Humphrey Jennings Movies

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings about transatlantic telecommunications. This film is structured around British attempts to prevent the V1...

Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence...

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...

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

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

The harvest of a pre-war British farm.

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 by Humphrey Jennings

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

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...

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

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

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

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....

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

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings