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Directed by Humphrey Jennings
A pioneer of the war documentary movement, Humphrey Jennings films are amongst the greatest British works of all time. Fires Were Started, his most celebrated film, is an exemplar of the subtly moving and intimate film-making he achieved despite producing what was merely government propaganda. Jennings had an entraordinary ability to discover th... show more > Recommended Films directed by Humphrey Jennings
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The GPO Classics Collection: Britain At War - The First Days1939-40, Humphrey Jennings, Pat Jackson, Harry Watt, DVD Three GPO Film Unit documentaries showing the effect on the British people of the first 2 years of War. Features The First Days (Jennings, Jackson & Watt, 1939) which captures the strange atmosphere of preparation for war, The Front Line (Watt, 19...
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The GPO Classics Collection: Britain at War -Under Fire1940-41, Humphrey Jennings, Harry Watt, Davi MacDonald, DVD Five films from the GPO Film Unit in wartime. Features 'Britain Can Take It' (Jennings & Watt, 1940), which American journalist Quentin Reynolds took directly to President Roosevelt in the White House where it was used to swing public opinion behi...
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 The GPO Classics Collection: Britain at War -Under Fire1940-41, Humphrey Jennings, Harry Watt, Davi MacDonald, VHSPAL Five films from the GPO Film Unit in wartime. Features 'Britain Can Take It' (Jennings & Watt, 1940), which American journalist Quentin Reynolds took directly to President Roosevelt in the White House where it was used to swing public opinion behi...
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 At The Coal Face1948, Humphrey Jennings, DVD With miners and management as actors, The Cumberland Story, directed by Humphrey Jennings, is a true account of the modernisation of the mines in the 1940s. It includes a dramatic reconstruction of the Ladypit disaster of 1837, when callous mine-o...
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 Our Country / The Dim Little Island1940s, Humphrey Jennings, John Eldridge, DVD Two films from the 1940s Britain series: 'Our Country', directed by John Eldridge, in which the steadfastness of the British people are a source of reassurance to a sialor on leave. With stirring words by Dylan Thomas, rousing music from William A...
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 The True Story Of Lili Marlene / Before The Raid1943, Humphrey Jennings, DVD Marius Goring narrates Humphrey Jennings' film of the extraordinary story of Lale Andersen, the singer whose record became a battle song for troops on both sides in World War II. Goebbels detested the song and contrived to have Andersen placed in ...
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I Was A Fireman (Humphrey Jennings Collection)1942-44, Humphrey Jennings, DVD Features three films from the man described by Lindsay Anderson as perhaps 'the only true poet of the English cinema': Listen to Britain, Diary for Timothy (both from the newly-made BFI 2004 prints) and I Was a Fireman. In Listen to Britain, Jenni...
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