Following on from the Emmy® Award-winning WWII Lost Films, WWII Lost Films - The Air War is the next landmark documentary to present visually restored, never-beforeseen archival footage in stunning HD colour. This 2 hour HISTORY™ special travels with 4 US WWII veterans through the history of a battlefield 25,000 feet in the air. Flying 25,000 feet above the earth in oxygen-devoid air, and temperatures as low as 50 below zero, the 8th Air Force fought a war unlike anything ever before experienced.

By the end, they would suffer more than 26,000 combat deaths - more than the US Marines lost in all of World War II. This special is narrated by Emmy nominated actor, Rob Lowe. Characters are voiced by: Casey Affleck (as B-17 bombardier Joe Armanini); Sean Astin (as P-47 fighter pilot Steve Pisanos); Chris O’Donnell (as B-17 pilot John Gibbons); Elijah Wood (as Stars & Stripes reporter Andy Rooney)