Humphrey Jennings Movies

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

The harvest of a pre-war British farm.

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

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