Fighting Dutch

194315 minFilm: Documentary

Production: Raymond SpottiswoodeStuart Legg

Co-produced by the NFB and the Netherlands Information Bureau.

An ordinary Dutch citizen, Pieter van Dongen, a member of the underground in Holland, has communicated by secret radio with British authorities, who have sent an Royal Air Force squadron to bomb an important railroad centre nearby. As he waits to flash his signal to the bombers, he thinks of the Netherlands and its Empire as it was before World War II. The defense of Dutch resources is shown.

Other versions

La Hollande au combat

Subject categories

  • War, Conflict and Peace - World War II Archival Films > Allied Military OperationsCivil DefenceEuropean Front
  • Foreign Countries > Belgium and the NetherlandsWorld War IIWorld War II Military Operations

Credits

producer
Raymond Spottiswoode
executive producer
Stuart Legg
camera
John Ferno
George Jacobson
narrator
Lorne Greene