If the producers and the CBC itself had paid some attention to the CBC guidelines for productions, there is a chance that this might have been a more balanced film. Music is perhaps the most obvious of these effects, but they include such things as lighting, camera angles and sound effects. The director obviously has a satirical motive in doing this, especially as we already know his views of the British, Sir Arthur Harris and the High Command in general. The mixture of forms renders such a judgement difficult because it may lend the appearance of reality to hypothesis. Dramatic sequences, even when accurately documented, are still open to considerable misinterpretation and bias through voice and demeanour.
Sensationalism often prevails.
When it is clear that actors are not always using exact quotations extracted from the historical record, the dangers become even more pronounced. The botched quotation from Arthur Harris's memoirs and the contrived words of Robert Dale stand out. The producers claim that they made it clear that actors were being used. This is of course technically correct, since it is printed at the beginning of the video-tape, but since the average viewer would have no idea of the distortions of characterization being made in the presentation it is hardly a rationale. This sentence would lead viewers to believe that the actors are repeating words actually spoken by real people represented in the film, but the evidence is that the speeches given to actors are often misquoted or are unfinished quotes.