Words for Battle (1941)
- Directed by
- Humphrey Jennings
- Genre
- documentary film, propaganda film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 8 min
- Rated
- 14
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 10 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A propaganda film from 1941 that shows British landscapes and wartime scenes. Laurence Olivier reads passages from English literature and historic speeches over the images.
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What happens
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. 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 literary works and speeches. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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