John Grierson Movies

The building and launch of a new long-wave radio transmitter - just as the TV age is about to be born.

At Balloch Moss mine in Scotland, water comes through a seam bringing a torrent of mud into the mine and flooding the pit shaft, resulting in 118 men...

Short documentary about weather forecasting, emphasising the importance of the GPO's telecommunications systems.

Highlights of the life of John Grierson, documentary film-maker

When Canada entered World War II, the National Film Board suddenly had an urgent new mission—and hundreds of women stepped forward, helping to...

A boy pursues his ambition to be a jockey

Ada Shore (Diane Hart) arrives at Skerryvore University in Scotland in search of her long-lost uncle Connell O’Grady (Joseph Tomelty), who was...

Documentary following an Edinburgh fishing trawler, the "Isabella Grieg".

A look at how Scotland's water is being used to bring power to the Highlands.

Life on a farm at springtime, including blossom, piglets and ducklings.

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.

Norman McLaren was a cinematic genius who made films without cameras, and music without instruments. He produced sixty films in a stunning range of...

Marionette parody of Tom Mix.

A record of an educational experiment in the small town of Chesterfield in Derbyshire.

Smog was the deadly downside of Britain's industrial might, as this powerful and revealing documentary spells out. In 1937, coal was Britain's...

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

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

Short documentary about British education in the late 1930s.

Documentary about shipbuilding on the Clyde. In 1960, Glasgow and other towns and ports on the River Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland, were still...

Marionette parody of Buster Keaton.