Humphrey Jennings Movies

  • 1938
    The Farm

    The Farm

    The Farm

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    Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

    The Farm
  • 1937
    Farewell Topsails

    Farewell Topsails

    Farewell Topsails

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

    Farewell Topsails
  • 1938
    Speaking from America

    Speaking from America

    Speaking from America

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

    Speaking from America
  • 1934
    The Story of the Wheel

    The Story of the Wheel

    The Story of the Wheel

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

    The Story of the Wheel
  • 1940
    Spring Offensive

    Spring Offensive

    Spring Offensive

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    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...

    Spring Offensive
  • 1944
    The True Story of Lili Marlene

    The True Story of Lili Marlene

    The True Story of Lili Marlene

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    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...

    The True Story of Lili Marlene
  • 1940
    Welfare of the Workers

    Welfare of the Workers

    Welfare of the Workers

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

    Welfare of the Workers
  • 1941
    This Is England

    This Is England

    This Is England

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

    This Is England
  • 1934
    The Glorious Sixth of June

    The Glorious Sixth of June

    The Glorious Sixth of June

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    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...

    The Glorious Sixth of June
  • 1944
    The Eighty Days

    The Eighty Days

    The Eighty Days

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    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...

    The Eighty Days
  • 1948
    The Cumberland Story

    The Cumberland Story

    The Cumberland Story

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

    The Cumberland Story
  • 1949
    The Dim Little Island

    The Dim Little Island

    The Dim Little Island

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

    The Dim Little Island
  • 1938
    English Harvest

    English Harvest

    English Harvest

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    The harvest of a pre-war British farm.

    English Harvest
  • 1938
    Making Fashion

    Making Fashion

    Making Fashion

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    Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

    Making Fashion
  • 1939
    Cargoes

    Cargoes

    Cargoes

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

    Cargoes
  • 1934
    Locomotives

    Locomotives

    Locomotives

    61934HD

    Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

    Locomotives
  • 1945
    Myra Hess

    Myra Hess

    Myra Hess

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    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....

    Myra Hess