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  • British Ambassador Sir David Kelly gives the Nazi Germany Ambassador's threats and false promises the only response they deserve.
    "If you think we're going to gamble on Herr Hitler's guarantees, you're making a grave mistake. All those years in England seems to have left you none the wiser. We're not easily frightened. Also we know how hard it is for an army to cross the Channel. The last little Corporal who tried came a cropper. So don't threaten or dictate to us until you're marching up Whitehall... and even then we won't listen."
    • Despite talking in a mostly calm tone of voice the entire time, the ambassador afterwards shamefully admits to his wife that he lost his temper for not fully suppressing the sheer rage he was feeling. It's a wonderful piece of acting by Sir Ralph Richardson, who is positively vibrating with anger as he delivers the lines.
  • The Polish pilots. When their training company is in the path of an incoming German raid, the British officers worry that the Poles will get massacred and order them to return to base. However, the second the pilots see "Nazi" planes they ignore their British CO - "Repeat, please" - and go flying off to engage the Germans. The Poles blast every German plane down while yelling insults to the Germans in Polish, convincing the RAF to promote the company to active status. In Real Life, despite their Hot-Blooded behavior, the Polish pilots were among the bravest and best pilots the Allies had.
  • Frustrated by setbacks, the Germans send in a massive attack on September 15, to which the Allies send up every plane they've got to defend London. A stunning montage of dogfights and crashing bombers, with no dialogue relying entirely on the visuals and the musical score, ensue. In Real Life this was the biggest fight in the Battle.
    • Followed by the next day: The morning at British Air Command is utterly quiet. All of the personnel are just sitting and waiting, staring at the large map of Britain and the English Channel with no sightings of German bombers. "Bastards are up to something," Air Marshal Park muses, and the next scene cuts to German troops... tossing aside gear and marching away from the Calais ports. The invasion of Great Britain had been called off, Goring fleeing from the scene yelling at his officers for betraying him. The film ends with Air Marshal Dowding looking up at a clear blue sky as Churchill's famous quote "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" appears on the screen. In Real Life the war continued and the Germans would send bombing raids every so often over England, but the Allies controlled the air from then on, and would go on to win the war.

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