Filmed on location, The Big Lift is a reenactment of the Berlin airlift of 1948. Flexing their postwar muscles, the Russians blockade the Western sector, refusing to allow the Allies to ship supplies to the starving Berliners. From their headquarters at Templehof Airport, a group of courageous American flyers risk their lives to transport supplies by air

Director: George Seaton
Producer: William Perlberg
Production Company: Twentieth Cetnury Fox
Sponsor: k-otic
Audio/Visual: sound, black & white