Words for Battle

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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...read more

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

(see additional cast & crew)

Directors

Humphrey Jennings

Writers

William Blake, Winston Churchill, Rudyard Kipling, Abraham Lincoln, John Milton

Cast

Producers

Editors

Stewart McAllister

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