在不列颠战役的高潮时期，一群精疲力竭的喷火战斗机飞行员为了保卫他们的国家战斗到最后一个人。
一名刚刚完成训练的年轻飞行员被叫去参加一次飞行任务，他正在等待紧急起飞的指令。在这一天里，他目睹了英格兰南部的天空充斥着致命的空中战斗，在每一场令人疲惫的战斗之后，飞行员们都返回到他们的分散小屋，却发现又有一名同伴失踪了。他和飞行员战友们不愿意投降，他们团结起来，再次冲上天空，决心捍卫的不仅仅是机场，而是保卫整个国家。
梅尔·吉布森之子米洛·吉布森自在《血战钢锯岭》里献出表演首秀之后，再次加盟二战题材新片《飓风》，出演飞行员约翰尼·肯特。肯特是一名加拿大空军上尉，他在不列颠之战(第二次世界大战期间纳粹德国对英国发动的大规模空战，亦是第二次世界大战中规模最大的空战)中领导一支编号为303的霍克飓风战斗机飞行中队，为抵抗纳粹入侵而奋战，肯特一人击落了13架敌机，并在1935-1956期间服役于英国皇家空军， 被认为是最出色的年轻皇家空军中队长。大卫·布莱尔(《伯特与迪奇》《完美计划》)将执导此片，斯蒂芬妮·马蒂尼和《权力的游戏》男星伊万·瑞恩有望担任制片，计划九月英国开拍。
上世纪40年代初期，德国攻占英国前夕，瑞士的里克特男爵向英国大使凯利建议采取和平态度，因为抵抗纳粹无异于以卵击石，而凯利却拒绝接受他的建议，并宣称英国将抗战到底。英国当时的处境极其险恶，陆军在刚刚结束的法兰西战役中损失惨重，英国本土仅剩下780门火炮、160门反坦克炮和200辆坦克。空军也在战役中受到重创，损失了约1000架飞机，牺牲了435名富有经验的飞行员。英国皇家空军上将道丁已经察觉到一场大战迫在眉睫，他需要更多的飞机和飞行员。不久之后，丘吉尔首相宣布大不列颠之战正式开战。
故事发生在1939年，弗朗塔（奥德捷·维奇 Ondrej Vetchý 饰）是一名捷克飞行员，动乱与战争之中，他和名为卡瑞尔（克里斯托弗·哈德克 Krystof Hádek 饰）的年轻人之间结下了深厚的友谊。一次意外中，卡瑞尔所驾驶的飞机失事了，卡瑞尔并无大碍，幸运的他甚至因祸得福，结识了漂亮温柔的苏珊（塔拉·菲茨杰拉德 Tara Fitzgerald 饰）。 孤男寡女相识于战火纷飞之中，苏珊和卡瑞尔之间的关系很快便逾越了单纯的友情。回到部队后的卡瑞尔将自己的传奇经历告诉了弗朗塔，并将弗朗塔介绍给了苏珊。令卡瑞尔没有想到的是，苏珊深深的爱上了稳重帅气的弗朗塔，卡瑞尔和弗朗塔之间的友谊因此而产生了裂痕。 ©豆瓣
“这可是总体战。没有人能帮我们，欧洲大陆已经沦陷，我们孤身对抗猛兽。” “有史以来最美的机器”和她英雄的飞行员们赢得不列颠之战的故事。传奇的秀泼马林引擎轰鸣声中一场不可思议的历史之旅。
The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balance the struggle to impress his Group Captain, regain his pride, fit in with his fellow pilots, and survive one of the most intense air battles in history.
Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn Warsaw. During an air-raid, Radetzky meets American journalist Carole, and there is a mutual attraction. Following the fall of Poland, Radetzky and Irish pilot, Mike, escape to Rumania and then on to America. Radetzky continues his musical career in America and meets up again with Carole.
A ballerina resorts to prostitution when her fiance is reported killed in World War II.
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.
Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe. Without it the little island could well have been overrun.
Based on the book of the same title by best-selling author Henry Buckton, this film is enhanced by a fascinating series of interviews with a wide variety of people who played a vital role in Britain’s ‘finest hour’. Included are the captivating accounts of six fighter pilots who risked their lives day after day to combat the Luftwaffe, which was at that time greatly more experienced in aerial warfare. Their memories are enhanced by the recollections of a gunner, two members of the 400,000-strong ground crew who kept as many aircraft flying as possible, a barrage balloon operator and men who helped to build Spitfires.
七十年过去了，科林和伊万麦格雷戈兄弟带领观众一起经历不列颠之战的关键时刻，当时英国皇家空军的“少数人”面对纳粹德国空军的威力。当他们驾驶历史悠久的飞机、会见老兵、探索战术和技术时，科林和伊万见证了这场战役的重要性以及 二十世纪四十年代英国皇家空军战役的幸存遗产。
‘Spitfire— Birth of a Legend‘ tells the story of the Spitfire from a radical design on the drawing board to the fighter aircraft that became the symbol of Britain’s determination to fight on to victory. It celebrates the history of this acclaimed aircraft, the men who designed and built it, and those who flew and fought in it. The story, along with dramatic archive and colour film of aerial combat, graphically illustrates the appeal and fascination the Spitfire has maintained since it faced and fought the fighter and bomber formations of the Luftwaffe.