Christmas Under Fire is a 1941 Christmas short film. It got nominated for Best Documentary Short, but lost to Churchill's Island. Quentin Reynolds speaks as a commentarier.
Premise[]
The film shows Christmas 1940, in the middle of the Blitz. Christmas traditions are depicted in juxtaposition with a wartime backdrop: Christmas trees are dug up for air raid shelters; housewives buy food for the Christmas dinner; theatres stage pantomime productions; schoolchildren produce handmade Christmas cards. People are shown celebrating Christmas while sheltering in the London Underground, accompanied by a carol sung by the choir of King's College, Cambridge.