Catalogue des films de « Humphrey Jennings »

Timothy, born on the fifth anniversary of the start of World War Two, represents the future, giving hope for those recently at war. The narrator fills in the history, but this is the transitional phase between war and peace, with war effectively...

The source for "The Silent Village" was the Nazis' massacre of one hundred seventy male inhabitants of the mining village of Lidice during the German invasion of Czechoslovakia. Jennings moved the story to a Welsh mining village, using local...

Durant le Blitz, le travail des pompiers bénévoles. "Aucun autre film britannique réalisé pendant la guerre, documentaire ou film de fiction, n'a su parvenir à une telle sincérité poignante, ou évoquer les hommes en guerre avec un tel sens...

Jennings' most celebrated film represents the pinnacle of his associative non-narrative methods of construction, using little commentary and only natural sounds to evoke a day in the life of Britain during the Blitz. Images of factory work are...

The film combines the quintessence of Jennings' love of England with a plea for help from the USA. It comprises seven short pieces of prose and poetry: William Camden, Milton, Blake, Browning, Kipling, Wordsworth and Abraham Lincoln. The...

Alors que les bombardements allemands s'étendent désormais à la totalité du territoire de l'Angleterre, Jennings se rend à Liverpool pour filmer les réactions de la population confrontée aux raids aériens.

Chaque soir, les Londoniens se préparent avec angoisse aux bombardements de l'aviation allemande. Chaque matin, ils reprennent pourtant le fil de leur vie quotidienne, dans les ruines de Londres.

Court métrage réalisé pour le ministère de l'Information, "Welfare of the Workers" s'attache à montrer combien la guerre pèse sur la condition des travailleurs.

Spring Offensive takes a look at the first year of agricultural Britain's war. It is set within a rural community in East Anglia where Jennings himself had felt so at home and its story is of the reclaiming of derelict land under the War-Ag food...

Spare Time is a Mass Observation film about the ways in which people in the industrial areas of Britain spend their free time. Its very title suggests how removed Jennings was from the dominant philosophy of Griersonian documentary because this...