Humphrey Jennings Movies

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

Osbert Lancaster, James Fisher, John Ormston and Ralph Vaughn Williams meditate on the history and culture of England.

Humphrey Jennings’s Crown Film Unit short on the summer 1944 V-1 “doodlebug” campaign, tracking a salvo from the coast toward...

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

A concert short spotlighting Dame Myra Hess performing the first movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor,...

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...

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

The harvest of a pre-war British farm.

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

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

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

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

This experiment was a “prestige advertisement” for Shell Motor Oil. As conventional animation became dominated by Walt Disney, many...

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...

The history of wheels, roads and vehicles from cavemen to the coming of steam.

A concise museum short that traces the evolution of the steam locomotive, using the Science Museum (London)’s model railway collection to chart...

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

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings