1983FamilyWar & Politics0h 25m

The Machine Gunners

During the Second World War, a group of youth in the Northeast England town of Garmouth regularly suffer from bomb attacks by the German forces. One of the children raids a crashed German aircraft and takes a fully operational machine gun, intending to set up their own fortress. Playing with it causes a German plane to crash-land; the kids befriend the pilot, who is unaware that they had caused him to crash.

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StatusEnded
Original Languageen
Network
BBC One

Keywords

world war iinorthern englandchildren gangbased on children's book1940schildren in wartime

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BBC
BBC