Just a thought about the film / mini-series argument; couldn’t ‘Dambusters’, or any other subject for that matter, have been released in both formats?

The two most impressive ‘war films’ in my opinion are Band of Brothers and Das Boot which were both made originally in the mini-series format, but Das Boot was also released in the cinema in a shortened film format; it was done, successfully, nearly forty years ago so surely it could be done again today (especially with the proliferation of TV channels these days).