Coastal Command is a 1942 British film made by the Crown Film Unit for the Ministry of Information. The film, distributed by RKO, dramatised the work of RAF Coastal Command.

Coastal Command is a documentary-style account of the Short Sunderland and Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boats during the Battle of the Atlantic. The film includes real footage of attacks on a major enemy ship by Hudson and Beaufort bombers based in Iceland.

The music for Coastal Command is derivative of RVW’s concert music, particularly of his Fifth and Sixth symphonies yet it sympathetically evokes the aspirations and dangers of the crews of the Sunderland and Hudson flying boats that patrolled the waters off Iceland and across the North Sea in search of hostile German shipping during World War II, the subject of this Crown Film Unit documentary. Such cue titles as ‘U-boat Alert’, ‘Taking Off at Night’, ‘Dawn Patrol (Quiet Determination)’ and ‘Battle of the Beauforts’ suggest the varying moods of the music.