"Blimp is Powell & Pressburger's first really profound and personal film and for me, their first masterpiece. I've watched it so many times that it's become part of my life. And the longer I live, the stronger grows my sense of what the characters are feeling. It's the film that says the most to me about growing up, growing old, and eventually having to let go." - Martin Scorsese

From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.