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...

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.

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

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.

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

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

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

Londoners prepare for war.

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

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.

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

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...

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...

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings