The Valour and the Horror - Death By Moonlight: Bomber Command (1992)

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1992 Canadian production about the Canadian pilots and air crews in the Royal Air Force Bomber Squadrons during World War II. Using interviews, re-enactments, old footage and photographs, Brian McKenna's film depicts the war from the perspective of those involved.

The Valour and the Horror is a Canadian television documentary miniseries, which aired on CBC Television in 1992. The series investigated three significant Canadian battles from the Second World War and was a co-production between the CBC, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and Galafilm Inc.
The central themes of Death By Moonlight are that RAF Bomber Command "deliberately hid the truth" about RAF bomber crew survival rates, concealed plans about deliberately annihilating civilians, and betrayed the trust of Canadian military airmen. The episode first aired on January 19, 1992.

The series was written by Brian McKenna, an award-winning journalist and founding producer of The Fifth Estate and his brother, Terence McKenna, and was directed by Brian McKenna.

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