Movie

Spring Offensive (1940)

• June 1, 1940
• 19m

• Documentary

Overview

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

Writers

Hugh Gray, A.G. Street