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Fires Were Started

Cast

George Gravett, Phillip Wilson-Dickson, Fred Griffiths, Loris Rey View All

Crew

Humphrey Jennings (Director), Humphrey Jennings (Writer) View All

Release: Apr. 12th, 1943

Runtime: 1 hour, 10 minutes

British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style showing the lives of firefighters through the Blitz in World War II.

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Torgo
The movie takes it time before getting to this sequence, which I think is a good decision not only for how it raises our anticipation, but also for the ways it lets us get familiar with how the fire department works and how the firefighters spend their downtime.

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mark f
Fires Were Started is a stirring and almost beautiful celebration of firefighters in England during WWII who had to fight fires caused by German bombing on a daily basis at the height of the war.