Coastal Command (film)

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Coastal Command
DVD
Directed by	J. B. Holmes
Produced by	Ian Dalrymple
Starring	Roger Hunter Charles Norman Lewis
Cinematography	Teddy Catford (credited as Edward Catford) Fred Gamage Jonah Jones
Edited by	Michael Gordon
Music by	Ralph Vaughan Williams
Production companies	Crown Film Unit, Ministry of Information
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures (1944) (USA)
Release dates	1942 (1942) 18 April 1944 (1944-04-18) (U.S.)[1]
Running time	72 minutes (UK) 60 minutes (US)
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Coastal Command is a 1942 British film made by the Crown Film Unit for the Ministry of Information. The film, distributed by RKO, dramatised the work of RAF Coastal Command.

Coastal Command is a documentary-style account of the Short Sunderland and Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boats during the Battle of the Atlantic. The film includes real footage of attacks on a major enemy ship by Hudson and Beaufort bombers based in Iceland.