The Real Story of Radar

196128 min 6 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Joseph Koenig

Production: John Kemeny

In this film you see the role that radar played in World War II, and meet its inventor, Sir Robert Watson Watt. Excerpts from wartime films show radar's use in the Battle of the Atlantic and at Pearl Harbor. Greatly developed since then, radar is indispensable in air traffic control and space research.

Subject categories

  • Technology > Historical PerspectivesMilitary TechnologyRadio Technology and Radar
  • War, Conflict and Peace > World War II

Credits

director
Joseph Koenig
producer
John Kemeny