Humphrey Jennings Movies

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.

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.

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

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...

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 history of wheels, roads and vehicles from cavemen to the coming of steam.

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

Londoners prepare for war.

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

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

Piano virtuosa Myra Hess performs Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, known as the "Appassionata", on stage in a concert hall....

Rubber rooftops and bomber-size fly paper suspended in the sky? Gad Sir, bring on the Blitz! David Low’s success as a cartoonist in the 1930s...