Rent The Home Guard and Britain's Citizen Army (1942)
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4h 51min
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The Imperial War Museum Collection features rare and fascinating original films preserved in the Museum's archive. Many have never been released to the public before and are presented here, complete and uncut, for the very first time. These films are of great historical importance and are essential viewing for anyone interested in British military history. This two disc collection features over 30 different wartime films showing how Britons contributed to the defence of the nation, from joining the Home Guard through to contributing scrap items and 'Digging for Victory'. Much of the collection is devoted to rare films covering the formation and training of the Home Guard - or 'Dad's Army' as it was sometimes jokingly referred to. They include 'Citizen's Army', The Dawn Guard', 'Home Guard', 'Unarmed Combat', 'News From England', 'Platoon Assault on a House', 'Weapons and Equipment' and 'One Man, Two Jobs' and span the length of the war. Other services covered include barrage balloon squadrons in 'Squadron 992' and ARP Wardens in 'Post 23' and 'Night Watch', while Wartime stars like Tommy Trinder, Kathleen Harrison and Ronald Shiner are on hand to dish out invaluable advice on everything from scrap and salvage to eating right. There's also plenty of wartime public information films covering everything from the subject of cheese and growing your own vegetables to tackling incendiary bombs and mending and making do. Other films included here, such as 'Dangerous Comment' and 'You're Telling Me' convey the invaluable wartime message that 'careless talk costs lives'. Some films in the collection have more to do with boosting morale than practical advice to dispense. In 'Miss Grant Goes to the Door' two elderly sisters help outwit a German spy, while 'Men of the Lightship' recreates the brutal German attack on the East Dudgeon Lightship and The Frontline' celebrates life as usual in Dover as invasion looms... - Actors:
- Bernard Miles, Frank Lawton, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Milton Rosmer, Margaret Vyner, Roland Culver, Robert Rendel, Alec Clunes, Ian Fleming, Edward Lexy, Roddy Hughes, Patrick Holt, John Wengraf, Kathleen Harrison, Aubrey Mallalieu, Phyllis Morris, Ronald Shiner, Ivan Brandt, Mary Clare, Martita Hunt
- Directors:
- Donald Taylor, John Paddy Carstairs, Adrian Brunel, Brian Desmond-Hurst, David MacDonald, Harry Watt, Ruby Grierson, Roy Boulting, Ralph Bond, Herbert Mason
- Producers:
- Donald Taylor, Michael Balcon, Alberto Cavalcanti, Brian Desmond-Hurst, John Taylor, John Boulting, Edward Black
- Voiced By:
- Robert Newton, Lionel Gamlin
- Narrated By:
- Jack Livesey, Robert Newton, Alec Clunes, Lionel Gamlin
- Writers:
- John Paddy Carstairs, Roger MacDougall, Roland Pertwee, Adrian Brunel, Rodney Ackland, Donald Bull, Thorold Dickinson, David Evans, Hugh Gray, Alan Hodge, W.D.H. McCulloch, Anna Reiner, Sidney Gilliat
- Aka:
- Britain's Home Front At War - Britain's Citizen Army
- Studio:
- DD Home Entertainment
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Drama, British TV, TV Documentaries, TV Dramas, TV Military & War Dramas
- Collections:
- British WWII Films: The Home Front and Europe, Top 10 British War Films (1939-45)
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