This film, details the Allied efforts to target German dams during World War Two. In very methodical, but also enthusiastic fashion, they figured out what plane, what bomb, what angle, what altitude, etc., were necessary to inflict maximum damage to the dams, while minimizing losses to the planes. The answer they came up with, sounds absurd, but it worked: very large, cylindrical bombs rotating backwards at a high rate of speed, causing them, when dropped, to skip along the sureface of the water, right up to the ba
要炸掉水坝,可不是容易的工作,影戏详细先容了炸弹设计者的设计过程,以及英国军方采纳这个计划的过程(由于乍听起来其实像是天方夜谭),这个影戏看起来决不有趣,甚至是相配使人冲动地。该片获第28届奥斯卡最好结果奖提名及第9届英国影戏学院最好影戏,最好英国影戏和最好编剧3项提名。