Bölünmüş olan adanın her iki yakasında da özlemleri ve acılarıyla yaşayan binlerce insan var. Savaşın kazananı olmadığının belgeseli benim için. Vatanını seven, gerçek kıbrıslı türk ve rumların tekrardan barışı inşa etme çabalarının başarılı olmasını diliyorum. Umarım çocuklarımız başarır.

There's something about flying boats that fascinates me, there so cool to watch land and takeoff.

I think everyone on that island should leave and be replaced by a completely different set of people, Irish perhaps, or Nepalese or any other people. This would be a great lesson in history. They have all lost their rights to live on that land due to their stupidity and their failure to take a stand against evil when it was necessary to do so. They failed to unite against the British Imperialists. They failed to oppose the fascists from Greece and Turkey. They looked on and walked on by while their most precious sons and daughters were being picked up one by one and killed for speaking the truth until there was no one left other than hate preachers. And now they are talking about their properties. What use is a property after all that has happened? I’ve seen those properties. Most of them are derelict. The ones that are occupied have not had a fresh coat of paint for 50 years. It was depressing. I went to both the northern side and the southern side. I couldn’t breathe. The air was filled with hatred and decay. I spoke to the people. I looked for hope, an understanding. There was none. Nothing has changed. No lessons learned. I saw a young east European girl, barely 16 sitting at a table surrounded by overweight men in their late fifties at some hideous five star hotel. The only thing that brought a smile to my face was the sight of the gorgeous wild donkeys roaming free on the highway. Some people said that it was all the fault of the politicians. That’s what they always say…

My mother was a midwife in the RCAF after the war . They used to fly to remote places in the North and deliver Inuit babies in converted Lancasters.

Cyprus was Greek land and what happen there was the diabolical plan of Britain to serve their geopolitical interests .The military government in Greece was controlled by NATO so were the fanatics who overthrow the legal government on Cyprus .The British are experts in creating problems and making people kill each other to serve their own interests .One thing we Greeks Cypriots know is our history and we don’t need others to teach it to us .Because of the Greeks you the other countries excelled in science and literature in other words we educated you , and please put an end to this crime you are committing .

Tellement JAUNET...

FAFO

Dad was a tail gunner in Lancs, brave men!

I have been to Famagusta today , it has to be the saddestvplace I have ever seen

Just visited vorasha how sad

Thank you for the upload!

Wow, when I was a kid I used to watch this over and over on VHS. I must have been 5 or 6 years old. Absolutely stoked to have found it again, thanks for sharing.

I had a dear friend who served as a navigator on the Lancaster. He was small in stature so was suited to be in the compartment for the navigator. He was affected by the experience and didn't like to talk about it as he survived but many of his fellow air men didn't. They never knew if they would return. Remembrance day was always a difficult day for him and he felt guilty about the bombs they dropped as well as sad for his friends. He was a very fine man and lived into his nineties.

God bless all those brave Canadian soldiers who made our country strong and free and gave us the freedoms we have.

Just seen this unique glimpse of the imperial period! My partner's father Peter Horn was a wartime RAF pilot who was seconded to BOAC mid WW2. He stayed on after the war and flew C Class flying boats from UK to SA.He was the captain of the last BOAC flight from Durban in march 1947 in the Caledonia with BOAC staff and his South African wife Helen. The cine footage she took has sadly decayed over time. So this doco brings the journeys of the privileged back to life!!

And The British government since the end of the war has destroyed the car industry ,mining steel industry,import goods made by cheap labour , Those that call the British working people lazy should watch this documentary, And know what the United kingdom is able to do with good leadership and motivation, 🤔🙉🙈🙊🕊️🕊️

My grandfather served in the RCAF as a flight mechanic aboard the Lancasters. I honestly don't know much about his service as he didn't openly speak about that time in his life. I only heard stories at his memorial after he passe away. It was an eye opening experience.

Great tribute to crew’s and Lancaster.

Thank you! Very interesting.

Magnificent doc,thankyou for posting.

My bro in law's father worked in the port city of Famagusta and when the Turks invaded they shot him in the head after his family fleed to the south to this day there's a Turk family living in their old home

couldn't be done now they would be too busy checking their emails and their TikTok accounts and worrying about snapping a fingernail and checking to see if their make is OK for the cameras, and that's the men,

I had the opportunity to revisit this interesting documentary again, and there are no doubt many passionate posts in the comments section. Most are typical of the comments made about this intractable problem, and i am not surprised, as they are made by people who are ill informed either as a result of being fed erroneous information to suit certain political ideologies or based on a poor understanding of the actual facts. Ultimately the British could not be seen to have lost the plot in Cyprus, especially since they'd just been humiliated over the so called Suez crisis, so they had to make an example of Cyprus so show the rest of the world that they still had an empire, just as the French were forced to do in Algeria. So they came up with what constitutional lawyers at the time termed an uniquely unworkable independence package for the island, which made disproportionate provisions for the Turkish minority, then blackmailed Makarios with partition so that he would sign the treaty, promptly departed and then stood by and waited for the ticking bomb to go off as the two communities made attempts to understand how to make the mess left behind was going to work. Of course they kept substantial territory for military use, ie spying for the Americans, special relation obligations etc, and there you have it, all set up to blow up into full scale intercummunal violence, which it did in 1964. The rest tragic, so who is to blame, well .....

This is the concept of All out War. Whatever means necessary. Can be described as an act of terrorism. Whoever describe himself as sovereign. So thefore villains and hero's can change only in the eye's of the side's.

Thank you for the Upload. My Father was the Editor for this documentary. (Peter Rose) They received a Bafta for this Documentary. He passed away recently. May this upload keep his memory and the memory of the other people who worked on this film and are no longer with us alive. Dad, we miss you very much.

Loved it!

Yasasin kuzey kibris Türk cumhuriyeti,yasasin Türk Silahli Kuvvetleri,onlar soydaslarimizi kanli katillerden kurtardi,Kuzey Türk cumhuriyeti sonsuza dek hür olarak yasayacaktir........

Director David Wallace & Editor Peter Rose. They've won the BAFTA for best documentary in 1991 with this film.

Makarios did not take his people into war but was forced into an impossible situation created by British influence and territorial claim.

Any nation that requires information will, in secret, round up any individual who they think will provide vital information by the most brutal of ways. All nations, there is no humane nation in this world that would not do the same.

The whole political situation was based on just one thing. That is the British political and military strategic value in the Mediterranean.

When I arrived to live in Kenya 1991, I was informed by a pilot who I knew that Bill Cragg had been shot down by a missile doing exactly what he was warning about in this film. Uncanny.

I presume they didnt use cartridges to start the engines as in Flight of the Phoenix!

In those days it was a smooth water landing on Lake Naivasha then a 60 mile safari to the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi for dinner and a good night's sleep.

fabulous documentary ... fabulous plane

How low had the "British Empire" fallen. They sent their top soldief Chief of the Imperial General Staff to control an Island which had only 253 armed partisans. How low can the British empire had fallen was unbelievanle. Blinded, and still struggling to come to terms with the fact that the "empire days" had finished in 1945, they even turned against nations that had been their allies through two world wars....YES THE GREEKS AND THE CYPRIOTS. NO Turkish army was seen in Libya, France, Italy...when Britain most needed allies ALL THE CYPRIOTS AND GREEKS WERE THERE. Then in 1955 they pretended not to understand. It is our belief that NEVER AGAIN shall we the Cypriots and Greeks trust the British.

If you are willing to use terrror and murder to gain control of government, then you are will rule by terror and murder. You won't reform, you won't liberalize.

I dunno. Even today. Choice, being ruled by inefective defective democracy of Greece, a autocratic Islamic strongman in Turkey with hints of coruption and megalomania, ineffective self-rule of squabling Greek Cypriots and Turk Cypriots, or even handed law abding liberal if non-democratic rule by British. I'd choose the British.

İmagine a president, was also a leader of eoka and allocating money, ammunition, machine guns all over the island. What kind of presidenceny is this? Total shame !

One of the best documentaries about commercial aviation and aviation in general. If anyone can point me to more like this I will greatly appreciate it - and others watching this too

My father trained on Catalinas at Pensacola on the Empire training scheme in WW2. When I managed to pass my flying test father told me i was not a proper pilot until I won my water wings. So I checked into Jack Brown's Seaplane Base in Florida and had a great time flying Piper Cub Floatplanes. Chuck Brown I think thought I was becoming a bit too overconfident so on the final flying test he asked me if I thought that I could put it down in a small lake below. "Sure" I said, brimming with confidence, and put it down easily with much room to spare. "That was real nice," he said " real nice landing" bit of a pause "Had Y'all thought about how you are going to fly outa here?!" I looked ahead and realised my error, like the Catalina you need a long take off run compared to the water landing which is like ABS brakes "O K Chuck ,you got me, I suppose that I shall have to pay for a recovery truck to teach me a lesson" Another long pause while I was calculating how little money I had left and then he said "I have control" and we proceeded to go round the lake in a circle, faster and faster and then on to one float until we picked up enough speed, turned into the wind and took off easily! Now that was a first for me!

Africa is so beautiful and so are the people. Individually. But look at South Africa, murder rape, corruption. It was ever thus. And I don't see it changing anytime this century. That fills me with great sadness. And yes I have been to many parts of it, and many times.

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Harris' imperialist "career" of bombing civilians started in Iraq after WW1, when the terror bombing was hidden behind the term "Air Policing".

@39:45 How is stress a thing in a traditional tribal village on an island ? It goes against all we know in psychology.

Designed by Barnes Wallace of Bouncing bomb Dambusters fame.

The end of the video shows dual controls. Was this a one off version?

Please don’t forget London and Zurich Peace Agreement in 1959. The President Makarios refused that agreement to signed but Secret Service MI6 has registered Mr.Makarioss homo- sexuality of activation in Monastry .MI6 has showed him this movie , another that day he has signed .

Thank you 227 beau for non pol You Tube video.

Thanks for the upload. Had this on VHS back in the day, recorded from the BBC back when they had programmes worth watching.