Director：Michael Anderson 

Performer：Michael Redgrave  Ursula Janis  Charles Carson  Stanley Van Beers  Colin Tarpley  Frederick Lester  ec messiter  laidman bwne  raymond tley  hugh manning 

The 1954 British "Bombing of the Ruhr Dam" (the dam busters), almost in the form of a documentary, records the "punishment operation" carried out by the British Royal Air Force on the night of May 16, 1943 during World War II. this film, details the allied efforts to target german dams ding world war o. in very methodical, but also enthusiastic fashion, they figed 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 absd, but it worked: very large, cylindcal bo tating backwards at a high rate of speed, csing them, when ped, to skip along the face of the water, up to the base of the dam. It is not easy to blow up a dam. It introduces in detail the design process of the bomb designer and the process of the British adopting this plan (because it sounds like a fantasy at first). This film is by no means boring, and even quite interesting. Excitingly. The film was nominated for the 28th Academy Award for Best Effects and 3 nominations for Best, Best British and Best Screenplay at the 9th British Academy.