Humphrey Jennings Movies

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...

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.

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

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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.