Humphrey Jennings Movies

Londoners prepare for war.

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

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

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...

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

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...

The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have...

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

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

Humphrey Jennings’s Crown Film Unit short on the summer 1944 V-1 “doodlebug” campaign, tracking a salvo from the coast toward...

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

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

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

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...

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 harvest of a pre-war British farm.

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.

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