In conversation: Pressure: The history behind the new film
The D-Day Story
Date: 5th Sep 2026 - 5th Sep 2026
Time: 11:00-12:00
Price: Range from £5 or free admission with a museum ticket or annual pass (subject to availability)Dr Catherine Ross, National Meteorological Library and Archive, Met Office, in conversation with Andrew Whitmarsh, curator of The D-Day Story.
Find out more about how the Allies predicted the weather for D-Day, and the consequences if they had got it wrong, in collaboration with the Met Office.
Tickets £5.
The event is free to anyone with a ticket for visiting The D-Day Story that day (subject to availability), or a current annual pass for the museum.
“Pressure” – in cinemas September 9.
In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, and with the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, PRESSURE follows General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Brendan Fraser) and Group Captain James Stagg (Andrew Scott) as they face an impossible choice — launch the largest and most dangerous seaborne invasion in history or risk losing the war altogether.