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Kanopy
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44
6.5
/1923/
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/46/
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/62/
3.3
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51
/317/

Listen to Britain (1942)
A depiction of life in wartime Britain 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.
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Kanopy
58
39
6.4
/1444/
60
/57/
60
/48/
3.3
/1561/
43
/489/

Fires Were Started (1943)
British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style showing the lives of firefighters through the Blitz in World War II.
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64
28
7.0
/800/
62
/14/
66
/22/
3.5
/674/
56
/81/

A Diary for Timothy (1945)
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.
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Kanopy
67
24
7.0
/754/
67
/15/
66
/24/
3.4
/851/

London Can Take It! (1940)
A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.
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16
7.0
/210/
70
/2/
68
/4/
3.5
/225/
60
/54/

The Silent Village (1943)
The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.
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62
10
6.3
/217/
58
/9/
62
/13/
3.4
/305/

Spare Time (1939)
Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings
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6.3
/61/
55
/4/

Penny Journey (1938)
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 sorting, transporting and delivering the postcard in question.
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7.1
/78/
61
/6/
60
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This Is England (1941)
Edward R. Murrow narrates Humphrey Jennings' short documentary about life in England during wartime.
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7.1
/75/
60
/1/
70
/2/

The First Days (1939)
Londoners prepare for war.
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6.4
/89/
60
/2/
60
/3/

Farewell Topsails (1937)
One of the last voyages of a commercial sailing ship on a trip from Cornwall.
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6.3
/81/
75
/2/
62
/5/

The Farm (1938)
Life during a season on a pre-war British farm.
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6.8
/68/

The Dim Little Island (1949)
Osbert Lancaster, James Fisher, John Ormston and Ralph Vaughn Williams meditate on the history and culture of England.
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6.1
/55/
60
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60
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Welfare of the Workers (1940)
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."
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6.2
/49/
60
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55
/2/

The Story of the Wheel (1934)
The history of wheels, roads and vehicles from cavemen to the coming of steam.
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6.0
/39/
55
/2/

Speaking from America (1938)
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.
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6.1
/63/
60
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60
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Locomotives (1934)
Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings
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5.9
/34/
55
/2/

Cargoes (1939)
Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings. 'Cargoes' follows the S.S. Ionian as she delivers her cargo around the Mediterranean - her final peacetime journey.
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6.5
/40/

The Eighty Days (1944)
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 bomb being sent to France.
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5.8
/72/
30
/2/

Myra Hess (1945)
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. Hess performs only the first movement of the sonata.
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6.6
/53/
65
/2/

Spring Offensive (1940)
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 on responsibilities of the Empire Marketing Board Film Unit. Headed by John Grierson, it was set up to produce sponsored documentary films mainly related to the activities of the GPO.
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5.8
/51/
60
/1/

Making Fashion (1938)
Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings
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6.3
/44/
10
/2/

The Cumberland Story (1948)
A documentary by Humphrey Jennings about the modernization of coal mines in Cumberland.
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43
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6.1
/132/
10
/1/
58
/4/

Family Portrait (1950)
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 in the world and of their own places within that nation. Illustrative scenes of farming, science, political, and social life are juxtaposed to present a familiar and reassuring image of Britain.
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6.7
/93/
60
/1/
67
/5/

The Heart of Britain (1941)
Documentary by Humphrey Jennings
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62
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6.6
/281/
60
/1/
62
/8/

Words for Battle (1941)
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 War II. This short film serves as both propaganda and as a rallying cry to the British people.
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52
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5.6
/139/
51
/8/
48
/13/

Post-Haste (1934)
Humphrey Jennings' first film as a director, a brief overview of the British postal service.
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6.6
/49/
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60
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V. 1 (1944)
Short documentary on the use of the V-1 Flying Bomb during the German bombings of London.
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6.4
/68/
60
/1/
61
/8/

A Defeated People (1946)
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 immediate aftermath of World War II. The narration explains what is being done – and what needs to be done – both by the occupying Allied forces and the German people themselves to build a better Germany from the ruins.
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6.4
/55/
60
/1/
62
/4/

S.S. Ionian (1939)
Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings
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6.6
/77/
60
/3/

English Harvest (1938)
The harvest of a pre-war British farm.
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6.7
/64/
60
/1/

The True Story of Lili Marlene (1944)
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 imagined post-war East End, full of light, music and bananas for sale.


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