The Airship Destroyer (originally titled Der Luftkrieg Der Zukunft, also titled "The Aerial Torpedo", "The Battle of the Clouds" in the United Kingdom and "The Battle in the Clouds" in the United States) is a 1909 British silent science fiction trick film directed by Walter R. Booth.
A fleet of airships begin an attack on England, bombing an armoured vehicle, a signal box and a town.
One of the airship's bombs lands on the home of the inventor's lover, whose hand in marriage he had unsuccessfully asked her father for earlier in the day.
Walter R. Booth, who had a background as a magician, was an early pioneer of special effects in film and also of animation.
It was re-released in January 1915, during World War I, at a time when Britain was suffering aerial bombings from Zeppelins.