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'''''Millions Like Us''''' is a 1943 British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail. It starred [[Patricia Roc]], [[Eric Portman]], [[Megs Jenkins]], [[Gordon Jackson (actor)|Gordon Jackson]] and [[Anne Crawford]], was written and directed by [[Sidney Gilliat]] and [[Frank Launder]].<ref name="MadeinLondon"/> It

==Production background==
The film was filmedproduced at [[Gainsborough Studios]]. [[Roger Burford]] had suggested to themthe producers that they create a film covering the entire British war effort on the homefront;. theThe directors decided the task was too big and that the subject needed a fictional story to tie the material together.<ref name="Brown">Brown G. Launder and Gilliat, quoted in Programme book for Made in London Early Evening Films at the Museum of London (Museum of London and The National Film Archive), 24th season, 1992.</ref> The directors originally wanted to call the film 'The Mobile Woman'. The dance hall scene involved real serving soldiers, airmen and firemen..<ref name="Brown"/>

''[[Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)|Beethoven's 5thFifth symphonySymphony]]'' is used liberally in the sound-track. Per the [[British Film Institute]] database, this film is the first in an "unofficial trilogy" of ''Millions Like Us'', ''[[Two Thousand Women]]'' (1944), and ''[[Waterloo Road (film)|Waterloo Road]]'' (1945).