It is the Second World War. The Nazis have invaded Britain. There is a split between the resistance and those who would prefer to collaborate with the occupying German army. It Happened Here was the first of several films that Kevin Bronwlow would direct that dealt with various aspects of the history, (both real and imagined) of the British Isles. Brownlow began this project when he was eighteen, andwith the help of Stanley Kubrick and Tony Richardson, completed the film eight years later. Shot on weekends with nonactors and borrowed equipment, the film was madein collaboration with Andrew Mollo, Bronlow’s Nazi regalia-collecting school friend (who eventually went on to design Imperial costumes for Star Wars.) Kevin Brownlow's 1968 book about the making of the film, How It Happened Here, has recently been republished.