Overview - The Greatest Raid of All Time

Date of release

Genres

  • Documentary

Runtime: 60 minutes

Homepage: The Greatest Raid of All Time

Budget

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Spoken Languages

  • English

Production companies

  • Name: North One Television

    Production country United Kingdom

Overview

Jeremy Clarkson tells the story of what’s been called ‘the original Mission Impossible’ – the audacious Commando raid on the German occupied dry dock at St. Nazaire in France on March 28th 1942. Operation Chariot, as the raid was codenamed, had a simple aim – to destroy the dry dock and thus deny the German battleship Tirpitz a safe haven on the Atlantic coast of France. There were many who thought the mission too risky, but the Chief of Combined Operations, Louis Mountbatten, pushed forward. This programme explores the story around March 26th 1942, when Commandos in Cornwall boarded their floating bomb and set off to see if the element of surprise really could overcome all the odds.

Cast

  • Name: Jeremy Clarkson

    Character: Presenter

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  • Name: Sam Beattie

    Character: Himself

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  • Name: Micky Burn

    Character: Himself

    Popularity: 0.0218

  • Name: Eric de la Torre

    Character: Himself

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