Words for Battle

Duration: 0:08:00

Year Published: 1941

Creator: The Ministry of Information : Publisher | The Ministry of Information

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Laurence Olivier's reading of passages from Milton, William Blake, Robert Browning, Rudyard Kipling and Abraham Lincoln accompany scenes of daily life in wartime Britain. The texts selected emphasize national identity and heritage, patriotism, and the justness of the Allied cause. ; "As accompaniment for a dramatic picture of Britain at war, Laurence Olivier recites famous verse and prose passages chosen to illustrate the things the British people are fighting for."--War Films, Bulletin of the Extension Division, Indiana University, February, 1943.

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