Humphrey Jennings Movies, Biography & Filmography
Known for: Directing
Birthday: August 19, 1907
Age: 43
Died: September 24, 1950
Place of birth: Walberswick, United Kingdom
Popularity: 0.5
About Humphrey Jennings
Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings (19 August 1907 – 24 September 1950) was an English documentary filmmaker, celebrated for his poetic and visually striking portrayals of British life during World War II. A co-founder of the Mass Observation social research organization, Jennings blended avant-garde techniques with a deep sense of national identity, creating films that captured the resilience and spirit of the British people. His most acclaimed works, including Listen to Britain (1942), Fires Were Started (1943), and A Diary for Timothy (1945), showcase his unique ability to fuse documentary realism with lyrical storytelling. Film critic and director Lindsay Anderson described him as "the only real poet that British cinema has yet produced."
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A Diary for Timothy
1945★6.8
Spring Offensive
1940★6.7
Family Portrait
1950★6.2
English Harvest
1938★6.8
Making Fashion
1938★8.0
Fires Were Started
1943★6.1
The True Story of Lili Marlene
1944★7.5
London Can Take It!
1940★6.6
Words for Battle
1941★6.5
The Silent Village
1943★6.8
Farewell Topsails
1937★6.5
V.1.
1944★6.5
The Dim Little Island
1949★9.0
Penny Journey
1938★6.4
A Defeated People
1946★6.3
Listen to Britain
1942★6.2
Cargoes
1939★7.0
Speaking from America
1938★6.0
The Eighty Days
1944★6.5
Welfare of the Workers
1940★7.0
Spare Time
1939★6.4
Myra Hess
1945★5.3
The First Days
1939★7.0
This Is England
1941★8.0
The Cumberland Story
1948★8.0
The Heart of Britain
1941★6.7
S.S. Ionian
1939★6.8
The Story of the Wheel
1934★6.3
Locomotives
1934★7.0
Post-Haste
1934★5.3
The Farm
1938★6.5
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