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A Bridge Too Far

The Allies have a daring plan to stop World War II by the end of 1944. Called Operation Market Garden, it involves parachuting 35,000 troops into occupied Holland to capture a strategic line of bridges. Could it work? Or are they going a bridge too far?

2 hours, 47 minutes

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Sunday14:45
BBC Two

Credits

Lt Gen BrowningDirk Bogarde
Sgt Eddie DohunJames Caan
Lt Col Joe VandeleurMichael Caine
Maj Gen UrquhartSean Connery
Lieutenant General HorrocksEdward Fox
Lieutenant Colonel FrostAnthony Hopkins
Major General SosabowskiGene Hackman
Doctor SpaanderLaurence Olivier
Brigadier General GavinRyan O'Neal
Major CookRobert Redford
Lieutenant General BittrichMaximilian Schell
RAF Met OfficerDenholm Elliott
DirectorRichard Attenborough
WriterWilliam Goldman
ProducerJoseph E Levine

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