Despite the Blitz, it's 'business as usual' as England prepares for Christmas in this propaganda film intended for US audiences. It's a Christmas of holly and barbed wire, guns and tinsel, yet the ...
Despite the Blitz, it's 'business as usual' as England prepares for Christmas in this propaganda film intended for US audiences. It's a Christmas of holly and barbed wire, guns and tinsel, yet the British, we are told, are determined to make it as cheerful as possible.
"England is fighting for her life", asserts the American narrator, but it is admiration rather than pity that the film seeks to evoke. The filmmakers achieve this with emotions bigger than most 10-minute films could contain, as we watch plucky Londoners creating a subterranean Christmas on Underground platforms and the choristers of King's College sing their hearts out. While no doubt intended to encourage US support in the War, 'Christmas Under Fire' ultimately offers a portrait of a nation "unbeaten, unconquered and unafraid". (Poppy Simpson)
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...and if that's how you feel, fahd, in my opinion you'd be very, very welcome here indeed. Being British to me should be about how you think, not about how you look or where you were born.
Yes, a charming - and humbling - film. Delighted to find it here. Thank you.
Right you english twats, your British! I'm from ulster and I'm British, if your from Wales or Scotland your still British! Just look at your own passport, if you can read!
You should be proud to be British. I know we do have are faults in history, as do any country of age but we have done alot of good
The English ARE British too, but have their own heritage independent of Welsh, Scots, Irish. Noone would deny them their nationality, would they? Oh yes, the fucking EU would.
@TheJunglesound. My English parents from London fought for my freedom, not to give the Jews a land and for them to drive others off it. Why do Jews always think the war was about them and their suffering. Dumb post on your part IMO.
@e172essex First of all this comment is entirely irrelevant to the point I was making, which was that someone was complaining because no one mentioned that Belfast suffered under the blitz. I just found this ridiculous because it was a film about London but if one was gonna mention other people suffering it would most certainly be the Jews as they were having an infinitely worse time than the Irish were. Second of all I couldn't give a flying fuck about your parents fighting for your freedom.
@e172essex it will be fair to say that that new what they were fighting for! ,you claim things that you like to believe ,if you will study the bible you will find lot of things about there history , they have been destroyed and brought back into there land not because you or me like that,but because the wheel of history has its own preset direction and whoever stays in its way will no prevail
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Yes, a charming - and humbling - film. Delighted to find it here. Thank you.
thanks
You should be proud to be British. I know we do have are faults in history, as do any country of age but we have done alot of good
My English parents from London fought for my freedom, not to give the Jews a land and for them to drive others off it. Why do Jews always think the war was about them and their suffering.
Dumb post on your part IMO.
First of all this comment is entirely irrelevant to the point I was making, which was that someone was complaining because no one mentioned that Belfast suffered under the blitz. I just found this ridiculous because it was a film about London but if one was gonna mention other people suffering it would most certainly be the Jews as they were having an infinitely worse time than the Irish were. Second of all I couldn't give a flying fuck about your parents fighting for your freedom.