John Grierson Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

A boy pursues his ambition to be a jockey

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

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

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

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.

The life and work of the documentary pioneer.

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

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

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

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

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

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

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

Marionette parody of Buster Keaton.

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