Songs That Won the War (possible VHS-only re-issue with updated RBL logo)

VHS feature presented by Dame Vera Lynn in support of The Royal British Legion. This 65 minute feature covers a wide selection of British wartime hits.

The songs are presented in their printed order (with one exception), but not always in full and are interspersed with clips that feature no "music" but are instead clips of various films related to the content at hand. For the music tracks, the video content can sometimes be archival clips of live performances (possibly post-war), but some are archival clips of era-appropriate scenes (like ballroom dancing) with the music dubbed in over the top. See individual recording pages for further detail.

"Kiss Me Goodnight Sergeant Major" is listed but doesn't appear, it insteads skips to an instrumental version of "Knees Up Mother Brown".

The film entries that split up this release appear between these tracks, they've been omitted as the content in these areas does not fit with the general goals of MusicBrainz and simply muddy the database with unhelpful data.

Between track 1 and 2, a current day (so likely 1993/1994) spoken word introduction is performed by Dame Vera Lynn at the Coronet Cinema, Notting Hill Gate introducing the feature. (all future interruptions made by Dame Vera Lynn are filmed at this location)
Between track 8 and 9 is an edited version of the 1939 Pathé film "National Service" featuring Sir John Anderson.
Between track 11 and 12 is an edited film of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother addressing the nation to encourage and compliment those who have evacuated their children in light of the on-going war conflict.
Between 12 and 13 we then cut back to Dame Vera Lynn who does a piece to camera about the situation with France's surrender.
Between 15 and 16 we again cut back to Dame Vera Lynn who does a piece to camera continuing to explain the war situation and introduces the upcoming music track.
Between 18 and 19 we again cut back to Dame Vera Lynn who does a piece to camera explaining about the efforts of the home front during the war period.
Between 20 and 21 is an archive clip of women working in a factory for various homefront efforts, with them singing an unidentified song - however the audio is extremely poor.
Between 21 and 22 we once again cut back to Dame Vera Lynn who does a piece to camera about allied efforts.
Between 25 and 26 back to Dame Vera Lynn providing an anecdote about performing for "the troops".
Between 30 and 31 back to Dame Vera Lynn doing another piece to camera contiuning the story of the war.
Between 33 and 34 back to Dame Vera Lynn with another piece to camera continuing the story of the war.
Between 36 and 37 back to Dame Vera Lynn with the final piece to camera regarding VE day. This is then followed by a piece of archive footage of Sir Winston Churchill addressing the nation.

Public is used to denote the tracks that appear within the film that are not sung by any individual of note, but are what you may refer to as almost "field recordings" of various members of the public, singing groups or choirs singing the song.

Although I have digitised the video content in the hopes of retrieving durations, they are difficult to calculate due to the way the entire feature is edited.