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Words for Battle (aka 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.
Original Release
01/24/1941
Cast
Name | Character |
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Laurence Olivier | Narrator / Narrator (voice) |
Winston Churchill | Self |
Joseph Goebbels | Self |
Adolf Hitler | Self |
Directors
Writers
William Blake, Winston Churchill, Rudyard Kipling, Abraham Lincoln, John Milton
Cast
Name | Character |
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Laurence Olivier | Narrator / Narrator (voice) |
Winston Churchill | Self |
Joseph Goebbels | Self |
Adolf Hitler | Self |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Ian Dalrymple | Producer |