Last Flight to Berlin
Directed by James Hyslop2004 46m
In this film Robert Linnell (a filmmaker) documents in a personal way his father's war story on film. Robert Linnell never knew his father. His father was the pilot of a heavy bomber and was was shot down on a night bombing mission to Berlin in Germany in 1944. Linnell was only 2 months old when his father died. In this short film Linnell includes historical footage, accesses historical documents, interviews with family and other pilots who survived, a visit the forest in Germany near Berlin where his father's plane crashed after being shot down by a German night-fighter. Incredibly, Linnell managed to track down the pilot of the German night fighter who shot down his father's plane. A moving and personal account.
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