Humphrey Jennings Movies

Shot in mid-1939 as S.S. Ionian (also shown as Her Last Trip), Humphrey Jennings’s GPO short follows the Royal Mail steamer on a last peacetime...

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...

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

The harvest of a pre-war British farm.

A concert short spotlighting Dame Myra Hess performing the first movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor,...

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

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

Humphrey Jennings’s wartime short rallies Britain’s countryside, showing fields ploughed up from fallow, seed sown, and crops raised on...

Life during a season on a pre-war British farm.

Documentary short 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...

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...

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

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.

A concise museum short that traces the evolution of the steam locomotive, using the Science Museum (London)’s model railway collection to chart...

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

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

How long-distance telephone calls are made, from the UK to the USA. We see operators, miles of wires, and the amplification of voice transmitted...

A behind-the-scenes GPO Film Unit documentary (directed by Stuart Legg) that races from studio rehearsals and newsrooms to control rooms and...