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Words for Battle is a British film of genre Documentary directed by Humphrey Jennings with Laurence Olivier

Words for Battle (1941)

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Length 8minutes
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Rating65% 3.283493.283493.283493.283493.28349

Words for Battle 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 originally had the title In England Now. It features seven sequences, each containing images of rural and urban Britain at war overlaid with audio of Laurence Olivier reciting passages from different English literary works and speeches.

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Laurence Olivier

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