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.

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

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

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

Osbert Lancaster, James Fisher, John Ormston and Ralph Vaughn Williams meditate on the history and culture of England.

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings about transatlantic telecommunications.

Documentary by Humphrey Jennings

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

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

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

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

A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.

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

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

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

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

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...

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

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

Londoners prepare for war.