomen who fought so hard to protect the Land of Hope and Glory. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

This music should be played in every school assembly across Great Britain.

This film was the best tribute to all those brave men and women who sacrificed everything for us to live in a free country.🙏🙏🙏

I saw this film in 1978 at boarding school in Stourbridge I was 12 years old and I loved it, and I started building airfix kits ever since.

Once more into the breach my band of Brothers.

Non of that awful CGI. Just brilliantly conducted flying sequences, with large numbers of aircraft, and attention to detail . Look at the bombing attack on the Airfield, where the sound is properly syncronised with the explosions. i.e. you see the bombs go off in the distance before the sound reaches the actors, as it does in reality. The book 'The Narrow Margin' was the basis for the film, its a dry read , but accurate.(as far as possible)

We owe a big debt to all those who flew for the RAF.

One of the best war flicks of all time. The soundtrack including this theme song was great. The only issue I had with the movie is that it portrayed the Spitfire as pretty much the only contributor to the Battle of Britain but it was the Hurricane fighter that was responsible for most of the bomber kills. The Spitfires took on the Luftwaffe fighters while the Hurricanes went after the bombers for the most part though both had fighter and bomber kills. A salute to the brave men who fought in that conflict!

Can listen and whatch this everyday absolute quality

Just makes you feel very proud to British this music

What a magnificent engine sound 🇬🇧

Britain really did give the 2 fingers to Hitler.. And I say this as an IRISH man.. The raf defended the skies over Ireland and prevented a nazi invasion of Ireland... Thank you so much to those who served and fought.

As a Polish person I want to say thank you and give gratitude to all polish pilots who contributed in WW2 to defend Britain.

"Ja biorę prawego! Atakuję!" "Zostawcie coś dla mnie!" "Oh! Uważaj, jestem za tobą!" "Zostaw, ja go wezmę!" "Niemcy, Niemcy! Na dole!" *"OX WILL YOU PIPE DOWN"*

This going be my Flying Scottsmen theme

My favorite aviation movie and I love that theme…the music really works with that. The music called “ The Battle in the Air” featured on the big climactic battle is outstanding, and I’ve even heard it played on classical music stations.

The finest hour of the RAF

Bloody Marvellous!

This music and was the making of the movie. It will never be bettered.

Such an evocative piece of music! Great editing with the sounds of the Merlins going flat chat. Lest we forget!. Nuff said.

I get the chills each time I listen to this piece.

Brilliant piece of music One of my favourite lines from the film is when one of the ground crew asks Robert shaws character what to do with the German bomber crew that was shot down to which he replies...they made this mess get them to clean it up. Then he asks, what about the officers? To which he replies... get them a bloody shovel 😅

Makes me proud to be a British man now let us commence fourth

“Repeat please!”

Excellent film and music. Thank You for sharing it with us.

My great uncle was a wing commander during the second world war. I've always loved the film and music.

Hats off the polish pilots ✌️

They may have had the number but we had rolls Royce power, baby

If this doesn't give you goosebumps you must be dead inside!!

No CGI then. They threw everything into this: surviving aircraft, radio-controlled models, and some excellent photographic effects by Wally Veevers.

Beautiful, thanks for sharing

“Jutlandsquare,1939-1945 Wembley 1966.WE1.” - Jeremy Clarkson after beating German top gear.

just watched it again yesterday, it´s still one of my absolut favorit films... really old but really good.

god i wish someone would do a remake of this film with the cgi they have these days !!!! it would be mindblowing !!!!

Went the day well? We died and never knew, But, for good or ill, Freedom - we died for you. When you go home, tell them of us and say "For your Tomorrow these gave their Toay." Requiescant In Pace

My My What Awesome Music !! As if I m in the scene of action !! The Very Real Feeling - Too Good ! Mind Blowing !

The music of the winners

excellent

The brave men and women who flew the planes, maintained them, operated the radar stations, plotted the raids and directed the fighter interceptions etc etc kept us in the war in 1940 when so many thought that Britain would either be invaded or forced to sue for peace on Hitler's terms. If we had been knocked out of the war that would have given Hitler a free hand to put all the German strength against the Soviets without having to contend with commando raids, bomber raids, fighting the 8th Army in North Africa and so forth. The course of WW2 could have played out very differently. The debt of gratitude we owe to those brave men and women, and continue to owe them, is huge. Also a special word for Sir Hugh Dowding, the man at the top, on whose shoulders the fate of the nation rested in that Summer of 1940. He made the decisions that led to Britain surviving to fight against Hitler. So far as the music is concerned, it is a classic, very rousing and memorable. My dad took me to see the film at the cinema in 1969, when I would have been 7 or 8. In the foyer there were models of Spitfires and Hurricanes, a dummy of a pilot in flying suit and helmet, and other items that I can't remember too well. Still one of my favourite WW2 films.

That cockpit shot of the 109 and spitfires diving at a 109 formation looks insane to me 1:48

Cast: Ha-1112 buchón as Bf-109 Casa 2111 as He-111 Supermarine Spitfire as Supermarine Spitfire Hawker Hurricane as Hawker Hurricane

Blessed reupload.

Buggers broke in to the wrong damn basement. 🤣

Beautiful flying!!!

There is a quote in this film,that are young men are killing their young men.When will it ever end.

Did you know you can fly a spitfire in "The Crew 2"?

every time I see a spitfire all hurricane fly i here the Battle of Britain them music

A great theme and some excellent cinematography ! ☺

The dressing down the pilot gets from Christopher Plummer for that -aileron- victory roll at the end is a great scene.

Fantastic theme......so iconic

On paper, the far superior numbers of the Luftwaffe should have cleared the RAF from the skies over the UK. However the German's committed several blunders that prevented them from doing that, the main one was switching their attacks from British airfields to bombing London.