"Mrs. Miniver" (1942)

A sweet war movie--even though that's a paradox. Not in the realm of the realism that will be staged in later decades, but represents war maybe as it might appear on the Dick Van Dyke show? No comedy, but the same sweetness. Early on, one repeated musical theme is the hymn tune I know as "God Our Help In Ages Past". I suspect it is the same, though maybe with some verse differences. Besides hymn singing at church, one minor character is a church bell ringer, and the story line works in hearing planes overhead both for somberness (going to fight, fighting itself) and in communication to the mother (leading lady). What would be interesting to examine this film would be for identifying which characters were dynamic and which were static. End credits included a statement asking Americans to by war bonds etc.