Humphrey Jennings Movies
- 1941
Words for Battle
Words for Battle6.21941HD
Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence...
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- 1949
The Dim Little Island
The Dim Little Island01949HD
Osbert Lancaster, James Fisher, John Ormston and Ralph Vaughn Williams meditate on the history and culture of England.
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- 1943
Fires Were Started
Fires Were Started61943HD
British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style showing the lives of firefighters through the Blitz in World War...
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- 1945
A Diary for Timothy
A Diary for Timothy6.6361945HD
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.
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- 1944
The True Story of Lili Marlene
The True Story of Lili Marlene61944HD
The Eighth Army famously adopted a German song in the Western Desert. The Crown Film Unit traces the journey of Lili Marlene from its composition in...
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- 1934
Locomotives
Locomotives61934HD
A concise museum short that traces the evolution of the steam locomotive, using the Science Museum (London)’s model railway collection to chart...
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- 1934
The Story of the Wheel
The Story of the Wheel5.51934HD
The history of wheels, roads and vehicles from cavemen to the coming of steam.
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- 1938
The Farm
The Farm6.21938HD
Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings
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- 1948
The Cumberland Story
The Cumberland Story01948HD
A documentary by Humphrey Jennings about the modernization of coal mines in Cumberland.
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- 1936
David Low Animation
David Low Animation01936HD
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...
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- 1943
The Silent Village
The Silent Village6.81943HD
The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.
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- 1938
Making Fashion
Making Fashion61938HD
Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings
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- 1941
The Heart of Britain
The Heart of Britain6.81941HD
The Heart of Britain (1941) depicts wartime life in the North and Midlands, contrasting tranquil countryside with the grit of industry. From...
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- 1945
Myra Hess
Myra Hess31945HD
A concert short spotlighting Dame Myra Hess performing the first movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor,...
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- 1936
The Birth of the Robot
The Birth of the Robot6.81936HD
This experiment was a “prestige advertisement” for Shell Motor Oil. As conventional animation became dominated by Walt Disney, many...
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- 1946
A Defeated People
A Defeated People6.11946HD
A Defeated People is a 1946 British documentary short film made by the Crown Film Unit, directed by Humphrey Jennings and narrated by William...
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- 1940
Welfare of the Workers
Welfare of the Workers61940HD
A story of sacrifice, in which organised labour voluntarily relinquishes hard-won workplace rights after being asked "to give up by choice what...
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- 1939
S.S. Ionian
S.S. Ionian6.21939HD
Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings
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