London Can Take It!

London Can Take It!
Directed byHumphrey Jennings
Harry Watt
Edited byStewart McAllister (uncredited)
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • November 1940 (1940-11)
Running time
9 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

London Can Take It! is a short British propaganda film from 1940, which shows the effects of eighteen hours of the German blitz on London and its people. Intended to sway the US population in favour of Britain's plight, it was produced by the GPO Film Unit for the British Ministry of Information and distributed throughout the United States by Warner Bros.[1] The film was directed by Humphrey Jennings and Harry Watt, and narrated by US journalist and war correspondent Quentin Reynolds.

  1. ^ Kevin Jackson Humphrey Jennings, 2004, London: Picador, p429.