John Grierson Movies

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

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

1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.

A silent film by John Grierson. It tells the story of Britain's North Sea herring fishery.

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

Seeking her long lost uncle, Ada Shore arrives at Skerryvore University to find him working under another name as the Gate Keeper. Ada is mistaken by...

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."

Grierson set out to make "propaganda," and this film--with it's voice-over proclaiming the great value of the British industrial worker, without a...

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

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

A record of an educational experiment in the small town of Chesterfield in Derbyshire.

The life and work of the documentary pioneer.

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

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

Short documentary about British education in the late 1930s.

Short documentary showing the workings of a large London sorting office.

Documentary about shipbuilding on the Clyde. In 1960, Glasgow and other towns and ports on the River Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland, were still...

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

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