
BAFTA Nomination 2024

VMA Best Documentary Nomination 2020

Webby Best Sports Documentary Nomination 2020

RTS Craft Nomination 2016

BAFTA Nomination 2007

Fly International Festival Best Documentary, 2011

Grierson Shortlist 2010

Emmy Award 2004
British Academy Craft Nomination 2004
Satellite Award Best DVD 2009

The dramatic side has it all: sceptical British commanders, sex with WRENs, an untameable Nazi-hating maverick and spectacularly tally-ho dogfight action. The intercut testimony of surviving Polish airmen is just as enthralling.
Time Out

An achievement that's more than considerable. It's a rare one in the genre of documentaries about people kidnapped abroad or unjustly imprisoned—rare in its capacity to render the essence of such an experience with a depth, and with the kind of detail, that can make viewers feel it in their bones.
The Washington Post

Writer and director Carl Hindmarch's restrained unsensationalist and compelling drama-documentary about the first day of the battle of the Somme was one of the most touching films on the subject - due in part to the effortful balance between drama and documentary with much of the latter culled from the war's official photographer Geoffery Mallins.
The Observer

A haunting and important hour of television
Daily Mail