Humphrey Jennings Movies
- 1940
London Can Take It!
London Can Take It!6.61940HD
A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.
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- 1934
The Glorious Sixth of June
The Glorious Sixth of June01934HD
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...
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- 2025
Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain
Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain02025HD
Documentary about Humphrey Jennings, an English documentary filmmaker from the 1930s to 1950.
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- 1939
The First Days
The First Days71939HD
Londoners prepare for war.
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- 1934
Post-Haste
Post-Haste4.91934HD
Humphrey Jennings' first film as a director, a brief overview of the British postal service.
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- 1935
Coal Face
Coal Face6.0881935HD
1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.
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- 1939
Spare Time
Spare Time6.21939HD
Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings
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- 1935
BBC: The Voice of Britain
BBC: The Voice of Britain01935HD
A behind-the-scenes GPO Film Unit documentary (directed by Stuart Legg) that races from studio rehearsals and newsrooms to control rooms and...
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- 1939
Cargoes
Cargoes5.51939HD
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...
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- 1941
This Is England
This Is England71941HD
Edward R. Murrow narrates Humphrey Jennings' short documentary about life in England during wartime.
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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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- 1940
Spring Offensive
Spring Offensive6.51940HD
Humphrey Jennings’s wartime short rallies Britain’s countryside, showing fields ploughed up from fallow, seed sown, and crops raised on...
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- 1938
Speaking from America
Speaking from America5.51938HD
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...
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- 1950
Family Portrait
Family Portrait5.81950HD
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...
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- 1937
Farewell Topsails
Farewell Topsails61937HD
One of the last voyages of a commercial sailing ship on a trip from Cornwall.
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- 1942
Listen to Britain
Listen to Britain6.1531942HD
A depiction of life in wartime Britain during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the...
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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
The Farm
The Farm6.21938HD
Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings
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- 1938
Making Fashion
Making Fashion61938HD
Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings
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