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Christmas Under Fire

Christmas Under Fire

6,6 /10 (8 Votes)
1940 EN 10 min

Overview

How Britain coped with a Christmas during the war.

Release date

25/12/1940

Votes

8

Popularity

0.0

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

10 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2025-07-24

⭐ 7

Ok, so the narrator keeps calling Britain England, and that is annoying, but if you just turn down his ramblings then you may appreciate a slightly sentimental but still quite poignant look at how the U.K. approached Christmas. The year hasn’t been an unadulterated success on the wartime front, and there are ruined buildings a-plenty. Attitudes are not, however, ruined, and with a clear stoicism we see an opportunistic window cleaner who puts a sign over his devastated shop front declaring “Window cleaner open for business. If you haven’t any windows left, we’ll clean your chimneys instead” Th…

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