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We Serve (1942)

We Serve poster
Directed by
Carol Reed
Genre
war
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
30 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This black and white short film from 1942 shows the daily activities of women serving as officers in the British Army's Auxiliary Territorial Service. It follows their training and work as a recruitment tool for the war effort.

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What happens

We Serve is a 1942 British short black and white recruitment and training film directed by Carol Reed and starring Peggy Ashcroft and Joyce Carey, about the lives of officers in the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS). It was produced by Sydney Box and made by Box's company Verity Films for the Directorate of Army Kinematography. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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