Imagine you are in the village of Cwmgiedd. It's a tiny mining community in southern Wales. The man work in the mines and come home or head to the pubs, singing "Men of Harlech"; the women are at home cleaning; the children are at school, learning about the solar system and Wales. It's an ordinary place. Now imagine the same things happened here that had happened in a similar village in Czechoslovakia. Watch the people of the Welsh village reenact what had happened in Lidice, where the Nazis had come in, and the men went on strike, and destroyed their mines, and eventually killed Heydrich, and were destroyed, root and branch, in retaliation.
It's produced and directed by Humphrey Jennings, the great propaganda documentarist of the General Post Office. The cinematographer is H.E. Fowle. Together they had done LONDON CAN TAKE IT!, and they use the same techniques here. It's all beautiful portraiture and landscape, and people stoically going at their work in stoic pride. A beautiful piece of propaganda, asking how you would feel if it happened to you.