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Words for Battle

6.2 8 mins Documentary   1941
Crown Film Unit  
Director(s): Humphrey Jennings

Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence Olivier, illuminate documentary footage of England during its defense against the Nazi blitz in World War II. This short film serves as both propaganda and as a rallying cry to the British people.

Casts of Words for Battle

Laurence Olivier

as Narrator (voice)

Winston Churchill

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joseph Goebbels

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Adolf Hitler

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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