Humphrey Jennings Movies

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

The Heart of Britain (1941) depicts wartime life in the North and Midlands, contrasting tranquil countryside with the grit of industry. From...

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

Spare Time is a 1939 British film directed by Humphrey Jennings for the GPO Film Unit, and made for the 1939 New York World's Fair. It is 15 minutes...

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

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...

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

Londoners prepare for war.

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...

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

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...

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

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.

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

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

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

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