Humphrey Jennings Movies

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...

Londoners prepare for war.

Rubber rooftops and bomber-size fly paper suspended in the sky? Gad Sir, bring on the Blitz! David Low’s success as a cartoonist in the 1930s...

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

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

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...

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

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

The harvest of a pre-war British farm.

Industrial and social progress in post-war Europe.

The Heart of Britain (1941) depicts wartime life in the North and Midlands, contrasting tranquil countryside with the grit of industry. From...

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

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

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

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

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

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

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

The history of wheels, roads and vehicles from cavemen to the coming of steam.