Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water

Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water

1948 · 107 min · ★ 5.4 · Action, War, Drama

A factual reconstruction of the sabotage events which took place to prevent Hitler's Germany from getting the heavy water needed to make an atomic bomb during the Second World War.

Directed by Jean Dréville

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