Humphrey Jennings Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

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

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

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

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