The first film of Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo (whose Winstanley we showed in September), made in 1964 financed out of the young filmmakers' pocket money, It Happened Here is a simulated documentary supposing a Nazi invasion of Britain after Dunkirk. Not a tale of heroic resistance, it is rather a horrifyingly realistic portrait of an average Englishwoman who becomes a reluctant collaborator. A weary country widow who has seen her fellow villagers murdered by Nazis, and then been relocated from an area of potential resistance to London, where she is without work, she becomes an acquiescent tool of Nazi propaganda and control as a nurse in a paramilitary organization. A simulated propaganda newsreel showing how the Nazis might have brainwashed the British, invoking an illusionary traditional Anglo-German accord, is particularly awesome. Brownlow has stated that It Happened Here was influenced greatly by the work of Humphrey Jennings, British documentarist/poet whose wartime documentaries captured the emotional mood of the nation.