Show results for
Explore
In Stock
Artists
Actors
Authors
Format
Theme
Genre
Rated
Studio
Specialty
Decades
Platforms
Size
Color
Deals
- Critics' Choice Collection
- Sinister
- Digicom
- Comedy Teams
- Marx Brothers
- Three Stooges
- Little Rascals
- Martin Lewis
- Laurel Hardy
- Abbott Costello
- Adult Animation Sale
- 2000s TV
- 20th Century Studios
- Fox Cinema Archives
- 88 Films Sale
- Acorn
- Action and Adventure
- Agatha Christie
- AMC RLJ
- Arrow
- Fred Astaire
- Avatar
- Baby Boomers Sale
- Ball Vance
- Barbie
- Batman
- BBC
- Ingrid Bergman
- Biographies
- Biography
- Blue Underground
- Blu-ray Under 15
- Humphrey Bogart
- Bowery Boys
- Marlon Brando
- Marlon Brando
- Sandra Bullock
- Burns Allen
- James Cagney
- Charles Chaplin
- Classic Flix
- Cohen Media
- Claudette Colbert
- Comedy Sale
- Gary Cooper
- Kevin Costner
- Joan Crawford
- Crime
- Crime
- Tom Cruise
- Bette Davis
- Day Hudson
- DC
- Robert De Niro
- Deadpool
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- Marlene Dietrich
- Disasters
- Disney
- Doctor Who
- Eureka Classics
- Family Favorites Sale
- fan favorites
- Fantasy Sale
- Colin Farrell
- Film Noir
- Henry Fonda
- Harrison Ford
- Jodie Foster
- Friends
- Full Moon
- Fun City Sale
- Clark Gable
- Gangsters
- Greta Garbo
- Judy Garland
- Ghostbusters
- Godzilla
- Golden Age
- Golden Girls
- Cary Grant
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Gene Hackman
- Handmade by Robots
- Tom Hanks
- Hanna Barbera
- Harry Potter
- Goldie Hawn
- HBO
- Katharine Hepburn
- Audrey Hepburn
- Hitchcock
- Hope Crosby
- Anthony Hopkins
- Indiana Jones
- James Bond
- Jurassic Park
- Gene Kelly
- Grace Kelly
- Margot Kidder
- Nicole Kidman
- Kino Classics
- KL Studio Classics
- Hugh Laurie
- Lionsgate
- Little Mermaid
- Looney Tunes
- Lord of the Rings
- Mandalorian
- Marvel
- MGM
- MHZ
- Liza Minnelli
- Marilyn Monroe
- MPI
- MPI Horror
- New and Recent Releases
- Nightmare Before Christmas
- Olive
- Laurence Olivier
- Paramount Horror
- Paramount
- Paramount BR 4K Sale
- Paramount Sale
- Paramount 4K Sale
- Paramount Presents
- PBS
- Gregory Peck
- Michelle Pfeiffer
- Brad Pitt
- Powerhouse Indicator
- Puzzles
- Robert Redford
- Reel Vault
- Julia Roberts
- Ginger Rogers
- Romance
- Mickey Rourke
- Rowan Martin
- Kurt Russell
- Meg Ryan
- Zoe Saldana
- Susan Sarandon
- Randolph Scott
- Scream Factory
- Seinfeld
- Tom Selleck
- Sepia Sale
- Severin
- Shout Select
- Shudder
- Sony Pictures
- Spider-Man
- Spies
- Sports
- Barbara Stanwyck
- Star Trek
- Star Wars
- James Stewart
- Stranger Things
- Meryl Streep
- Sundance IFC
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Terrifier
- Toy Story
- Spencer Tracy
- Transformers
- TV Action
- TV Animation
- TV Comedy
- TV Complete Series Sale
- TV Crime
- TV Drama
- TV Horror
- TV Medical Drama
- TV Sci-fi
- TV Variety
- TV Westerns
- Ultraman
- DVD Under 10 Sale
- Universal Studios
- Universal Studios Monsters
- VCI
- Vertical
- Clint Walker
- Walking Dead
- Walt Disney
- Warner Feature
- Warner
- Denzel Washington
- John Wayne
- Sigourney Weaver
- Mae West
- Weta Workshop
- Wheeler Woolsey
- Kate Winslet
- Reese Witherspoon
- Wonka
- Michelle Yeoh
- Consumer Products
- Collectible Magazines
- Steelbooks
- Arcade 1Up
- My Arcade



Humphrey Jennings was one of the greatest figures in the celebrated British documentary film movement, and he is most remembered for the way his work reflects the concerns and conditions of World War II-time in the United Kingdom. He is undoubtedly of great historical importance, but the ultimate justification for the present gathering of work is that Jennings was a wonderful filmmaker who made uniquely beautiful films. Contained within this one man was a seemingly impossible array of artistic abilities. He had a poets command of film language, a painters eye for evocative imagery and composition, a musicians ear for rhythm and tone and counterpoint, a Soviets sense of juxtaposition, a journalists nose for the concrete and the factual, and a compassionate mans love for the people he portrayed. It may seem paradoxical that an artist of such positively romantic parts should have labored almost exclusively in the documentary realm, with all that it implies of subordination to subject and sponsor. But Jennings particular talents emerged at a time of very particular need, and that seeming subordination to a cause is in fact the key to the continuing resonance of his work. In the incongruous coupling of the Cambridge aesthete and the British propaganda machine, both parties turned out to be anxious to compromise for the sake of the union. In these pictures, Jennings impressive aesthetic arsenal helped to expand the scope and the vocabulary of documentary. In turn, the documentary idea, especially in time of war, served to focus and direct his aesthetic impulses to public ends. The result was a short, shining, perfect marriage. FILMS INCLUDED IN COLLECTION: London Can Take It! (1940 - 9 Minutes) Directed by Harry Watt and Humphrey Jennings Words For Battle (1941 - 8 Minutes) Compiled and Directed by Humphrey Jennings Spoken by Laurence Olivier Listen To Britain (1942 - 18 Minutes) Written, Edited, and Directed by Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister Fires Were Started (1943 - 70 Minutes) Alternate Title: I Was a Fireman Written and Directed by Humphrey Jennings A Diary For Timothy (1943 - 39 Minutes) Directed by Humphrey Jennings Family Portrait (1951 - 26 Minutes) Written and Directed by Humphrey Jennings Bonus Film: Myra Hess Playing the First Movement of Beethovens Sonata in F Minor No. 57 (Apassionata) (1945 - 9 Minutes) Directed by Humphrey Jennings Please note that the sound of these films is of less than normal quality by todays standards. However, we used the best material available from the British licensors and are proud to offer them for their historical and artistic value. Format: NTSC Produced for DVD by David Shepard From the Blackhawk Films Collection Presented by Flicker Alley
Title: | Listen to Britain and Other Films by Humphrey Jennings |
---|---|
Genre: | Documentary |
Starring: | Chesney Allen, Bud Flanagan |
Director: | Humphrey Jennings |
---|---|
Studio: | Flicker Alley |
Attributes: | Manufactured on Demand, NTSC Format |
Release Date: | 3/14/2017 |
Product Type: | DVD |
---|---|
Rated: | NR |
UPC: | 889290091987 |
Item #: | 1796948X |
Street Date: | 3/14/2017 |
---|---|
Original Language: | ENG |
Run Time: | 179 minutes |
---|
-
CreditsChesney Allen
Bud Flanagan
-
DirectorsHumphrey Jennings