[1] The film, directed and edited by Guy Glover, described the work of the UNRRA during the Second World War and Canada's role in the relief agency.

[Note 1] By 1944, desperate families in war-ravaged Europe, were fleeing their homes and ruined cities, and with their expanded mandate to assist all in distress, only UNRRA could provide relief.

In its first years of operation, UNRRA distributed food, fuel, clothing, shelter, medicine, tools, seeds, fertilizer, farm implements and other basic necessities at a time of severe global shortages and worldwide transportation difficulties.

Like the earlier commitments made at the United Nations' conferences on food and agriculture, UNRRA endeavoured to take on the task of relief work throughout Europe to build a stable postwar future, making the world safe and free from fear and want.

presents In the Wake of the Armies .... Greene, known for his work on both radio broadcasts as a news announcer at CBC as well as narrating many of the Canada Carries On series.

Each film was shown over a six-month period as part of the shorts or newsreel segments in approximately 800 theatres across Canada.