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Spring Offensive (1940)
Directed by Humphrey Jennings
Documentary · 19m
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.
Crew
- Director
- Humphrey Jennings
- Writer
- Hugh Gray, A.G. Street
Details
- Release date
- 1940-06-01
- Runtime
- 19m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- GPO Film Unit, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, BFI Video