John Grierson Movies

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

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

A boy pursues his ambition to be a jockey

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

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...

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

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...

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...

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.

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

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

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

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

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

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

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...

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

Marionette parody of Buster Keaton.

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