It Happened Here

It Happened Here
1966 UK cinema poster
Directed by	Kevin Brownlow Andrew Mollo
Produced by	Kevin Brownlow Andrew Mollo
Written by	Kevin Brownlow Andrew Mollo
Starring	Pauline Murray Sebastian Shaw Bart Allison Reginald Marsh
Music by	Anton Bruckner
Cinematography	Kevin Brownlow Peter Suschitzky
Edited by	Kevin Brownlow
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	Film festivals Cork and Mannheim: 1964 United Kingdom: May 1966 United States: 8 August 1966 Australia: 25 May 1966
Running time	97 min.
Country	UK
Language	English/German
Budget	$20,000 (estimated)

It Happened Here (also known as It Happened Here: The Story of Hitler's England) is a black-and white 1964 British World War II film written, produced and directed by Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo, who began work on the film as teenagers. The film's largely amateur production took some eight years, using volunteer actors with some support from professional filmmakers.

It Happened Here shows an alternative history where the United Kingdom has been invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany. The plot follows the experiences of an Irish nurse working in England, who encounters people who believe collaboration with the invaders is for the best whilst others are involved in the resistance movement against the occupiers and their local collaborators.

The film opens with the statement: "The German invasion of Britain took place in 1940 after the retreat from Dunkirk." After months of fierce resistance and brutal reprisals, the occupying forces manage to restore order, largely suppressing the resistance movement. However, due to demands from the Ural Mountains front, most German troops are eventually removed from Western Europe, and the garrisoning of Britain is largely carried out by local volunteers to the German army and the SS.

England appears to be governed by the British Union of Fascists (the situation in the rest of the British Isles is unclear but presumably similar); the followers are referred to as "Blackshirts", wear uniforms with the Flash and Circle, and a framed portrait of Oswald Mosley appears in a government building, alongside one of Adolf Hitler. Meanwhile, the United States, having entered the war, stations its U.S. Seventh Fleet off Ireland. The Americans begin bombing raids on the southwest coast of England, as well as supplying men and equipment to a resurgent partisan movement.