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Words for Battle

Humphrey Jennings

1941 • 8m

Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence Olivier, illuminate documentary footage of England ...

Words for Battle

Cast

Laurence Olivier

Laurence OlivierNarrator (voice)

Winston Churchill

Winston ChurchillSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joseph Goebbels

Joseph GoebbelsSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)

Adolf Hitler

Adolf HitlerSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)

Crew

Humphrey Jennings

Humphrey JenningsDirector

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard KiplingPoem

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