The Land Girls is a 1998 movie directed by David Leland, starring Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz and Anna Friel as three women from different backgrounds sent to work on a farm in Dorset during World War II as part of the Women’s Land Army initiative. Fans of the film include Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Stephen Sommers, who cast Weisz in The Mummy after seeing it.
The Women’s Land Army was first founded in 1917, to replace farm workers who had been sent to fight in World War I. It was disbanded in 1919, but revived in 1939 with the outbreak of World War II, being disbanded again in 1950. In October 2012, King Charles, then Prince of Wales. unveiled a memorial sculpture to the WLA in Moray, Scotland.