208112
208112

Spring Offensive

1940-06-01
6.5
en 19m
Documentary
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.

Director

Humphrey Jennings

Writer

Hugh Gray

Writer

A.G. Street

Status

Released

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Companies

  • GPO Film Unit
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • BFI Video