(Spring Offensive)

Content: 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.

Countries:

United Kingdom

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

19 minutes

Year:

1940

Directors:

Humphrey Jennings

Production companies:

GPO Film Unit,

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,

BFI Video

Crews:

Director

Writer

Writer