Humphrey Jennings Movies

A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.

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.

Londoners prepare for war.

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

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

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

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

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...

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...

A depiction of life in wartime Britain during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the...

A behind-the-scenes GPO Film Unit documentary (directed by Stuart Legg) that races from studio rehearsals and newsrooms to control rooms and...

Humphrey Jennings’s wartime short rallies Britain’s countryside, showing fields ploughed up from fallow, seed sown, and crops raised on...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...