Britain Prepared (1915)

Directed by

Charles Urban

Genre

documentary film, silent film, propaganda film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

2h 45m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This silent documentary shows the British army, navy, and munitions factories before and during World War I. It was made by a propaganda bureau to display the country's military readiness.

patrioticstirringmatter-of-factinstructionaldatedstatelyobservationalhistorical

What happens

Britain Prepared is a 1915 British documentary feature film directed by Charles Urban. The film is silent and made in black-and-white with some colour sequences in the Kinemacolor additive color process. The film documents Britain's military preparedness, showing scenes of the army and navy in preparation for war, and the manufacture of munitions. The film was made by the Cinema Committee, comprising Charles Urban, William Jury of Jury's Imperial Pictures, and Tommy Welsh of Gaumont, at the behest of the covert British propaganda organisation, the War Propaganda Bureau (also known as Wellington House). It was the first major British official film of World War I. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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