Millions Like Us (1943)

Directed by

Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat

Genre

drama film, propaganda film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 43m

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film follows a group of British women from different backgrounds who are conscripted to work in an aircraft factory during World War Two. It shows their daily lives, training, and the friendships that form among them as they support the war effort.

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What happens

Millions Like Us is a 1943 British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail. It stars Patricia Roc, Gordon Jackson, Anne Crawford, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Moore Marriott and Eric Portman. It was co-written and co-directed by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder. According to the British Film Institute database, this film is the first in an "unofficial trilogy", along with Two Thousand Women (1944) and Waterloo Road (1945). Radford and Wayne reprise their roles of Charters and Caldicott from The Lady Vanishes (1938) and Night Train to Munich (1941), both scripted by Launder and Gilliat and produced by Edward Black. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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