Humphrey Jennings Movies

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

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

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

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.

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

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

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

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

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

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

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...