Humphrey Jennings Movies

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

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

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

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

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

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

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

Documentary by Humphrey Jennings

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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