Humphrey Jennings Movies

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

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...

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...

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

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

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

The harvest of a pre-war British farm.

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

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

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....

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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