John Grierson Movies

A boy pursues his ambition to be a jockey

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

Drama-documentary, reconstructing a real incident in which a trawler got into difficulties in a North Sea storm. Released 7th March 1938.

Legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock pays tribute to the "father of the documentary", John Grierson, exploring what made his work so...

Short documentary about weather forecasting, emphasising the importance of the GPO's telecommunications systems.

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...

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

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

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

Marionette parody of Buster Keaton.

Norman McLaren was a cinematic genius who made films without cameras, and music without instruments. He produced sixty films in a stunning range of...

Short documentary about British education in the late 1930s.

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

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

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

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

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.

A BFI-produced documentary about documentary filmmaker John Grierson speaking about documentary.

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

In this parody of Sherlock Holmes, the Great Detective goes to an opium den of inequity in the dangerous London district of London and challenges...