John Grierson Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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...

Life on a farm at springtime, including blossom, piglets and ducklings.

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

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

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.

Marionette parody of Cherry Kearton.

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

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

Trade Tattoo went even further than Rainbow Dance in its manipulation of the Gasparcolor process. The original black and white footage consisted of...