Humphrey Jennings Movies

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

Documentary by Humphrey Jennings

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

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...

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...

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

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

A Defeated People is a 1946 British documentary short film made by the Crown Film Unit, directed by Humphrey Jennings and narrated by William...

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings. 'Cargoes' follows the S.S. Ionian as she delivers her cargo around the Mediterranean - her final peacetime...

A story of sacrifice, in which organised labour voluntarily relinquishes hard-won workplace rights after being asked "to give up by choice what...

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

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

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

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...

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

Piano virtuosa Myra Hess performs Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, known as the "Appassionata", on stage in a concert hall....

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings about transatlantic telecommunications.