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1935
BBC: The Voice of Britain
BBC: The Voice of Britain0 1935 HD
An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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2000
Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain
Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain5.8 2000 HD
Documentary about Humphrey Jennings, an English documentary filmmaker from the 1930s to 1950.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: James Purefoy
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1934
The Glorious Sixth of June
The Glorious Sixth of June0 1934 HD
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...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Humphrey Jennings
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1934
Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs
Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs5 1934 HD
The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Bruce Winston
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1943
Fires Were Started
Fires Were Started6.1 1943 HD
British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style showing the lives of firefighters through the Blitz in World War...
Genre: Drama
Cast: George Gravett
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1942
Listen to Britain
Listen to Britain6.1 1942 HD
A depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Chesney Allen
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1941
Words for Battle
Words for Battle6.2 1941 HD
Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Laurence Olivier
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1934
Post-Haste
Post-Haste4.8 1934 HD
Humphrey Jennings' first film as a director, a brief overview of the British postal service.
Genre: Documentary
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1945
A Diary for Timothy
A Diary for Timothy6.6 1945 HD
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.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Michael Redgrave
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1940
London Can Take It!
London Can Take It!6.524 1940 HD
A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Quentin Reynolds
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1936
The Birth of the Robot
The Birth of the Robot6.818 1936 HD
This experiment was a “prestige advertisement” for Shell Motor Oil. As conventional animation became dominated by Walt Disney, many...
Genre: Animation
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1938
English Harvest
English Harvest6 1938 HD
The harvest of a pre-war British farm.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: A.G. Street
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1939
Cargoes
Cargoes5.5 1939 HD
Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings. 'Cargoes' follows the S.S. Ionian as she delivers her cargo around the Mediterranean - her final peacetime...
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1934
Locomotives
Locomotives6 1934 HD
Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings
Genre: Documentary
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1934
The Story of the Wheel
The Story of the Wheel5.5 1934 HD
The history of wheels, roads and vehicles from cavemen to the coming of steam.
Genre: Documentary
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1937
Farewell Topsails
Farewell Topsails6 1937 HD
One of the last voyages of a commercial sailing ship on a trip from Cornwall.
Genre: Documentary
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1938
Penny Journey
Penny Journey5.5 1938 HD
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...
Genre: Documentary
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1938
Speaking from America
Speaking from America5.5 1938 HD
Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings about transatlantic telecommunications. This film is structured around British attempts to prevent the V1...
Genre: Documentary
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1938
The Farm
The Farm5.7 1938 HD
Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings
Genre: Documentary
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1938
Making Fashion
Making Fashion6 1938 HD
Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings
Genre: Documentary
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1939
Spare Time
Spare Time6.1 1939 HD
Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings
Genre: Documentary
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1939
S.S. Ionian
S.S. Ionian6.2 1939 HD
Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings
Genre: Documentary
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1939
The First Days
The First Days7 1939 HD
Londoners prepare for war.
Genre: Documentary
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1940
Welfare of the Workers
Welfare of the Workers6 1940 HD
A story of sacrifice, in which organised labour voluntarily relinquishes hard-won workplace rights after being asked "to give up by choice what...
Genre: Documentary
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1940
Spring Offensive
Spring Offensive6.5 1940 HD
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...
Genre: Documentary
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1941
The Heart of Britain
The Heart of Britain6.7 1941 HD
Documentary by Humphrey Jennings
Genre: Documentary
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1943
The Silent Village
The Silent Village6.8 1943 HD
The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.
Genre: Documentary
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1950
Family Portrait
Family Portrait5.8 1950 HD
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...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Michael Goodliffe
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1948
The Cumberland Story
The Cumberland Story0 1948 HD
A documentary by Humphrey Jennings about the modernization of coal mines in Cumberland.
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1941
This Is England
This Is England6 1941 HD
Edward R. Murrow narrates Humphrey Jennings' short documentary about life in England during wartime.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Edward R. Murrow
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1944
The True Story of Lili Marlene
The True Story of Lili Marlene6 1944 HD
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...
Genre: Documentary
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1944
The Eighty Days
The Eighty Days0 1944 HD
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...
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1945
Myra Hess
Myra Hess3 1945 HD
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....
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1949
The Dim Little Island
The Dim Little Island0 1949 HD
Osbert Lancaster, James Fisher, John Ormston and Ralph Vaughn Williams meditate on the history and culture of England.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: James Fisher
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1943
The Silent Village
The Silent Village6.8 1943 HD
The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.
Genre: Documentary
Cast:
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1946
A Defeated People
A Defeated People6 1946 HD
A Defeated People is a 1946 British documentary short film made by the Crown Film Unit, directed by Humphrey Jennings and narrated by William...
Genre: Documentary
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1935
Coal Face
Coal Face6.1 1935 HD
1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: W.H. Auden
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1943
Fires Were Started
Fires Were Started6.1 1943 HD
British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style showing the lives of firefighters through the Blitz in World War...
Genre: Drama
Cast: George Gravett
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1942
Listen to Britain
Listen to Britain6.1 1942 HD
A depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Chesney Allen
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1950
Family Portrait
Family Portrait5.8 1950 HD
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...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Michael Goodliffe
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1949
The Dim Little Island
The Dim Little Island0 1949 HD
Osbert Lancaster, James Fisher, John Ormston and Ralph Vaughn Williams meditate on the history and culture of England.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: James Fisher
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1944
V. 1
V. 16 1944 HD
Short documentary on the use of the V-1 Flying Bomb during the German bombings of London.
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Cast: Fletcher Markle
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1944
The True Story of Lili Marlene
The True Story of Lili Marlene6 1944 HD
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...
Genre: Documentary
Cast:
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1942
Listen to Britain
Listen to Britain6.1 1942 HD
A depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Chesney Allen
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