Humphrey Jennings Movies

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

The harvest of a pre-war British farm.

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 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.

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

Industrial and social progress in post-war Europe.

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

A behind-the-scenes GPO Film Unit documentary (directed by Stuart Legg) that races from studio rehearsals and newsrooms to control rooms and...

Humphrey Jennings’s Crown Film Unit short on the summer 1944 V-1 “doodlebug” campaign, tracking a salvo from the coast toward...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Short documentary on the use of the V-1 Flying Bomb during the German bombings of London.

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

A concert short spotlighting Dame Myra Hess performing the first movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor,...