John Grierson Movies

Developed from John Grierson's opportunistic recruitment of the well-known director and anthropologist Robert Flaherty, Industrial Britain provides a...

Ambitious documentary chronicling the cultural life and religious customs of the Sinhalese and the effects of advanced industrialism on such customs.

Animated shapes dance to Cuban music. This was one of the first animations to be painted directly onto the film.

A celebration of the importance of the British countryside.

The life and work of the documentary pioneer.

This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the...

The story of the North Sea herring fleets from Yarmouth and Lowestoft to Shetland.

Short documentary about British education in the late 1930s.

Filmed in Uganda, Man of Africa was assembled by legendary documentary producer John Grierson. The film depicts the mass migration of the Bakija and...

The history of Scotland and the factors that have shaped the character of its people.

Documentary following an Edinburgh fishing trawler, the "Isabella Grieg".

A look at the work of Glasgow's Medical Officer of Health.

Early documentary, slung together from footage depicting the first invasion of North America by Europeans, designed to show industrial technology's...

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.

A short GPO documentary showing how undersea telephone cables are repaired.

Humphrey Jennings' first film as a director, a brief overview of the British postal service.

Marionette parody of Buster Keaton.

The building and launch of a new long-wave radio transmitter - just as the TV age is about to be born.

Highlights of the life of John Grierson, documentary film-maker