This is another of those priceless but grossly neglected gems from the war years, made for constructive reasons to raise the fighting spirit and morals and encourage the will to hold on, but they are all much more than just propaganda films. This one tells the story of a village and returns to its early struggles almost nine centuries earlier and then follows history through some eventful and fatal years, which makes it a panoramic cavalcade through history, and as such it is very interesting and invaluable. The first episode deals with the old Anglo-Saxon problems with the Normans and relates the events of a successful insurrection (1086), the second happens in 1588 and is not all about he Spanish Armada but some local problems in connection with it, the third is in 1804 in the middle of the Napoleonic wars, and then there is the First World War, all four years of it, with casualties and armistice and all. Of course, the film starts in 1941 with the Germans bombing the village and also ends up there with a very appropriate summary of the destiny of all these ordeals in a quotation by John of Gaunt in "Richard II", so it all leads to poetry, demonstrating the eternal resistance against any disturbance by any invasion or war of the peace at the village and its farm lands. It's a lovable film with a message concerning all kinds of people of any social standing or lack of standing.