Movies: Humphrey Jennings

A depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the turmoil and privation caused by the war, all without narration....

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

A Defeated People is a 1946 British documentary short film made by the Crown Film Unit, directed by Humphrey Jennings and narrated by William Hartnell. The film depicts the shattered state of Germany, both physically and as a society, in the immediat...

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

This experiment was a “prestige advertisement” for Shell Motor Oil. As conventional animation became dominated by Walt Disney, many European filmmakers turned to puppets as an alternative, and Lye enlisted the help of avant-garde friends such as Hum...

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

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....

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

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings about transatlantic telecommunications. This film is structured around British attempts to prevent the V1 missiles from getting through to their targets....

The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have children; the Potts are unconventional and unhappy, without children....

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

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

Londoners prepare for war....

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

Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence Olivier, illuminate documentary footage of England during its defense against the Nazi blitz in World...

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

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

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

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 post-WW1 Hamburg, via Radio Belgrade and the Afrika Korps, through victory in Tunisia and Sicily, to ...

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC....