Summary: Short patriotric film about how the people of Britain successfully defended themselves during the Second World War.
Description: Film opens with various views of the British countryside and coastline including Tintagel Castle in Cornwall. Farm workers are seen gathering the harvest in, and the farmer returns home to his family. However the idyllic scenes of country life are shattered by the outbreak of war, and the farmer exchanges his scythe for a rifle. He bids his wife and daughter farewell, and departs to fight for King and country. As the farmer departs the camera focuses upon his wife, now seemingly dressed as Britannia. The silhouette of the Grim Reaper can be seen advancing towards the farmer's family, illustrating the risk of loss of life to civilians during wartime as well as those serving in the military. But all is not yet lost, and Britain and her Commonwealth allies rise to the challenge posed by the German Luftwaffe during the summer of 1940, marked here by the image of an extract from Winston Churchill's famous "never in the field of human conflict" speech apparently spelt out in the sky by aircraft vapour trails.Tribute is paid not just to the men and women who fought for freedom, but to the ordinary people too, the civillians left behind, who made their own contributions to the war effort, and special mention is made of the assistance of the United States. Scenes of tanks ploughing through fields, smiling WAAF's marching in unison, and military ships at sea among others, are interposed over a flickering image of a Nazi flag, signifying the crushing of the Nazi regime. Thanks is given to God for guiding the people of Britain through the war, and the film ends with images of St Paul's, Durham and York Minister cathedrals.