People are shown celebrating Christmas while sheltering in the London Underground, accompanied by a carol sung by the choir of King's College, Cambridge.
[1] Christmas Under Fire was produced by the Crown Film Unit of the Ministry of Information, commissioned as a sequel to London Can Take It.
[4] The film was produced in the context of The Blitz, the series of German bombing raids on British cities that began in September 1940.
In order to encourage the support of the American population, the film was designed to shake the complacency of neutral America,[2] while depicting the resilience, determination and defiance of British civilians.
[5] Christmas Under Fire was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short, losing to the Stuart Legg film Churchill's Island, another work about the wartime defence of Britain.