Humphrey Jennings Movies

A depiction of life in wartime England 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.

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.

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

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

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

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...

Londoners prepare for war.

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...