John Grierson Movies

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

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

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

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Marionette parody of Cherry Kearton.

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

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

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...

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

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

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

The history and modern day industry of Stirlingshire, Scotland.

Marionette parody of Tom Mix.