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Channel Incident (1940)

Channel Incident poster
Directed by
Anthony Asquith
Genre
drama film, propaganda film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
9 min
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a short propaganda film from 1940 about the evacuation of British troops from the beaches of Dunkirk. It follows civilians answering a call to rescue soldiers by boat, showing the courage and urgency of the mission.

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What happens

Channel Incident is a 1940 British short black and white drama-documentary propaganda film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Peggy Ashcroft, Gordon Harker, Robert Newton and Kenneth Griffith. It was written by Dallas Bower from a story credited to "Bartimeus", and produced by Asquith for the Ministry of Information. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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