Britain At War - Christmas Under Fire

This release presents a collection of archive short films from the GPO Film Unit in the early days of WWII.

The First Days (1939)
This unique record of the first days of the war shows many actual and some econstructed scenes of air raid precautions, military training and the evacuations.

The Front Line (1940)
For three months Dover had been the frontier target for the Reich, There was only one hotel in existence - the American correspondents were stationed there to see the fall of Britain ...

Squadron 992 (1940)
Harry Watt made this compelling drama/documentary about the training of a barrage balloon squadron and its first assignment to South Queensferry after an unsuccessful raid on Rosyth Naval Base near the Forth Bridge.

The Story Of An Air Communique (1940)
Made for the Ministry of Information to show how accurately the figures for destroyed enemy aircraft were compiled and checked.

Britain Can Take It (1940)
The American journalist Quentin Reynolds, who presents this film despatch from London, took it straight to the White House where it gave Roosevelt the kind of material he needed to swing US popular opinion behind Britain in the war.

Britain At Bay (1940)
Nazi Germany has swallowed Czechoslovakia, invaded Poland and Norway, overrun Holland and Belgium. The French government had given in, Britain was alone, at bay ...

Christmas Under Fire (1941)
Carols sung by the choir of King's College Chapel, Cambridge Quentin Reynolds' second film despatch from London to America shows Christmas 1940, the year of the blitz.

Men Of The Lightship (1940)
A reconstruction of events surrounding the Nazi bombing of the East Dudgeon lightship and the fate of those manning it.


  None specified

  Quentin Reynolds, J B Priestley

  Various

  112 mins

  1939 - 1941

 E - Exempt

  None specified

  English

  2

  2 - will only play on UK / European DVD player or multi region player

  Usually despatched within 5 working days
 

£19.97