Victory and Peace

{{Short description|1918 British war film}}

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{{Use British English|date=June 2016}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Victory and Peace

| image =

| caption =

| director = Herbert Brenon

| producer = William F. Jury

| writer = Hall Caine

| starring = Matheson Lang
Marie Lohr
James Carew
Ellen Terry

| music =

| cinematography = J. Roy Hunt

| editing = James C. Mckay

| studio = National War Aims Committee

| distributor = National War Aims Committee

| released = {{Film date|1918|12|31|df=yes}}

| runtime = 9000 feet c. 80 minutes

| country = United Kingdom

| language = Silent
English intertitles

| budget =

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Victory and Peace is a 1918 British silent war film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Matheson Lang, Marie Lohr, and James Carew. The film was produced by the National War Aims Committee that was set up in 1917 to focus on domestic propaganda during the First World War. The novelist Hall Caine was recruited for the committee by the Prime Minister David Lloyd George to write the screenplay. Lloyd George chose Caine due to his experience in the field of cinema and his "reputation as a man of letters".{{cite news|title=Letter from Lloyd George to Hall Caine, dated 23 October 1917, reprinted in the Daily Telegraph|work=Daily Telegraph|date=10 November 1917}} The film was designed to show what would happen in a German invasion.{{cite news|title=Hall Caine's Task|work=Shields Daily News|date=10 November 1917|pages=4}} It was mostly shot in Chester with some scenes filmed at Chirk Castle. Most of the negative of the newly finished film was destroyed in a fire at the offices of the London Film Company in June 1918.{{cite news|title=Sir Hall Caine's propaganda film destroyed|work=Aberdeen Press and Journal|date=19 June 1918|pages=4}} It was re-filmed over four months, just as the war ended, and so never went on general release.{{Harvnb|Slide |2015|Chapter=11.}} It is a partially lost film, with only around 1,000 feet of film still surviving.Allen p.366-367 Edward Elgar was to have composed the score. Originally entitled The National Film, its alternative title is The Invasion of Britain.