Humphrey Jennings Movies

The harvest of a pre-war British farm.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Life during a season on a pre-war British farm.

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

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...

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...

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

Londoners prepare for war.

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

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...

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

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

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...