Castles in the Sky

Eddie Izzard stars in this inspiring factual drama about Robert Watson-Watt who demonstrated for the first time in 1935 that aircraft could be detected using radio waves. By the time the war began in 1939, radar stations were dotted along the British coast. This drama follows the early years as Robert Watson-Watt and his team of scientists worked tirelessly to see their invention taken seriously.

IMDb 6.81 h 29 min2014

X-Ray13+

Drama·Historical·Cerebral·Inspiring

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Content advisory: Violencealcohol usefoul language

Audio languages: English

Subtitles: English [CC]

Directors: Gillies MacKinnon

Producers: Simon Wheeler

Starring: Eddie Izzard Alex Jennings David Hayman

Studio: BBC America

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