Humphrey Jennings Movies

Londoners prepare for war.

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

A Defeated People is a 1946 British documentary short film made by the Crown Film Unit, directed by Humphrey Jennings and narrated by William...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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....

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

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

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...

The harvest of a pre-war British farm.

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...

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...

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings