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London Can Take It! is a 1940 short British propaganda film directed by by Humphrey Jennings and Harry Watt and narrated by US journalist and war correspondent Quentin Reynolds. [1] It was produced by the GPO Film Unit for the British Ministry of Information and distributed throughout the United States by Warner Bros. [ 2 ] The film shows the ...
Words for Battle (also known by its original title In England Now) is a British propaganda film produced by the Ministry of Information's Crown Film Unit in 1941. [1] It was written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, and features seven sequences, each containing images of rural and urban Britain at war overlaid with audio commentary by Laurence Olivier, reciting passages from different English ...
Channel Incident is a 1940 British short (15 minutes) drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Peggy Ashcroft, Gordon Harker, Robert Newton and Kenneth Griffith. It combines documentary footage with acting.
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[9] It was included in the British Film Institute (BFI) DVD compilation Land of Promise: The British Documentary Movement 1930-1950 (2008). [10] Britain at Bay also was released in Panamint's series of propaganda shorts, Britain At War (2005) by the GPO/Crown Film Unit, the second volume was subtitled Under Fire. Film reviewer Anthony Nield ...
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For Freedom is a 1940 British drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and Castleton Knight. It was made largely for propaganda purposes during the Second World War. [1] It features Will Fyffe, Guy Middleton, and Terry-Thomas. [2] [3] Through its blending of fiction and documentary it was similar to The Lion Has Wings produced by Alexander Korda's ...
The film is an ensemble piece that covers the period between 27 August 1939 and 9 September 1940, when World War II began and London was subjected to aerial bombing, and is a tribute to the solidarity of not just those engaged in service, but among the British people as a whole. [1]