Humphrey Jennings Movies

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.

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

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...

British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style showing the lives of firefighters through the Blitz in World War...

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings. The GPO Film Unit was a subdivision of the UK General Post Office. The unit was established in 1933, taking...

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

Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence...

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

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

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

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

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

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...

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

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

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

Londoners prepare for war.

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings