John Grierson Movies

Short documentary about British education in the late 1930s.

A short GPO documentary showing how undersea telephone cables are repaired.

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

A film made by the British General Post Office (GPO) in 1933, promoting the automation of telephone exchanges.

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

Filmed in Uganda, Man of Africa was assembled by legendary documentary producer John Grierson. The film depicts the mass migration of the Bakija and...

In this parody of Sherlock Holmes, the Great Detective goes to an opium den of inequity in the dangerous London district of London and challenges...