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Archive Film Spotlight: The Little Ships of England
archive film/photo
ww2 service
dunkirk
operation dynamo
British Council archive film offers a strong insight into the wartime effort behind Britain's little ships.
Published 21 June 2011
The British Council describes its film collection as an archive of more than 120 short documentaries from the 1940s, preserved by the BFI National Film Archive and digitised with support from Google.
The film description notes timber supply from British woods, shipwright work in a West-country yard, air-sea rescue operations, and the little ships at Dunkirk.
Watch film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPUQnJ1Eoic
More from the archive:
http://film.britishcouncil.org/british-council-film-collection