The Buildings That Fought Hitler

Another disappointing documentary from Rob Bell. Why do documentaries need to over sensationalise history?! This style of TV is the sort of crap that the US produces - dumbed down and patronsing. Yeah I get that they cheaper to produce using the same stock footage over and over, but this is intolerable.

Perhaps we need a.presenter who doesn't talk to us like we are watching CBeeBees. The show is aimed at adults isn't it?! Talk to us like we are adults.

It's scary what gets commissioned these days and claimed as a history documentary, They need to employ better researchers and get them to work with the show editors.

This is a brilliant, informative documentary series, packed full of detail you never learnt at school. It shows how to deal with the enemy and even more the preparedness, guile, ingenuity despite almost zero modern technology and the sheer cunning and insight of the people behind the construction of these buildings. Eminently watchable. Ignore the ignorance of some of those commenting here. The message is clearly lost on their closed minds.

I'm really amazed that a potentially good series can be let down by rubbish research (and I really have to choke as I use the word "research"). In a recent episode about RAF Kenley Bell comments that the Hawker Hurricane needed concrete runways. This is the first piece of poor research. The Hurricane had a wide track undercarriage which meant it could be used on grass runways that were unusable by the Spitfire (narrow track undercarriage and hard to land) which DID require concrete strips.

The second mistake (and equally as big a howler) was the statement by Bell "on August 18 RAF Kenley was attacked by Dorniers, the Luftwaffe's devastating heavy bomber". Now unlike the RAF the Luftwaffe only had one heavy bomber that actually saw action, the Hienkel 177, and it was not used in the Battle of Britain. The Dornier was a light/medium bomber (both the model 17 and 217) and was in fact a somewhat mediocre aircraft, lacking the bomb load of the Hienkel 111 or the speed of the Junkers 88, and had very inadequate defensive armament. I'm all for enthusiasm but bulldust delivered enthusiastically is still bulldust. History does not need exaggeration, because then it is fiction, not history. When poor research is so obvious how much more of this series is bulldust?

Very disapointing, constant repeating of facts, constant reshowing of the same WW2 film clips to the point of stupidity. Nearly all movie clips are inacurate, for an example DO17 dropping bombs to the sound of a Stuka. Even showing RAF aircraft when talking about German attackers, many statements are also incorrect.

This programe could have lasted 30 minutes if they reduced the constant reapeating; an insult to the intelligence!

To sum up, I learned nothing and an hour of my life wasted.