John Grierson Movies

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

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

A film made by the British General Post Office (GPO) in 1933, promoting the automation of telephone exchanges.

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

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

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...

Marionette parody of Cherry Kearton.

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.

A celebration of the importance of the British countryside.

An overview of the shepherd's life during the lambing season.

“Catching up with gossip, inspecting new ducklings, clambering over gates, walking across meadows - the life of a postman appears idyllic, but...

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...

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

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

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

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 and modern day industry of Stirlingshire, Scotland.

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

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

Marionette parody of Tom Mix.