The Machine Gunners

The Machine Gunners

Limited Series 1983 · 6 eps · ★ 6.4 · Family, War & Politics

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During the Second World War, a group of youth in the Northeast England town of Garmouth regularly suffer from bomb attacks by the German forces. One of the children raids a crashed German aircraft and takes a fully operational machine gun, intending to set up their own fortress. Playing with it causes a German plane to crash-land; the kids befriend the pilot, who is unaware that they had caused him to crash.

Created by William Corlett

Network: BBC One

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