Humphrey Jennings

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

Documentary about Humphrey Jennings, an English documentary filmmaker from the 1930s to 1950.

How news of a general reduction in GPO charges was finally brought to parliament and the people, despite attempts by the country's enemies to prevent...

The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have...

British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style showing the lives of firefighters through the Blitz in World War...

A depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the...

Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence...

Humphrey Jennings' first film as a director, a brief overview of the British postal service.

A narrator recounts the state of Great Britain near the end of WWII via a visual diary for the titular baby boy born in September 1944.

A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.

This experiment was a “prestige advertisement” for Shell Motor Oil. As conventional animation became dominated by Walt Disney, many...

One of the last voyages of a commercial sailing ship on a trip from Cornwall.

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

The history of wheels, roads and vehicles from cavemen to the coming of steam.

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings. The GPO Film Unit was a subdivision of the UK General Post Office. The unit was established in 1933, taking...

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings about transatlantic telecommunications. This film is structured around British attempts to prevent the V1...

Londoners prepare for war.

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings. 'Cargoes' follows the S.S. Ionian as she delivers her cargo around the Mediterranean - her final peacetime...

As the subtitle of the film suggests - The Story of a Post Card from Manchester to Graffham - this journey is very much focused on the process of...

A story of sacrifice, in which organised labour voluntarily relinquishes hard-won workplace rights after being asked "to give up by choice what...

The harvest of a pre-war British farm.

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

Documentary by Humphrey Jennings

The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.

In preparation for the celebration of the 1951 Festival of Britain, this short film was released to assure British citizens of their nation's place...

A documentary by Humphrey Jennings about the modernization of coal mines in Cumberland.

Edward R. Murrow narrates Humphrey Jennings' short documentary about life in England during wartime.

The Eighth Army famously adopted a German song in the Western Desert. The Crown Film Unit traces the journey of Lili Marlene from its composition in...

The Eighty Days is a short, simple piece which follows an air attack over British soil and the efforts to stop it, leading to the prevention of a new...

Piano virtuosa Myra Hess performs Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, known as the "Appassionata", on stage in a concert hall....

Osbert Lancaster, James Fisher, John Ormston and Ralph Vaughn Williams meditate on the history and culture of England.

The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.

A Defeated People is a 1946 British documentary short film made by the Crown Film Unit, directed by Humphrey Jennings and narrated by William...

1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.

British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style showing the lives of firefighters through the Blitz in World War...

A depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the...

In preparation for the celebration of the 1951 Festival of Britain, this short film was released to assure British citizens of their nation's place...

Osbert Lancaster, James Fisher, John Ormston and Ralph Vaughn Williams meditate on the history and culture of England.

Short documentary on the use of the V-1 Flying Bomb during the German bombings of London.

The Eighth Army famously adopted a German song in the Western Desert. The Crown Film Unit traces the journey of Lili Marlene from its composition in...

A depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the...