Oct 05, 2015
21 min
Full-HD

The Street Performers (2015)

This documentary-style short follows two impoverished teens performing on the streets of London in the days leading up to the London Blitz of 1940.

Lincoln Alex MacVeagh

Bartholomew

Eloise Silver Van Meter

Edith Abney

Winston Churchill

Self (archive footage)

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