Podcasts by Millions Like Us: How Cinema Won the War for Britain
1940, and Britain stands alone. Now more than ever, the country had to be united.
How did film kick down class boundaries? How did it shine a light on gender equality? How did it make us laugh, when we needed laughter more than ever before?
75 years on, discover for the first time how film inspired unity, humour, and defiance when we needed it most, and how, at a time of unparalleled national crisis, this, was their finest hour.
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3: The 'Stiff Upper Lip' from 2020-05-22T08:00
The British stiff upper lip. Be it fact or fiction, it became a defining characteristic for Brits during the war.
In this final episode, hear how cinema dealt with the brutal realities of...
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2: WHY we fight from 2020-05-15T08:00
With no end to the war in sight, how did cinema convince the public that it was a war worth fighting?
Cinema turned its focus towards Nazism, dismissing any desire for compromise. I...
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1: HOW we fight from 2020-05-08T08:00
In this first episode, hear how Britain fought.
How did members of the public, men and women of all classes and backgrounds, become the stars of a new golden age of British cinem...
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Millions Like Us: Trailer from 2020-05-06T15:00
It’s 1940. Forced to retreat from Dunkirk as Europe fell to the Nazi advance, Britain stands alone.
With no old-fashioned heroes to look to, British cinema turned to a new type of leading...
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