Humphrey Jennings Filmes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Londoners prepare for war.

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...

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

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

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

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

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

The harvest of a pre-war British farm.

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