They Also Serve

Ruby Grierson | 1940 | 11 mins

Dedicated to ‘the Housewives of Britain’, this film follows a day in the wartime life of ‘Mother’, an everywoman whose dutiful service is very much of the domestic kind. Tragically, this was the final film made by director Ruby Grierson. She died in 1940 when the liner on which she was shooting a documentary was torpedoed.