Humphrey Jennings Movies

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...

The harvest of a pre-war British farm.

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

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

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

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

The Eighty Days is a short, simple piece which follows an air attack over British soil and the efforts to stop it, leading to the prevention of a new...

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

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

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

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

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. This film is structured around British attempts to prevent the V1...

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

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