2 x 47' HD, In Production (Due December 2010 - Trailer Available)

This documentary tells the story of the Royal Flying Corps bitter struggle for air supremacy over the Western Front and its primary purpose of serving the needs of the Army and the new masters of the battlefield – the heavy guns. This is a reality far removed from the popular image of a battle detached from the squalid, brutal frightfulness of trench warfare.

As well as carefully researched film and photographic archive material and dramatic graphic and digital effects, the programme will incorporate colour film from various major feature films to recreate the drama and savagery of air combat. We will also use the actual words of those who took part in the fighting by accessing the vast collection of personal documents held by the Imperial War Museum and the RAF Museum, using diaries, letters, combat report and sound recordings of veteran WWI pilots telling of their thoughts, fears, exhilaration and terror.

War Above the Trenches will not only relate the broad sweep of the progress of aerial combat during the Great War, it will show the human price paid to gain mastery of the skies, from early, innocent days to a time of near breaking point.