Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
Acting
Garson's Oscar-winning composure while falling apart
Direction
Wyler's bombing sequence still visceral 80 years later
Writing
That sermon in the ruins—pure cinematic manipulation
Director
William Wyler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Winston Churchill claimed this film did more for the Allied cause than a flotilla of battleships.
The vicar's sermon was so powerful it was printed in TIME magazine and broadcast on Armed Forces Radio.
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