The true story of the youngest Spitfire pilot to fight in the Battle of Britain — Geoffrey Wellum was just 18 when he was thrown into combat as a fighter pilot in the terrifying air war of the Battle of Britain. Now seventy... more » years on and aged 89, he is still haunted by the conflict that almost destroyed him.
Based on his personal, deeply moving memoirs, First Light is an intimate drama-documentary that delivers a compelling testimony of Geoffrey 'Boy' Wellum's (Sam Heughan - Any Human Heart) wartime experiences, revisiting the stark emotions and fiery action that dazzled and terrified him as a young man and changed his life forever. Combining Wellum's powerful first person account with intensely evocative action on the ground and in the air, it is the story of a boy who went to war and came back a broken man.« less