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Released
1944 · FILM

The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress

Fly and Fight with the Crew on an Actual Bombing Mission Over Germany!

Directed by
Runtime
45 min
DocumentaryHistoryWar
Streaming on
  • HBO Max

Synopsis

This WW2 documentary centers on the crew of the American B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle as it prepares to execute a strategic bombing raid on Nazi submarine pens in Wilhelmshaven, Germany.

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Principal cast & crew: 15

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Lynn HarrisonScored by Gail Kubik

Also known as

  • The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortressen
  • Bajo cielos enemigoses
  • La bella di Memphisit

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