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MRS. MINIVER
SUBJECTS --- World/England; World/WW II;
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING --- Families in Crisis;
MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS --- Trustworthiness.
Age: 10+; Not Rated; Drama; 1942; 145 minutes; B & W.
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It's WW II. The Minivers, an otherwise happy and well adjusted English middle class family,
must learn to live under daily bombardment by German planes.
Mr. Miniver joins hundreds of boat owners summoned to Dunkirk to help evacuate
British soldiers from the mainland. While he is gone a German flyer,
shot down by British anti-aircraft guns, seeks shelter in
the Miniver home.
"Mrs. Miniver" is one of the best
Allied propaganda films of World War II. It shows how the British
public reacted to German aerial bombardment
during the Battle of Britain (August - October, 1940). President
Roosevelt was so impressed with the final speech in this film that he
ordered it printed onto leaflets and dropped over occupied Europe.
The TeachWithMovies.com Learning Guide contains background and discussion questions to help teachers and parents use this film to supplement studies of the Second World War.
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"Mrs. Miniver" shows a strong woman faced with a nightmare situation. It puts a face on World War II on the British home front and shows the tremendous effort needed to save the British army at Dunkirk.
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To give you a sense of how our Learning Guides can be used by teachers as lesson plans and by parents to supplement school curriculum or for homeschooling, we have set out below a paragraph from the Learning Guide to "Mrs. Miniver".
Dunkirk is a seaport in Northern France. In late May of
1940 the British Army was trapped between the advancing
German Army and the sea. The British Navy mobilized every
available boat, public or private on the English coast near
the Channel, and evacuated 337,000 troops between May 27 and
June 4, 1940. Dunkirk is seen as a brilliant military
retreat. In the movie, Mr. Miniver participates in the
Dunkirk evacuation.
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