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Spring Offensive (1940)

Spring Offensive (1940)

Documentary
Release Date: 1940, June 1
Directors: Humphrey Jennings
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: GPO Film Unit, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, BFI Video

Overview:

Humphrey Jennings’s wartime short rallies Britain’s countryside, showing fields ploughed up from fallow, seed sown, and crops raised on once-idle land as part of the national push to feed the home front—an urgent, lyrical call to turn soil into sustenance.